Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/1/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey This was a fantastic week of great fishing, and catching. It was marred only by one mechanical problem, and news of the worst kind. Monday was reserved for my friend Rusty Holme more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/24/00 It was a great week of snook fishing on the outside with lot of wonderful folks. It gets brutally hot out there this time of year, but the high speed action can make you forget your more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - This was supposed to be a week of vacation for me, but I booked my good friend Mike Schwartz way in advance for Monday and Tuesday before I even had my vacation on the calendar. I wouldn't have missed fishing with him even if I had known, as Mike i more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - It was the week of the full moon. Although the full moon brings good morning tides, it curses us with fish that have lockjaw. Our prime species, snook and redfish, are both very much nocturnal feeders. For several days either side of the full moon more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/29/00 It seems that every week I'm whining and complaining about the weather, in particular, the wind. Well, I'm sorry, but I guess I'm going to do it again. Will these fronts ever stop c more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/15/00 The weather here is still the issue. This is the longest March on record, now going on 45 days of fronts and winds. I'm ready for summer and the calm, still mornings of intense sno more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/18/00 This was the week of my wife's second surgery. I took three days off to be home with her, and had one cancellation. The result was that I only fished two days, and they were tough. Monday, my friend more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/26/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fishing this week was kind of hit or miss. There are lots of snook and trout around. The snook are big, the trout are mixed. The redfish are starti more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/19/00 by Capt. Butch Rickey I closed my report last week with the bad news of my wife's cancer. I want to open the report this week with a sincere thank you to all of you who have tak more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - We'll here we are again with not much more to talk about than the cold weather. I know, I know, you guys in the north country think we don't know what cold is down here, but it's just not true. when it's in the 30's and 40's here, with a cold wind more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound