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.
Nov02
Redfish University Fishing Charters in Pensacola, Florida just doesn’t slow down. Back from a little vacation time and had a very busy week of instructional and guided fishing trips at Redfish University. We’ve had a wide range of quality fishing trips all week with lots of speckled trout, redfish and flounder to the north and some bull redfish on the shallow flats to the south. Most days, the speckled trout count will exceed 40-50 quality fish and the redfish will stay steady in the 6-15 fish range. We’re really starting to see some great flounder in some areas with some even being sight fished in shallow water. A few clients this week wanted to end the trip with some bull redfish. With Redfish University attracting mostly advance-level anglers, our search always begins with targeting the redfish on the shallow, clear bars that can be sight fished with Berkley 4″ Gulp! Shrimp. That is exactly what we found on two occasions this week. Great fishing at Redfish University as always and don’t forget to thoroughly research your fishing guide’s credentials...
Oct22
When you’re looking for a fishing guide, fishing charter or the absolute best in angling instruction in Pensacola, Florida, Redfish University is the only place to be. Today and yesterday’s trips focused on inshore angling instruction as well as pure fish catching fun. Both mornings we started with small topwater Sebile Bongas, switching to Stickshadds then to Gulp! Jerkshads. Both mornings yielded 30-40 quality speckled trout, 6-12 redfish in the 20-28″ range and a few flounder. Lots of fish in very few places but most of the quality fish continue to come from the southern flats in the bays. Small fish to the north, at least for now. Finished with a nice stretch of great Redfish University inshore fishing trips and off for some travel fun/business time until Friday. Back at it hard with some very packed weeks until year’s end. We make it 225 trips this year!! Thank you to all the Redfish University anglers and please continue to smartly vet your fishing guides in Pensacola, Florida. E...
Oct20
Pensacola Fishing Charters and Guide trips at Redfish University continue to be amazing with solid catches of speckled trout, redfish, bull redfish and flounder. While Thursday’s trip was rescheduled due to weather, Friday and Saturday’s Redfish University instructional trips were performed under less than optimal conditions but found what we were looking for. Contrary to popular belief and other fishing reports, the bull redfish have arrived in Pensacola, Florida, you just need to know where to look. Friday’s instructional lesson concentrated on speckled trout early and then we ran to the bull redfish grounds to take plenty of big redfish in the 15-20# range. Today, our group wanted to learn some excellent areas and techniques to consistently produce large numbers of speckled trout and redfish in the late Fall and Winter. We encountered a nice surprise at the ramp this morning as a very nice father and son duo from Crestview that fished at Redfish University last December was preparing to launch as well. These guys were treated to one of the hottest redfish, trout and flounder bites Redfish...
Oct17
Redfish University is the place for Pensacola fishing charters and instructional excellence. The last few days have been outstanding with really nice catches of redfish, speckled trout, flounder, bull redfish and even stripers. We’ve been sticky with the same late Summer tactics in the lower bays to produce all species on a wide range of Sebile, Gulp! and Johnson baits. Limits of speckled trout are coming very easily and the redfish will naturally get better shortly. Anglers continue to move in mass numbers to secure a seat at Redfish University for the best angling instruction available and we are poised to celebrate our biggest year to date as we rapidly approach the 200 trip milestone for the year. Not bad considering 150 was the goal! Thanks again to all the Redfish University anglers and see everyone very soon. Don’t forget to thoroughly research your fishing guides! E...
Oct10
They’re not here in huge numbers yet but if you know where to look, large schools of Pensacola’s bull redfish can be found in some shallow water areas. Today’s trip was a combo instructional/fish catching session with some newly-placed local anglers that have heard so much about Redfish University from the thousands of locals that have attended classes at Redfish U. over the last several years. We started the morning with the regular topwater Sebile Bongas and Stickshadds and had a blast with some very nice quality speckled trout and some redfish in the 22-26″ range. As the sun rose, I thought maybe, just maybe, we could find some larger redfish for our anglers on some shallow flats that have been historically productive with the Pensacola bull redfish in the Fall. We approached our flats and immediately saw “floaters” sunning and looking for some Sebile Bongas. We strategically sat on two schools of 30-35″ redfish for nearly an hour and picked off several with topwaters, Gulp! 4″ Shrimp and even dropped a fly on one. Frankly, these fish are...
Oct10
This morning’s Redfish University inshore session focused again on late Fall and Winter fishing in the Pensacola, Florida area. While most of quality redfish and speckled trout will remain to the south for now, we started the morning in historically productive areas where our clients will find huge success in the coming months. Again, we found plenty of small-medium sized speckled trout along with some medium redfish although we did connect with some quality and even larger redfish on Sebile Bongas first thing in the morning. After our thorough educational tour of these areas and after demonstrating the vast knowledge and much sought after experience that only comes from Redfish University, the new anglers were treated to some better quality redfish, trout and flounder in areas that are absolutely infested with these species at the moment. We kept some fish for dinner and the rest were released properly. Like yesterday, the gents were treated to bonus coverage in the form of GoogleEarth maps of highly productive locations where they can target some easily caught bull redfish in the next...
