Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/1/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey This will go down as a record week for me, record in a negative way. I lost three of my trips this week; two to cancellations, and one to a no-show. In my fifteen years of guiding, I’ve neve more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Feb. 27th, 2003 Redfish, Now that the weather has gotten to be more seasonal and the water temperature is warming up. The redfish have come back on the bite. I have done more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/22/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a good week of fishing, but the catching was not always great. The front that came through Monday seemed to really shut things down, and bait became very tough to catch. I did have more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/15/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only had one trip this week, but it was a good trip, and a fun trip, with a couple of great guys, Peter Burnand, and his dad Burney. Looks like this will be the last of slow times for th more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/8/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Finally, we entered a warming trend that held on long enough to warm our water ever so slightly. The trout fishing was good, and by week’s end, the snook had begun to feed ever so reluctantly more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/1/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey After seeing some of the coldest weather in decades last week, we actually began a much needed warming trend this week. Gulf waters off the coast of Ft. Myers actually got into the high 50' more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/25/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey Cold fronts, cold water, and slow fishing continue to be the order of the day here. There seems to be no end to the cold weather. That pretty much leaves speckled trout and sheephead as o more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Jan. 20th, 2003 Redfish, The weather the last couple of weeks has given us cold front after cold front. The water temperature has dropped into the low 60's. We have done very well on some of the more extrem more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/18/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Winter just refuses to let go of her grip on Florida this year. It's been another week of cold, windy weather for the most part, and the fishing is still very slow. My friend Marc Denton a more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/11/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey Once again, due to poor weather and business conditions there is only one trip to talk about. It was a cold Tuesday morning when I met my old friend Marc Denton, who comes down from Lit more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound