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.

Nov13

November 2014 Redfish, Redfish and more Redfish

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May06

Redfish University in May

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Mar11

Busy as can be at Redfish University

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Sorry for lack of reports. We’re as busy as we can possibly be here at Redfish University. Bass Pro Shops, Skeeter Experience seminars, regional boatshows, speaking appearances and, of course, a full slate of instructional and fish-catching trips at Redfish University. It’s nice charging a full charter rate per seminar and the number of Redfish University trips booked during these events is astonishing. Finding plenty of speckled trout, redfish and bull redfish here in Pensacola. For clients looking to sight fish the larger redfish in shallow clear water, we’ve found great success on some very productive flats. The key is to arrive early to surprise them before the more inexperienced guides and anglers arrive and spread them out. For the legal redfish and speckled trout, no problem on the flats in Pensacola Bay and we’re even starting to see some topwater action. Had a great time yesterday as we had a Penn/Berkley photo shoot for the new Pro Staff Pure Fishing websites. I had the rare opportunity to sight fish a few large...

Feb14

Guiding/Instructional trips and the biggest Winter ever at Redfish University!

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. The biggest Winter ever at Redfish University!! Returned from a week of skiing, snowboarding, dog sledding, outdoor spas and Canadian beer in Mont Tremblant, Quebec on Tuesday luckily and was greeted by three trips in two days. The redfish and speckled trout were on the slow side but the larger redfish have been cooperating nicely. Taking the weekend off and then six trips in five days next week followed by a weekend of The Skeeter Experience seminars in Biloxi, MS. Receiving a new “sled” every ten months is nice!! Lots of reports next week!! Thanks, E Holstman  ...

Jan27

Almost caught up at Redfish University… almost.

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. We’re making progress here at Redfish University with some local anglers still on the waiting list. We’ve had to postpone today’s, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s Redfish University trips due to bad weather and snow which will add to the delay but we’ll try to recover later in the week and early next week before departuring for a little skiing adventure up in Mont Tremblant Quebec. This is a fantastic time of year for Redfish University. While most fishing guides in our area will be somewhat busy in the Spring and Summer due to high tourist volume, high Google placement and Redfish University’s packed schedule, in the Winter, Redfish University’s accessibility and high demand allow us to perform three to five, and sometimes more, trips per week with many being instructional trips with local anglers. We’re so pleased and humbled that so many travelling and local anglers have made the best choice for their instructional fishing trips. We’re finding plenty of redfish, speckled trout and bull redfish over the past week with some days better...

Jan18

Playing catch up at Redfish University

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. With all the weather that one would expect in January in Northwest Florida, Redfish University has been in catch up mode for the last few weeks. Extreme cold, high winds and rain has made it very difficult to accommodate our local and traveling Redfish University instructional anglers. After postponing three trips last week, this week was filled with scheduling conflict and anglers on standby at a moment’s notice. We performed four Redfish University instructional trips this week with some very patient anglers and will do the same next week with some waiting anglers and already scheduled clients. We’ve even been pairing a few anglers together on instructional trips at my recommendation and their request which has really worked nicely and they can share the cost of these incredibly informative and successful trips. Finding lots of redfish and speckled trout in all sizes in very few locations right now. Thankfully, experience, knowledge and time on the water will take us directly to the fish. Thank you to all our regular monthly clients, regulars and...