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.
Jun03
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University June 1-3, 2013. The great inshore fishing in Pensacola Bay continues at Redfish University. Stayed in town last weekend and banged out a few short morning trips along with a fantastic instructional trip this morning. Covered a lot of very productive areas where the redfish and speckled trout have been plentiful, unpressured and where the mullet school are holding nicely. Sebile Bongas have provided some awesome topwater action and the bites continued well into the mid-morning with some welcomed cloud-cover. The great thing about Redfish University clients is all one really has to do is put some big numbers of fish in front of them and they do the rest. We’re always impressed by our huge number of bass anglers and never surprised that these great anglers choose Redfish University for their angling needs here in Pensacola, Florida. Lots of catch and release but we also took a pretty significant number of speckled trout and redfish for dinner. We’ll stay busy for the rest of the week, maybe the weekend and definitely next...
Jun01
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University May 29-31. When traveling and local anglers want to go fishing at Redfish University, these anglers want to do just that, go fishing. We like to take it a step further and call it “catching” but we’ll address this shortly. Although we’ve had some pretty stiff winds out of the Southeast for the last few days, there are ALWAYS areas to target redfish, speckled trout and flounder in the Pensacola area. Experience, creativity and a little extra effort in the form of trailering the boat to semi-protected areas to eliminate rough water crossings are always appreciated by Redfish University anglers. Of course, wind direction and speed will always limit our fishing areas on that particular day. It is the captain’s, or in this case, the Professor’s experience, reputation and drive that will make the difference between a fantastic morning of catching big numbers of fish and learning the most productive techniques available or not catching anything at all or even worse, not going. Also worth pointing out is the fact that many instructional...
May28
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. The guiding and instructional charters here at Redfish University targeting redfish, speckled trout and flounder over the last week has been outstanding. We’ve been guiding a huge number of very talented bass anglers and anglers looking for the best inshore instructional guiding on the Gulf Coast. Last weekend’s full moon and cold front conditions provided a challenge as the best action took place during the first few hours on the morning but we also delayed some of our instructional and fishing-catching trips until the late afternoon where we found better success with all species. Having a full understanding of our local waters, identifying difficult conditions and being on the water nearly everyday is what separates Redfish University from all other guide companies and keeps our clients returning year after year. Early last week, it was the Sebile Bongas and Stick Shadds that did most of the damage with the redfish and speckled trout. As the full moon and front approached, it was important to adjust baits and presentation accordly. Further, with the increased...
May19
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. 100 trips came quickly this year! Thanks everyone! The last ten Redfish University trips have consisted of instructional sessions and guided inshore sessions including some double-bookings last Tuesday and Thursday. Thankfully, many of our trips in last week were catch and release outings and we are rotating many different areas nicely as to not over-fish many very productive flats and banks. Pre-cold front conditions on May 9th and 10th were ideal for our shallow water redfish and speckled trout with huge catches of quality speckled trout on topwater Sebile Bongas and Stickshadds as well as a handful of redfish in the 21-25″ range. As the small front passed last night weekend after returning from vacation, we were confronted with low humidity, high pressure and difficult tide conditions from Monday to Wednesday afternoon. Topwater did work but the fish certainly were not as aggressive as the following week. Small, detailed adjustments and concentrating around large numbers of speckled trout and redfish in this case, increased our catch-rate tremendously. We still picked up some great...
May07
Pensacola Fishing Guides at Redfish University. We’re rapidly approaching the 100 trip mark and thank you to all Redfish University return clients and new clients for an epic start to 2013. Redfish, speckled trout and flounder fishing in Pensacola, Florida continues to be outstanding Redfish University and we’re doing it everyday. With nearly the entire month of May and June booked when I’m in town, we’ll be treating our Redfish University clients to the best instructional and pure guiding services of the Gulf Coast. Today and yesterday’s trips were a combination of instructional and fish-catching guide trips in search of redfish, speckled trout and flounder. Since we’re on the water everyday, this pretty much eliminates any guesswork and we land on all species everytime. Both outings produced a huge number of speckled trout, 10-15 redfish and two flounder per trip resulting in some nice Grand Slams for our demanding anglers. Most fish released and an appropriate amount were taken for dinner. Redfish University will guide tomorrow, Thursday and Friday and then we’re outta here! Take care, E...
May05
Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Just finished a long string of Redfish University instructional and guiding trips over the last six days and even guided this morning(Sunday). In fact, it was seven trips in six days with a double-booking Friday morning and afternoon in the rain. With the exception of last Wednesday morning, the fishing at Redfish University has been absolutely outstanding with huge catches of quality speckled trout, redfish and some solid flounder. A few afternoons, we stuck between 15-20 redfish in the 20-30″ range in a variety of locations and were able to sight fish quite a few fish on the shallow banks. Again, Sebile Bongas and Stick Shadds in the early morning hours and then we’ll switch to a number of very productive Berkley Gulp! products to sweep up the rest. We will be back on the water tomorrow morning for another Monday through Friday stretch of awesome Redfish University trips and then fly far, far away on Friday for the birthday weekend! More reports to follow quickly. Thanks again, E...
