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2011-04-22
10:09 PM
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Southwest Florida Fishing for Redfish, Sharks, Snook and more - Strong tides with big afternoon highs gave us good opportunities for a host of fish around the waters of Pine Island. The bite wasn't always red hot, possibly due to the full moon, but fishing was good overall each day. A mixed bag of sea trout, Sp more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-14
12:08 PM
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The Bigger Redfish Are Showing Up On The Flats - What was to be a four day week was reduced to two days of fishing by another cold front. I rescheduled two trips, which we can do with local folks.
I certainly would have rescheduled or canceled my Monday trip had the weather forecast been accura more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-14
10:49 AM
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Spring report - Fishing report for SW Florida
April 14th., 2011
Finally, it looks as though Spring has arrived. With the warmer water it has brought us some gifts, like large schools of bait. When the bait arrives the big fish do too. I've been seeing some more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-10
11:25 PM
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Slammin with Snook, Redfish and Trout in Southwest Florida -
Over the week we targeted snook, trout redfish, Spanish mackerel and sharks around the waters of Pine Island. Despite several days with slow tides we still put together southwest Florida inshore slams that include snook, trout and redfish. Of th more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-04
7:41 PM
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Mother Nature was Nice - After a couple days of 20-30 mph winds last week Mother nature gave us a great day Thursday. Fishing was pretty slow the first hour until the incoming tide started moving in. We had a couple trout up to 18 inches and a spanish mackeral in the live we more...
Capt. Cliff Simer - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-03
10:20 AM
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Bad Weather Gets In the Way of Things! - I had three trips scheduled again for this week, but weather forced me to reschedule one of them. Man, am I glad I did. It was a very nasty day!
Ben Miller, of Tacoma, Washington, was first up on Tuesday. Ben had the misfortune of drawing his f more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-01
8:38 PM
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Trout, Snook, Redfish, Mackerel and more in Southwest Florida - After several weeks of perfect weather this past one was more of a challenge as poor tides and days of really strong winds and some rain gave us a challenge. Even so, fishing was good as our waters continue to warm as we move into one of my favorite more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-04-01
5:16 PM
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Snookin Hookin - With the north wind blowing plenty
We started with two trout-one over 20
An 8 lb jack crevalle put a bend in the pole
A 30 snook smashed the plug over a deep hole
Eight more Snook made us forget about the wind
The day was over, we were where w more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-03-29
9:10 PM
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Fishing Went from Good to Poor as the Week Progressed - I had three trips this week. Fishing got harder as the week progressed and the tides became poor, but the first part of the week was good.
First up on Sunday was Gordon Perkins, who has recently moved to Ft. Myers, and has his own Native Ultimate more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2011-03-24
10:31 AM
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A Full Week of Kayak Fishing for Trout, Redfish, and Flounder - It was a busy week of renewing old friendships and beginning new ones, with six days scheduled on the water. One with David Twigg and his Dad. Two trips with Kelly Mack and friends, and three with my friend Brent George. Brent and I only got to do more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
