Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/30/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Fishing was about as hard as it get this week. For me, at least! The red tide lingered, the fresh continues to come down the river, and I actually heard the media interviewing some business more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/23/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only got to run two of the four trips I had scheduled this week. So, it was another typically slow week. And, if things aren’t slow enough, we now have the red tide back in the Sound! more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/16/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey As I mentioned in last week’s report, my one trip this week was a donated trip to Operation Open Arms, an organization formed by my friend Capt. John “GiddyUp” Bunch for the benefit of our so more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEN ENDING 9/2/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey As I mentioned in the previous report, I had only one trip on the books again this week. It was a trip with my old friend of many years now, Marty Dietz, and his beautiful girlfriend, Janice. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/2/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Like most everyone I’ve talked to, I had only one trip again this week. The weather was threatening and the tide was outgoing, but my first trip with Steven and Stephanie Keith was a blast. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/26/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Slow is still the operative word. I only have one trip to talk about this week. It was a really nice day with my old friend Jim Dougall, who lives in Cape Coral. Jim is now 70 and has sur more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/19/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Man, is this a slow summer. I can see it in the restaurants, motels, stores, and on the streets. I did manage to get in two trips. The first trip was on Tuesday, when I did a two boat tri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/5/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The red tide seems to be behind us now. And, even on some pretty poor tides, the fishing was pretty good this week. Bill Palda, over from the east coast, was first up on Monday. Bill was the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/29/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey What was supposed to be a six day work week wound up being four when all was said and done. The red tide is still around, but the situation has improved, and we were able to keep bait alive more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/21/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Since I was off last week for this reporting period, I wasn’t going to write a report. But, after considering how much fun I had on a fishing trip up in Sarasota, I decided to go ahead an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound