Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/26/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Slow is still the operative word. I only have one trip to talk about this week. It was a really nice day with my old friend Jim Dougall, who lives in Cape Coral. Jim is now 70 and has sur more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/19/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Man, is this a slow summer. I can see it in the restaurants, motels, stores, and on the streets. I did manage to get in two trips. The first trip was on Tuesday, when I did a two boat tri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/5/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The red tide seems to be behind us now. And, even on some pretty poor tides, the fishing was pretty good this week. Bill Palda, over from the east coast, was first up on Monday. Bill was the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/29/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey What was supposed to be a six day work week wound up being four when all was said and done. The red tide is still around, but the situation has improved, and we were able to keep bait alive more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/21/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Since I was off last week for this reporting period, I wasn’t going to write a report. But, after considering how much fun I had on a fishing trip up in Sarasota, I decided to go ahead an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/15/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Red tide is here! The biggest challenge for the week was keeping live bait just that........alive! There were other frustrations, too. But, we did manage to catch some fish. My first tri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/8/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Weather was once again a factor in getting trips run this week. We've had deluge after deluge since Thursday morning, and there's lots of water standing everywhere. I had a fun trip with more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: July 5th, 2006 Snook, The water temperatures are in the 80's and the snook are on the bite! The white bait is everywhere and with the warmer temperatures and that means grea more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/1/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey After a short vacation I was back on the water for one trip this week. It was a good day. My Thursday trip was with my old friend Bob McGuire, of Line Lexington, Pennsylvania. His company more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/17/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey As you might expect, the week was pretty much a blow out, with lots of wind and rain from tropical storm Alberto that passed to our north. We were in the path of the feeder bands for several more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound