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2009-04-26
2:24 PM
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Snook Season Winding Down In Southwest Florida - With only a couple days left of snook season I cannot believe how fast the short two month season has come and gone. It was one of the windiest ones in recent memory, but still pretty productive.
This past week was no different, the ea more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-22
8:50 PM
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To Say It Stunk Would Be Putting It Mildly! - To say the week ending April 18th stunk, would be an gross under-exaggeration! You can probably still smell it from where you are! First, it was a week of poor tides, which by Thursday and Friday were reminiscent of a flat-lined heart monitor. I g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-20
6:55 PM
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Good Time To Fish In Southwest Florida - Finally the wind let up this week to a very fish-able breeze. And the fish responded with a bite that started a little slow early in the week but really got rolling into the weekend. Getting back on strong tides also helped especially for getting more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-19
8:26 AM
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Big Snook Highlight the end of Spring Break - Fishing report for the week ending 3/18, as spring break comes to a end it has been a great one for big snook. I have seen a lot more oversized fish this year than last. Pictured at the top of the page longtime client Paul Rotseart with his personal more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-15
7:13 PM
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Snook and Sea Trout bite good with strong south wind - Fishing report for week ending 4/11, spring break has me fishing all around Pine Island Sound,San Carlos Bay and Matlacha Pass. There have been good numbers of snook around the 27 inch range with oversized fish and a few slot each day, all taken on more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-12
10:19 AM
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A Dreadfull Slow Bite In the Second Week of April! - Another big cold front and a week of full moon tides made this one of the slowest bites I've seen in a long time.
The week began on Monday with Jim Szabo, a great guy I fished with back in February. He brought along his friend Charley, whom he war more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-07
9:24 AM
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Strong South winds make for good snook and redfish bite - Fishing report for week endin 4/5, with strong south winds and higher than normal tides fishing oyster bars and mangrove shorelines has been good. With the Saddix family we caught snook up to 4-6 lb. and redfish up to 8 lbs.on live shinners.There are more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-04
6:58 PM
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Wind and Poor Tides Again the Order of the Day! - Wind was again a factor this week, as were poor tides toward the end of the week. By Thursday the forecast was for 31 knots, and that's just time to stay at the dock. It was bad enough Tuesday and Wednesday, blowing near 25 knots!
First up on Tu more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-04-02
4:21 PM
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SW Florida - Fishing report for SW Florida
April 2nd., 2009
Redfish: Are on fire when you get the right tide. The water temperature is closing in on the high 70's which will only make the fishing better. A few going into the 30 class. I've been doing best more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound |
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2009-03-30
9:44 AM
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How quickly the weather can turn a full week into crap! - How quickly the weather can turn a full week into crap! We fished for three days is wind gusting to 25 MPH. By Thursday morning the wind was out of hand. Some of us put our boats back on the trailers and went home. Others went out to try to get t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
