Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

Week Ending 3-8-08 Pine Island Sound - This week saw an extreme shift in fishing conditions. The big winds blew in on Friday, and stayed over the weekend. Early in the week we had great fishing. Weather was a little more stable, with low tide mornings, coming in to high enough wa more...
Capt. George Howell - Pine Island Sound

Big South Wind On The Front Made A Big Bite in Sanibel Waters - To say it has been a windy week would be an understatement! Back to back cold fronts have made it difficult to get out at all. I did make it out on Friday. What a day! A big front was scheduled to come through during the night on Friday. As Fr more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Week Ending 3-01-08 - Well, another full week was punctuated and reduced to two days on the water this week. That's all to common this time of year. Monday's trip was from my new friend Wayne Wulff, who I fished with back during Christmas week. Wayne had his good fri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Week Ending 2/23/08 - Fishing this week was excellent, and for the most part the catching was, as well. First up on Tuesday were Chuck Kindt and his ten year old son, Chip, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The factors that would control the fishing were an extreme low more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Fishing report for SW Florida Feb. 24th., 2008 Snook has been heating up with the warmer waters. We've been finding a few in the 20lb. range. White bait, shrimp, cut ladyfish, flies and jigs all will work. Fish the mouths of creeks, canals, pot h more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/16/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had two trips to report on this week. The people and the fishing were great on both days, but the catching was great on one day, and tough on the other. Monday I more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/09/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had four trips on the books for this week, but only got to run three. I moved my Friday trip to the following Monday because bad weather was threaten more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/02/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had a pretty full week scheduled, but by the time it was over it wound up being two trips. Monday brought my first trip with Dan Pease, of Elkhart, Indiana. It wou more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/26/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was another short week for us guides. Heavy fog several days kept many of us in port. I wound up fishing Tuesday, and conducting a dockside seminar on Thursday. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Fishing report for SW Florida Jan. 14th., 2008 Redfish has been very good. A few going into the 30 class. I've been doing best on tides that have good current. Shrimp, shiners & cut bait has been working the best for me. The schools can be from more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound