Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/8/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey With seven days scheduled, it was a long week, even with Saturday lost to weather! It was a great week of fishing, but a tough week of catching for two reasons. First, the tides were terribl more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 4/1/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Seems this spring I’m seeing more new customers than usual. All but one trip this week was with new customers, save for one. All I can say is that I hope everyone in our business is fortunate en more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday, I had my first outing with Bob King and his good friend Paul Milquet, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was a great day of snooking. I began the day before the sun was up at the second sp more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Talk about a windy week! The ides of March are upon us with a vengeance! I hit the water Tuesday morning before 6 AM. The wind was howling out of the northwest at a good 25 MPH, and there more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 3/4/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The snook are turning on! It was a great week of snooking, and the average keeper size my customers landed this week was almost 9 pounds. Fun, fun, fun! After rescheduling my Monday trip for l more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/25/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was to be a five day work week, but Dr. John Hitt was forced to cancel our trip on Sunday because of his ever changing duties as president of University of Central Florida. I also moved my Mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday of this week saw the coldest weather of the year, after many days of weather almost as cold last week ushered in by the massive cold front that his the northeast so hard. The low Monday m more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Between the seemingly constant barrage of cold fronts and the very poor tides this week, I didn’t get on the water until Friday. At 45 degrees, it was a cold morning to be on the water, and the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/3/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Fishing began on Sunday, which is rare for me. You see, I had a guest Howard Gallagher, down from Maine, who had rented a room at the Fish Camp for three nights. Howard loves to fish the west co more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/28/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey I spent most of the week in Sarasota, again this week, and managed to get out on the water twice. I met my old friend John Wolfgang Franck for breakfast Monday morning, before hitting the wat more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound