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The Gulf Coast's Ultimate Angling Experience!

Best Rates on the Gulf Coast!! $600 (1-2 anglers) for 5 hours. $50 for each additional angler up to 4 total anglers. Includes Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Navarre and Pensacola Beach. Call (850) 748-4368 or email ericholstman@hotmail.com. *(Adjusted for fuel prices on July 1, 2022)

Welcome to Redfish University in Pensacola, Florida

Redfish University is a unique opportunity for beginner, intermediate and advanced level anglers to improve their skills in the art of shallow water fishing for redfish, speckled trout, pompano and flounder. Redfish U. specializes in the challenging realm of sight fishing for redfish with the use of artificial baits. Redfish U. also targets speckled trout, flounder, pompano and bull redfish on traditional guided fishing trips. Our extraordinary curriculum insures that no detail is overlooked. From bait choices and line selection; to casting presentation and approaching your target, you will receive unsurpassed angling instruction. Challenge yourself, broaden your angling knowledge and invest in your fishing future at Redfish University.

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Apr26

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 14-26, 2013

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. After some home PC issues, we’re back and with a brand new computer. The fishing at Redfish University has been superb the last week and a half and we’re running instructional and guided trips nearly everyday! The redfish and speckled trout have come alive and we’re starting to see some nice numbers of flounder as well. Most mornings, a limit of quality speckled trout will be in the cooler in thirty minutes with some really solid redfish mixed in. Topwater Sebile Bongas to start the morning, followed by Sebile Stick Shadds and then we’ll clean up the rest with Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs. We even performed a surf fishing instructional for pompano. Probably off this weekend and then the next ten weekdays are booked solid! Thanks again to everyone for choosing Redfish University for your inshore guiding service on the Gulf Coast! Take care, E...

Apr15

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 12,13 2013

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Last week was a fantastic week of fishing at Redfish University with many new clients choosing Redfish University for their fishing-catching and instructional needs. The speckled trout and redfish have come alive in the southern bays and huge catches of both species can be expected here at Redfish University. Sebile Bonga Minnows, Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads and Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs have done a number on these very aggressive fish. Most fish were released while some hit the cooler for dinner that evening. Took today off but another nice run of trips Tuesday-Friday of this week and most of May is full. We still have a handful of days available in late April and May so don’t delay. Thank you again to all the new clients and the huge number of repeat clients alike that have made this Spring fishing season the best yet! Take care, E...

Apr11

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 4,5,8,9,10

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. The extremely busy Spring season here at Redfish University has continued even after Spring Break 2013 and our masses of redfish and speckled trout anglers are being treated to some excellent action with both species. An added bonus has been our ability to send the sheepshead and bull redfish bottom fishing charters to a few great local guides in exchange for some anglers specifically requesting artificial only services focusing on shallow redfish and speckled trout. This has worked out beautifully with some excellent local captains including Brant Peacher, Justin Hinote and Brad King. Back to the action. Each morning and late afternoon we are finding increased activity with topwater baits, like the Sebile Bonga Minnow, which is an excellent sign that both species are now aggressively looking for food. As always, the Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads in camo and the Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs are both outstanding choices. A bunch of catch and release trips which is nice and a few redfish and speckled trout hit the cooler for cookouts. We will take...

Apr04

Penn/Spiderwire Tour and trips at Redfish University-Apr.1-3, 2013

Redfish University is the place to be for light-tackle, artificial only redfish and speckled trout action!! The last few days of fishing at Redfish University have been excellent with great numbers of redfish and speckled trout for our anglers. Yesterday’s weather forced us to push back some guide trips back later in the week so we got to spend more time down in Destin for the Penn/Spiderwire Tour with our friends from Pure Fishing. We unveiled some new Penn products and had a very nice turnout on a very raining day down in Destin, FL. Monday and Tuesday’s afternoon Redfish University trips were very productive with Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and the Berkley Havoc Grass pigs both taking a huge number of quality speckled trout and redfish in shallow water and wind-blown edges. Towards dust, we even produced some nice fish with the Sebile Bonga Minnow topwater baits and this trend will continue as the water temperature continues to rise. More Penn/Spiderwire promotion work throughout the week and afternoon Redfish University guide trips through Saturday. Again, a packed Spring season...

Apr01

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-March 26-30, 2013

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Lots of fishing and catching here at Redfish University. It’s been a HUGE Spring here at Redfish University with repeat clients and new anglers alike. So busy in fact, we’re cutting down on our weekend guiding as we can pack 5-7 Redfish University instructional and fish-catching trips into during normal business hours. This is a welcome adjustment for many reasons. We’ve had some huge swings in the weather with very cold temperatures followed by some stable, seasonal temperatures as of late. One thing has remained constant and that is great numbers of redfish and speckled trout. We’ve begun our descent into the middle and lower bays as our groups of bait and schools of mullet have followed accordingly. Finding some topwater bites now on Sebile Bongas and Stickshadds and as always, Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads will clean up the rest of both species later in the morning. Catches remain in the 25-40 count for speckled trout with some in the 20-23″ range. For the redfish, we’re finding 8-12 per outing in all sizes. Lots...

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