Pine Island Sound Fishing Reports

It Was a Week of Juggled Days, Fog, High Pressure, & Poor Tides - Problems with fog continued into the first of this week, prompting some schedule changes. My friend Andy Mount and daughter Rachel and I sat at the dock waiting on the fog to lift until around 9:30 Sunday morning, which was altering my plans for fis more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SW Florida - Fishing report for SW Florida Feb. 18th., 2009 Redfish: As you all probably know, we have had a very cold winter. The water temperatures for most of the winter was in the 60's. The weather seems to be changing in a more favorable direction. Ge more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

It Was a Jam Packed Week Full of Good Fishing and Great Anglers! - It was my first full week in a long time. And, I mean full. Six days! Boy, am I out of fishing shape! It was the first week of good weather following the big cold spell we had, and we had pretty good tides to go along with the weather. Monday more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Foggy days in February - I fished four days this week that I had to use my GPS to navigate thru the bay, it made it interesting and kept a lot of locals off the water. There is still a good number of big trout to be had and they seem to be on the move from the cold days we h more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

A Whole Week of Very Cold Weather and Big Barometer - There is no report for the week ending 2/7/09. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Getting back to normal weather - After a cold and windy week we are warming up,trips on friday and saturday produced nice trout, jacks, lots of ladyfish and a few undersize snook. I have been fishing potholes on the dead low tides and canals in the middle of the day. On Monday and T more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

It Was a Short Week of Good Fishing With Great Guys! - It was another abbreviated work week, but a week of great fun with some great guys, fishing cold water with artificials. The week began Sunday with John Ford, over from Delray Beach. We'd been blown out by the big cold front that had come through more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Hot trout bite before cold front - Today I am fishing with Greg Erwin, we are fishing potholes in south Pine Island Sound for trout. The last few weeks have been a steady dose of extra low tides early with a lower than average high. We are using soft baits and suspending plugs. In Jan more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

A Whole Week of Very Cold Weather and Big Barometer - There is no fishing report for Pine Island Sound for the week ending 1/24/09. Near freezing lows most of the week, along with wind and a high barometer kept me in the office and warm! more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Nothing To Report This Week! - There is no fishing report for Pine Island for the week ending 1/10/09. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound