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.
Sep18
The last five trips in three days have been outstanding here at Redfish University despite some neap tides on Sunday, heavy rains and winds on Monday and very windy conditions today(Tuesday). All scenerios can present a challenge, but finding hungry fish is the key. Busy enough to do a few afternoon double bookings as well with some local anglers looking for some top-notch inshore fishing instruction, techniques and highly productive areas. While there are plenty of talented anglers vacationing and fishing with Redfish University, it’s the local regulars, new resident anglers and military visitors in search of world-class instruction that we enjoy the most. As the water temperatures haven’t dropped, we’ve been concentrating on similar Summer areas where plenty of redfish, quality speckled trout and flounder have been on the menu nearly all year. Topwater Sebiles have been great early, followed by some Stickshadds and then some Gulp! Jerkshads and perhaps some Johnson 1/4oz Gold Spoons. Four proven baits from Pure Fishing and their results will speak for themselves. Each of the five outing in the last three day...
Sep13
Some really steady trips on Wednesday and today, even if the winds and conditions slightly limited our areas of operation. We’ve been launching on protected banks, or as protected as possible from a direct east wind at 15-20mph. If we can get to my productive areas, we will catch fish and this is why I’m in a 2012 Pathfinder 2300 HPS. I can’t say enough about the Pathfinder 2300 or the whole Maverick Boat Company product line for that matter. My Pathfinder is truly the best bay boat made… period, end of statement. Let’s get to the fishing. Both mornings, we started with Sebile Stickshadds to stick numerous speckled trout in the 2-4# range including a few medium redfish in the mix. As the morning went on, we switched to a great technique to fish a little deeper water and sand ledges. The drop-shot rig really works wonders around timid fish in off-color water. The insertion of a plastic worm rattle in the Gulp! baits also draws more strikes. A few other top-secret techniques won’t be offered, you’ll just...
Sep11
Well, we had a nice little break from all the fishing the few weeks and returned just in time for some very nice Fall weather. This can be a tricky time of year for anglers and inexperienced guides with small cold fronts, irratic pressure and windy mornings. It’s important to remember that although the temperatures are a bit cooler right now, the water temperature hasn’t dropped yet. With a morning north wind, blue-bird skies and rising pressure, it’s extremely important to be around large numbers of redfish/speckled trout and demonstrate the correct and most productive techniques and baits. This is yet another obvious reason to choose the proven instruction at Redfish University for your inshore guiding services. Normally in the Fall, a slow-walked Sebile Bonga will produce some strikes and this held true both mornings. I wouldn’t say they were overly aggressive but our anglers seem to always want to start with the Bongas. After our first pass, we turned around and tripled our catch with Stickshadds and Gulp! Jerkshads. Both mornings we covered 12-15 areas and caught fish...
Sep08
Just ended a long run of Redfish University trips and looking forward to a quiet weekend in Seaside followed by another packed week of trips next week. The fishing has been great over the past 10 days of trips and our clients have found plenty of steady action with Pensacola’s redfish and speckled trout. As always, we start with the Sebile Bongas at first-light to get the exciting topwater strikes on the flats from the trout and redfish. Lately, there’s been several large groups of jacks that will cruise the flats, but most clients couldn’t care less, which is fine with me. On occasion, an angler will choose to launch a topwater into these jacks and then he’s tied up for at least a half hour which sadly cuts into our time alloted for our targeted species. In any event, we will cover 10-12 areas each morning giving our anglers a wide range of fishing techniques from the shallow flats, to deeper points and deeper/shallow oysters and even some sight fishing if the opportunity exists. This is the diversity...
Sep05
Everyday at Redfish University. Today we found plenty of speckled trout and redfish of all sizes. Sebile Bongas and Stickshadss were on the menu all morning with the overcast skies and rain. Over 40 speckled trout were boated with most released. A one angler limit was taken. A more detailed report will be provided for tomorrow and Friday’s trips. Thanks, E...
Sep04
Great fishing and tons of trips!! The end of Summer will not slow Redfish University down. Quite the contrary, as the Fall and Winter are always as busy with our big numbers of regular local anglers, lots of instructional trips and the fact that our tourist volume will decline significantly which means more anglers can be accommodated at Redfish University instead of being unconfidently directed elsewhere. We’re on a long streak of superb trips at Redfish University with 6 more in a row and the fishing has been excellent. On the flats as usual and finding plenty of great action with redfish and speckled trout. We’re spending most of our mornings in the bay system but we did hit Santa Rosa Sound over the weekend to target some really nice groups of redfish near Navarre over the weekend. In the Sound, we start with Sebile Bongas and switch to Johnson 1/4oz Gold Spoons after 730am. Mullet and broken-bottom are your keys to success. Redfish U. anglers are kindly keeping an appropriate amount of fish for dinner and we are...
