Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Report for Week Ending 2/23/08 - Fishing this week was excellent, and for the most part the catching was, as well. First up on Tuesday were Chuck Kindt and his ten year old son, Chip, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The factors that would control the fishing were an extreme low more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/16/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had two trips to report on this week. The people and the fishing were great on both days, but the catching was great on one day, and tough on the other. Monday I more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/09/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had four trips on the books for this week, but only got to run three. I moved my Friday trip to the following Monday because bad weather was threaten more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/02/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had a pretty full week scheduled, but by the time it was over it wound up being two trips. Monday brought my first trip with Dan Pease, of Elkhart, Indiana. It wou more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/26/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was another short week for us guides. Heavy fog several days kept many of us in port. I wound up fishing Tuesday, and conducting a dockside seminar on Thursday. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/12/08 by Capt. Butch Rickey Only one trip to talk about this week. In the last three weeks we've gone from record warm weather, to record cold, and back to record warm. Fishing has been very toug more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/29/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey Christmas week was a good one with three trips with great customers and good fishing. And, the weather was fantastic! The week began on Monday with Sam Crosby Jr. an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/22/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only got out one time this week. It was with my old friend and favorite fishing buddy Dr. John Hitt, over for some R & R from UCF. John was exhausted from a very more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/15/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey Southwest Florida fishing report: Flats and backcountry are Good! I managed to run two out of three scheduled trips this week. Bait is getting tough, the fishing more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FLORIDA FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/08/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey I managed to get out just once this week, with my long-time friend Aly Ward, who has just completed her move to Fort Myers, and is now officially a Floridian. Aly's so more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound