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2003-03-23
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Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/22/03
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Capt. Butch Rickey
It was a full week replete with windy days, red tide, problems keeping bait alive, and great snook fishing. The weekly average was about five keeper snook per day of all the snook caught, as more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2003-03-21
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Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Spring Snook Redfish And Tarpon
The spring fling is on! Snook redfish trout and nighttime tarpon are cooperating well.
Redfish action has been good throughout the Charlotte Harbor area with big oversize fish being caught in good numbers. There a more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande |
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2003-03-15
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Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/15/03
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Capt. Butch Rickey
The week began with very poor tides, and predictably tough fishing. Yet, we had some great trips, lots of fun, and caught some nice fish. The catching improved as the tides improved. Bait more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2003-03-14
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Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - March Madness
Snook were boiling in the fast moving current on the point. They were taking advantage of the crippled scaled sardines that I threw in the likely spot. “I’m hooked up”, Bob shouted. “I’ve got one too”, his friend Larry yelled. I more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island |
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2003-03-13
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Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Chokoloskee Island and Everglades National Park
Fishing Report - March 13, 2003
Well it really is March. One day it blows and the next it doesn't. I have missed the last week of fishing due a nasty intestinal critter that has kept very more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City |
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2003-03-11
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Boys Back In Town!
Greetings;
Mother nature sent us some great weather last week and the fish responded. Large schools of bait have migrated into the area with the rising water temperatures. Permit, kings, cudas, spanish, and tarpon are all more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2003-03-09
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Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/8/03
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Capt. Butch Rickey
The big issue for us guides in Pine Island Sound this week was bait. After showing up on the flats real well, it disappeared. Bait was tough, and in fact I didn’t find any one day. As bait g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2003-03-04
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Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/1/03
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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 |
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2003-03-03
12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Arrives!
Greetings;
With water temperatures steadily on the rise our hopes of pelagic's like kingfish rise each day. The bait migration into the area has started. A few kings, permit, and even a sailfish have been hooked this past more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2003-03-02
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Jacks and Sharks!
This week was spent fishing out of Chokoluskee and Marco Island. The water has warmed into the 70's and live bait has moved into the area and some of the big preditors are already here.
Jacks dominated our catches out of both a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
