Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

Fun With Old Friends, And HOW! - Week ending 1/18/14........ After being down with a bug for about two weeks, I did get back on the water for three days of fishing in this week. The week began on Monday with my good friend Frank Faust, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He wanted me to more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

A Hot Trout Bite Means Good Ole Fashioned Fun! - Week ending 1/04/14....... Cold fronts and the holidays got in the way of work the first half of the week. I moved my long time friend Roland Hartich from early in the week behind a cold front, to Thursday, where we would be fishing the south win more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Nothing Better Than Fishing With Old Friends! - Week ending 12/28/13........... It's Christmas week. I had three trips scheduled. One, on the 22nd, with Eric Hubbs, which we had to reschedule. The other two were with my long time friend and customer Russ Hubbard, whom I've been fishing with more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Pine Island Sound - Fishing report for Pine Island Sound Jan. 16th., 2014 Redfish: Has been good. There running on the small side. A few going over the 30 range. I've been doing best on any tide that has good current. Shrimp, shiners & cut bait has been working more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

SNOOKIN !! - Tuesday the SNOOK count was twenty-one.... Wednesday the count was 21 plus one.... Thursday 13 SNOOK came aboard.... My guarantee of SNOOK well assured.... Friday the bite slowed but SNOOK were big.... Many 30 inchers were caught....YO more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

Making New Memories With Old Friends - Week ending 12/7/13.......... Ran one trip and lost one this week. Between the economy and the season, things are very slow. I ran another trip from Chic Bruning's place on Captiva, with Tom Olson, of Madison, Wisconsin, who is good friends wi more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

A Fast Friendship On A Slow Day! - Week Ending 11/30/13........ Not a lot of fishing going on Thanksgiving week. I made a quick trip to Jacksonville to visit my life-long friend Nancy Holley, and join her on a huge oyster roast put on by one of her friends known as Gator Bob. Wha more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SNOOKIN - Tripping on mangroves looking for big SNOOK... Sure beats staring back at a book.... Sometime soon you gotta read my eyes... Casting artificials and what a surprise... Four over 30..we died and went to heaven... The boat headed home a more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

Good Fishing And Tour Through A Mangrove Tunnel - Week ending 11/23/13........... It was a very busy week, with a few trips, a long time friend in town, and a trip to Jacksonville. The week began though, on Sunday, with a great half hour tour over Pine Island Sound and Matlacha Pass on Kingf more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Anyone got SNOOK? - Some times the day just starts out so right.... Bill made his first cast and the line went tight. A 30 SNOOK turned the surface to white foam... The third cast brought a 32 SNOOK home... An hour later, a short distance away.... A 34 more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound