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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 |
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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 |
