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.
Jan17
For professional, credible and qualified Inshore Saltwater Fishing Instruction in Pensacola, Florida, Redfish University is your only choice. During a volatile weather month like January, we’ll gladly take four trips per week at Redfish University. We’ve had a nice stretch of warm weather and overcast skies here in Pensacola which has made fishing very comfortable for the masses of Redfish University clients and has made targeting redfish and speckled trout very, very easy. Today and yesterday afternoon, we were forced to postpone two trips due to rain, high winds and very cold temperatures but the regular locals always have the luxury of rescheduling at Redfish University. Huge catches of quality speckled trout has continued with 40-60 trout per trip including some large fish in the last few days in the 4-6# range. The redfish have been all over the place in location and in size. Most fish are being taken in less than 3′ of water near small groups of mullet. These fish will range from 17-33″ with most being inside the 18-27″ range. The most popular baits are...
Jan12
The week of the bass fisherman!! Redfish University ran some incredible Pensacola Fishing Charters and Instructional Charters over the last few days. The week was a bit challenging with spurts of inclimate weather but we managed to strategically pound out four great instructional trips and had to postpone one due to high winds and rain. The great thing about Redfish University instructional trips in the fact that our anglers are local(Mobile to Panama City) and can usually jump on an instructional guided trip in a moment’s notice and that was the name of the game this week. We mentioned bass anglers before; every group of anglers this week were recent transplants to the Pensacola and Destin area with all impressive backgrounds in bass fishing in the Southeast and up north. These guys just needed some areas and ideas!! For the two trips in Pensacola, we concentrated in local bayous for one trip and the other was a combination of a mid-bay and upper bay trips with several redfish and larger trout still being found areas that are typically outstanding...
Jan06
We had three instructional guides trip over the weekend here in Pensacola, Florida at Redfish University. What a beautiful start to 2013!! Each instructional Redfish University trip took place in completely different locations around the Pensacola Bay system but all trips had one thing in common… big numbers of quality speckled trout and redfish. As always, Redfish University’s instructional guide services are unsurpassed in knowledge, experience, professionalism and highly productive techniques and there continues to be a very high demand for Redfish University’s much sought after services throughout the Winter and into the Spring. During Saturday and Sunday’s double-booking, we had ideal conditions although both afternoon incoming tides were predictably a bit more productive. We’re still finding speckled trout in the 2-4# range on shallow 2-3′ flats near deeper dropoffs and ledges while the redfish in the 20-26″ range are as shallow as 9″ but more numerous in areas of 2-3′ of water. A combination of Berkley Gulp! baits, Johnson Gold Spoons and even small Sebile Bongas are responsible for all our catching success. In addition, very light(6-8#) Spiderwire...
Jan04
For Pensacola Fishing Charters, Redfish University is the place to be!!Happy New Year and Redfish University starts with a bang!! We’ve jumped out to a very quick start for the first week of 2013 at Redfish University with two instructional trips, a bull redfish trip and some Pro Staff work. For our instructional trips on Wednesday and today, we concentrated on the redfish, speckled trout, flounder and stripers in the upper reaches of Escambia and East Bay as well as some local bayous in the Pensacola area. With the colder recent temperatures and falling water temperatures, we’ve focused mostly on Berkley Gulp! baits and lighter fluorocarbon leaders to produce incredible numbers of quality speckled trout and legal redfish while the flounder and stripers have been a bonus catch at the moment. A combination of proven techniques including the standard jighead and the drop-shot rig have kept rods bent. For the bull redfish on Thursday afternoon, we targeted these giants in shallow clear water in lower Pensacola Bay. The Berkley Gulp! 4″ Shrimp has continued to be the main course...
Dec31
WOW!! What a massive 2012 at Redfish University!!! Thank you Redfish University anglers, clients, Pro Staff sponsors(especially Pure Fishing, Yamaha and Maverick Boat Co.) and fans for a fantastic 2012 fishing season. We’ve surpassed all of our goals for the year and ended the 2012 Redfish University at 223 instructional and guided trips for the year!!! In the process, Redfish University has provided the best angling education available on the Gulf Coast to hundreds of local anglers, traveling anglers and even a few local inshore charter-fishers. We’re looking forward to an even more successful 2013 season with many surprises in store. The last few instructional trips for redfish and speckled trout in 2012 were outstanding although a few mornings were painfully cold and some very difficult low water conditions. As always, we produced a big number of speckled trout up to 4# and quite a few redfish. We switched to some much smaller Berkley Gulp! baits and scaled down our leader diagram a bit to draw more strikes in the harsh conditions and rapidly falling water temperatures. Most bites...
Dec27
For Redfish University’s 220th fishing charter of the year, we played the shallow water game with the bull redfish in Pensacola Bay. Yesterday, we concentrated in the northern parts of the bay for another extraordinary instructional session with the legal redfish and quality speckled trout. For anglers who demand the best in saltwater angling instruction, Redfish U. is the only choice on the northern Gulf Coast. We’re taking the large redfish on the flats on a few great baits such as the Berkley Gulp! 4″ Shrimp and the Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads. For the speckled trout and redfish on our instructional sessions we will use a wide variety of baits from Berkley Gulp!, Sebile, Johnson and some new baits from Berkley Havoc including the Grass Pig in Watermelon, California and Swamp Gas. Some exciting new additions are coming to Redfish University in 2013. As Redfish U. continues to capture an ever-growing market share of the saltwater instructional guide niche as well as regular Redfish U. trips, we will bring on an Associate Professor and an additional 2013 23 Pathfinder...
