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2011-06-06
9:48 PM
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Unusual Weather Pattern Finally Lifting in Southwest Florida - Finally, it appears a high pressure system that has hung over southwest Florida for the better part of the past week has finally lifted. The system brought northeast winds both day and night that really played havoc with our tarpon fishing off the be more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-06-05
10:50 AM
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Floating Seaweed Everywhere Made Fishing Hard - Just two trips this week. It was a fun one, but tons of floating turtlegrass made fishing hard.
My first trip on Sunday was with Art Harriott, from Miami, who I first fished with in April of 2010. This would be our first time in the kayaks, but more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-26
5:37 PM
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Nothing to Yak About! - Neither of the trips I had for the week ending 5/21/11, happened. One no-showed, and I had to postpone the other one. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-25
9:14 PM
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Tarpon, Sharks, Snook and more in Southwest Florida - Over the past week or so weather has dictated how and where we fish, and what we target. Of course it's tarpon time in southwest Florida, for many anglers that's the primary target.
When the weather allows and the seas are calm tarpon fishing has more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-15
9:24 PM
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Only one trip this week, but it was a fun one. - Report For Week Ending 5/14/11
Things are slowing down. Only one trip this week, but it was a fun one.
I met my fishing partner, Chris Heaphy, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at Castaways Marina at 6:30 Friday morning. Chris was already there more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-12
2:52 PM
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The Fish Were In A Funk, But It Was A Fun Week - Report For The Week Ending 5/7/11
I started the week off with an old friend, Jim Dougall, and his buddies Hilde and Helmut, in Jim's Action Craft. I hadn't met Helmut before, but Jim and Hilde are a couple of funny guys, and fun to be with. Helm more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-09
12:35 PM
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SW Florida - Fishing report for SW Florida
May 9th., 2011
Tarpon: There Here!! The first week of tarpon fishing was a bit spotty, due to some windy days and water clarity. It seems that has passed and I'm doing much better now and getting the hookups and more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-06
8:49 PM
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Windy Weather Fishing in Southwest Florida - We had to deal with wind much of the week fishing around Pine Island, but fortunately strong tides helped counter it and the bite wasn't too bad. We needed to adapt to the conditions Mother Nature dealt us each day and work around it to find and catc more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-05-06
5:37 PM
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Best Friends and New Friends - Report For The Week Ending 4/30/11
I had three trips on the books this week, but rescheduled Friday because of the threat of bad weather, which did materialize.
Jim McDaniel, of Springfield, Virginia, called me a couple of months ago with a p more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-23
9:35 AM
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Sharks Chasing Our Redfish - This was the one slow week I have during April, with only one trip. The next two weeks are busy.
The trip was on Friday with Bill Ozzie Oswald, of Chicago, Illinois. I met Ozzie at 6:30 AM at the Circle K at Summerlin and John Morris, as he an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
