Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Making A New Friend In Estero Bay - Report for Week Ending 8/6/11 Only one trip again this week, but considering the tide and conditions, it was a good one. My trip was on Friday, 8/5, with a great young man, Danial Veitia, from Miami. We had a horrid outgoing tide all morning l more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

A Trip With An Old Friend - Report For The Week Ending 7/30/11 After doing several private teaching seminars during July, I finally ran a trip during the last week. It was on Friday, and was with a long-time friend/customer Mike McMahon. We go back to 1999. Mike wasn't t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

It's Hot and Slow! - Sorry! There is no kayak fishing report for the week ending 7/16/11. There will be a report for next week, though. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Lots of Redfish In Estero Bay - Week Ending 7/02/11 I ran four trips this week. All were good, but one didn't produce much in the way of fish. The week began with Mike Burkee, who is the guy who bought my Talon. He's an awesome guy, and there couldn't have been a better, mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Big Redfish In Sarasota Bay - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/11/11 Only one trip this week, on Friday, just before leaving on vacation. I hurriedly penned the fishing report so I would have it done, and could do the rest on vacation, but somehow lost the whole report file. It' more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Sarasota

Floating Seaweed Everywhere Made Fishing Hard - Just two trips this week. It was a fun one, but tons of floating turtlegrass made fishing hard. My first trip on Sunday was with Art Harriott, from Miami, who I first fished with in April of 2010. This would be our first time in the kayaks, but more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Nothing to Yak About! - Neither of the trips I had for the week ending 5/21/11, happened. One no-showed, and I had to postpone the other one. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Only one trip this week, but it was a fun one. - Report For Week Ending 5/14/11 Things are slowing down. Only one trip this week, but it was a fun one. I met my fishing partner, Chris Heaphy, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at Castaways Marina at 6:30 Friday morning. Chris was already there more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

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

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