Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/26/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fronts just keep on coming! Here we are nearly done with April, yet we are still seeing winter cold fronts make it down to Florida to wreck our weather. It was a week of tough tides, so more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/19/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey For the first time this year we had beautiful weather all week long, and I actually got to run all six trips I had on the books. For the most part, fishing was very good. So were the tides. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/5/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey What was supposed to be a six day work week was reduced to three days by an evil, wicked, mean, and nasty cold front that came rumbling through here last Sunday. I brought with it record cold more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/22/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a full week replete with windy days, red tide, problems keeping bait alive, and great snook fishing. The weekly average was about five keeper snook per day of all the snook caught, as more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/15/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week began with very poor tides, and predictably tough fishing. Yet, we had some great trips, lots of fun, and caught some nice fish. The catching improved as the tides improved. Bait more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/8/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The big issue for us guides in Pine Island Sound this week was bait. After showing up on the flats real well, it disappeared. Bait was tough, and in fact I didn’t find any one day. As bait g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/1/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey This will go down as a record week for me, record in a negative way. I lost three of my trips this week; two to cancellations, and one to a no-show. In my fifteen years of guiding, I’ve neve more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/22/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a good week of fishing, but the catching was not always great. The front that came through Monday seemed to really shut things down, and bait became very tough to catch. I did have more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/15/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only had one trip this week, but it was a good trip, and a fun trip, with a couple of great guys, Peter Burnand, and his dad Burney. Looks like this will be the last of slow times for th more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/8/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Finally, we entered a warming trend that held on long enough to warm our water ever so slightly. The trout fishing was good, and by week’s end, the snook had begun to feed ever so reluctantly more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound