Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - WEAK OF WAITING FOR WILMA! by Capt. Butch Rickey By the time this week actually got here, what was supposed to have been three trips had degenerated into one! By the time my Tuesday trip came along, hurricane Wilma was already looming on the horiz more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 10/15/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had two trips on the books for this week, but only ran one. It was a tough one! I met my old friend Texas Wader Ron Hunter, on Thursday morning. Ron brought along his girlfriend Pat, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 10/8/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey Well, it was another week cut short by weather and luck. I was supposed to do four day with my long-time friend Dr. John Hitt. His duties as president at UCF are very demanding and changeable, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/24/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey Not much fishing going on this week. Why? How about hurricane Rita. She drove by just south of the Keys, and her proximity kept our days windy and rainy all week. Those who were fortunate eno more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 9/17/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey If I had to choose a title for this week's report, it would be Red Tide In The Morning, Redfish Take Warning! Although the red tide was awful here this week, the fishing for redfish was very g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/10/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a short work week of three days. Fishing was pretty good for the most part, although we weren't always catching what we were after. First up on Monday was my friend Dr. John Hitt. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/3/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey Back to work last week after being off for most of August. The heat, slow fishing, red tides, and the near passing of hurricane Katrina all combined to make it a good month to be away from th more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - NO FISHING REPORT. LAST WEEK OF SUMMER VACATION. BACK NEXT WEEK more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - Sorry! No fishing report this week! IT'S TOO HOT TO FISH!! more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/06/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only had two trips to report on for the week, but the fishing was about as good as can be expected for this time of year. The heat, nearly fresh water, and typical poor moving summer tides more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound