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.
Feb01
Pensacola Inshore Fishing Charters and Instruction at Redfish University. Classes were back in session today and yesterday at Redfish University after Wednesday’s postponed trip due to hazardous weather conditions. One group of clients are new residents to the Garcon Point area and today’s new client just moved to Mackey Cove. Each instructional trip took place in different locations but the results were the same; great instruction and tons of speckled trout and redfish. In both areas, we were met with semi-dirty water conditions and some manageable wind. The wind in the Winter is your friend! So are plastic worm rattles and fish whistles in stained water. Yesterday’s trip was definitely more consistent with nearly 50 quality speckled trip and 8-9 redfish in shallow water. Today was a bit more difficult and spotty but found plenty to keep us entertained. In fact, only one speckled trout this afternoon was under 15″ with most being 18-21″. Baits of choice included Berkley Jerkshads, Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs and Johnson 1/4oz Gold Spoons. Most fish were released and some hit the cooler. Looking...
Jan31
Pensacola Inshore Fishing Charters and Instruction at Redfish University-Jan. 28,29 2013– On Monday and Tuesday, we performed two awesome Redfish University instructional fishing trips here in Pensacola, Florida. On Monday, our anglers were interested in learning about the Winter/Spring redfish and speckled trout fishery in the Pensacola Bay system. These guys are recent transplants and very talented bass anglers but just needed some specific guidance on locations, tide info and bait selection. Needless to say, they received all the above and more! We started with some quality speckled trout on some shallow flats way to the south. The fish were hovering over some darker, muddy bottom areas and were more than willing to take Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs. We really got some nice fish on a few passes with some reaching the 22″ line and most over 18″. Threw some of those on the ice and took off for some shallow redfish action. Found the mullet and found the redfish. Stuck several fish in the 22-30″ range and threw some of those in the cooler....
Jan31
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University Jan. 24,25,26 2013. The month of January 2013 has been the highest in client volume and fish production since Redfish University’s creation. A normal January and February can be a slow stretch with perhaps a dozen fishing trips for each month. This Winter season, we’re seeing a significant rise in client booking for two reasons; Redfish University instructional guide trips and beautiful weather with many days in the 60′s and 70′s. We’re looking at twenty trips to date with seventeen trips requesting pure instructional guiding services. This is outstanding and thank you so much!! The angling knowledge in Pensacola continues to grow with hundreds of degrees earned at Redfish University. Late last week for our Thursday, Friday and Saturday trips, we conducted two instructionals and one sight fishing trip for bull redfish. We don’t consider bull redfish trips to be instructional but the shallow water aspect of these Redfish University trips certainly provide some detailed techniques and locational services. For the redfish and speckled trout instructionals, we actually spent most of our time...
Jan24
The instructional sessions for redfish and speckled trout at Redfish University in Pensacola, Florida just keep on coming. Redfish University continues to be the only plausible instructional guide service on the Gulf Coast for anglers seeking the best in education, location and techniques for inshore saltwater fishing. The weather has been fabulous and the redfish/speckled trout production and instruction has been even better. Both Tuesdays and Wednesdays trips were focused on a wide range of techniques, baits and locations depending on tides, weather conditions, wind speed and water clarity. During both trips, we started fast and furious to secure quick limits of speckled trout, a few redfish and even some small 2-3# stripers for the cooler and then proceeded to cover multiple areas, techniques and even some Spring-time areas a bit further south to give our clients a headstart once the warmer weather arrives. Sometimes our clients can be overwhelmed with such a plethora of information but at Redfish University, our clients receive a complimentary set of detailed and labeled GoogleEarth maps of areas targeted as well as a...
Jan22
It’s been an outstanding month for fishing and a high volume of instructional as well as regular guided trips at Redfish University. Late last week and over the long weekend, Redfish University performed some excellent redfish and speckled trout instructional guide trips here in Pensacola, Florida. The month of January has proven to be a very steady month with an average of four trips per week. Lots of bad weather days that have forced a few rescheduled trips but if this Winter is any indication of what the rest of the year will bring, we will far surpass our expectations again in 2013 and will be on track for the 300 trip mark! We had some great weather and tides over the weekend for our instructional purposes and the fish seemed to just fly into the boat. Guided some groups of pretty talented anglers, some new to the area and some that were frustrated with a sometimes difficult and inconsistent Winter fishery. Each trip yielded 30-50 speckled trout with most being quality, legal fish, a handful of redfish(inconsistent lately),...
Jan18
My 250 h.p. Yamaha VMAX SHO Four Stroke Gets The Mornings Off I spend most of the morning on the trolling motor, but the afternoons the engine gets worked hard running and gunning By Eric Holstman Yamaha Pro Staff This is the time of the year when my engine gets a lot of use on a regular basis, but often has the mornings off. I’ll start my day around 5:30 a.m. and have my customers meet me in Pensacola, then ride with me as we trailer my boat up to Blackwater River or some of the other rivers off Pensacola Bay, which is a 20- 30 mile run. It’s a real small area, so we’ll launch the boat and not have to run very far. It’s pretty cold in the morning, so there’s no reason to make that long run by boat. From the ramp, we may only run a mile or two, and then spend the rest of the morning on the trolling motor working the shorelines for seatrout and redfish. So my 250 h.p. Yamaha VMAX SHO...
