
2010-04-03 7:36 PM
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Southwest Florida Mackerel Action Non-Stop - You just knew once we had a few consecutive days of warm sunny weather something good was going to bust loose. Well it happened this week as Spanish mackerel invaded Charlotte Harbor in a big way. We've been catching macks for a couple weeks, but thi more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-29 11:47 AM
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With Spring Variety is the name of the Game - Fishing report for the week ending 3/28/2010
This week with some of the warmest water and air temperatures we have seen this year gave us a great variety of spring species. With the majority of this weeks trips being families and wanting to catch more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-28 10:08 PM
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Fish are Getting Bigger in Southwest Florida - Were getting there, slowly, but we are getting into spring like fishing. We had a few cool mornings and several windy days however overall fishing is getting better and larger fish are moving in.
Most of the week we were on slow two a day tides, more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-27 8:09 PM
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Snook are getting bigger - Snook fishing the last three days has brought 6-8 snook a trip with each day having fish over 30. The largest was a 34 beauty yesterday.
Using only artificial lures gave the novice fisherwoman a thrill of a lifetime as the 30 snook
leaped six more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-27 1:40 PM
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More Of The Same: Fronts and Rough Waters - It was a week of more of the same; cold fronts, wind and rain, and rough waters. I didn't get on the water until Thursday.
My trip was with Roger Pecha, his ten year old son Robert, and eighty year old father-in-law, of Clayton, Missouri. The more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-24 7:52 PM
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Snook Biting Again - Tuesday, after catching over 30 trout, we headed north to look for reds and possible snook.
We boated 5 out of seven snook hits but all were smalls.'
Wednesday after limiting out on trout, we caught 7 snook with the biggest going 27.
Since I gua more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-23 6:37 PM
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Spring is here and fishing is heating up - Fishing report for the week ending 3/21/2010
Weather has still dominated the month but warmer water in the mid sixties has the fishing starting to look more and more like spring.
Trips this week saw good trout fishing on the grass flats near th more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-22 8:39 PM
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Spring, Mackerel and Bait have arrived in Southwest Florida - Three good things happened this week, first we said good bye to one long winter and welcomed the arrival of spring (even though it's still kinda cool). Second, Spanish mackerel showed up all around the southern side of Charlotte Harbor and third more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-20 5:46 PM
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Cold Fronts, Cold Water, and Cold Bite Continue! - The seemingly constant cold fronts continue to bring, rain, cold, and cold water, and conspired to cut my week from four to two days of hard fishing.
The week began on Monday, with Richard Sergel, of Wellesley, Massachusetts. We were to fish Mond more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |

2010-03-17 11:05 AM
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Trout here, there & everywhere - Two trips this week in Pine Island Sound found trout in all potholes and inside cuts and passes.
The trout were up to 6 lbs.
Although I specialize in snook, the only game in town is trout and some redfish. Some snook in canal systems until dolp more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound |