Fishing every morning of the week from 5am to 10am. The fishing has been excellent with great numbers of speckled trout, redfish and some flounder. Some really fantastic groups of anglers have found a home at Redfish University including Pensacola’s Chamber of Commerce, some college football players and some professional bass anglers. Book your Redfish University experience...
Read MoreChasing Trout and Redfish in my new Pathfinder 2300 HPS
Chasing Trout and Redfish in my new Pathfinder 2300 HPS Capt. Eric Holstman July 7, 2012 Pensacola – Saltwater Fishing Report Chasing Trout and Redfish in my new Pathfinder 2300 HPS By Eric Holstman Yamaha Pro Staff With a 250 h.p. Yamaha VMAX SHO four stroke, I can cruise at 4,000 rpm and get around 3.5 mpg. June is a time of the year when I’m on the water early, running in the twilight and fishing until mid-morning, then off the water in the heat of the day. There’s a great window from dawn until about 10 a.m. or so where the water temperature has cooled all night and the fish are comfortable and active. I start my day at about 5 a.m., make a long run in the dark so that I can catch the dawn topwater bite. This time of the year I like to look for the big schools of mullet, because the trout and redfish like to work the edges of the schools feeding on the shrimp and minnows the mullet kick up as they dig around the bottom. I can count on 30 to 50 trout a morning and 8 to 10 redfish. Most of the trout are fairly close to the banks, which is nice because that’s the same area that the redfish like to range. Then around 7:30 we’ll switch over to fishing jigheads with soft plastic jerkbaits, concentrating on marshy points and the occasional boat dock. With the big trout spawning right now, I’ve been concentrating on oyster bars in 8 to 12 feet of water, particularly if the tide is bad. We can usually catch a bunch of nice trout in the deeper water, but you don’t find a lot of reds there. Around 9:30 or so, I start moving to the deeper areas with stumps and rocks where I can usually get a good trout or redfish to bite along the bank. There’s usually two or three of those places I hit every morning. I recently switched boats. For the last four years I’ve been running a Hewes 21′ Redfisher, and this year I switched over to a different...
Read MorePensacola Redfish and Speckled Trout bonanza at Redfish University-June 19-27, 2012
Fishing every morning and even some doubles in the afternoons to provide Redfish University clients, without a doubt, the best saltwater fishing experience on the Gulf Coast. The weather has been up and down but the redfish and speckled trout fishing here in Pensacola, Florida has been outstanding in any conditions. Fished some days with high winds, tropical storm conditions, bad tides and north winds with high pressure but Redfish University continues to delight new and regular clients alike. Topwaters are being crushed early and applying the finesse with a variety of cleverly colored and rigged Berkley Gulp! baits. By the way, Gulp! always out-fished livebait. That, and some great guidance. Thanks again, E...
Read MoreChasing Trout and Redfish in my new Pathfinder 2300 HPS
Chasing Trout and Redfish In My New Pathfinder 2300 HPS With a 250 h.p. Yamaha VMAX SHO four stroke, I can cruise at 4,000 rpm and get around 3.5 mpg By Eric Holstman Yamaha Pro Staff June is a time of the year when I’m on the water early, running in the twilight and fishing until mid-morning, then off the water in the heat of the day. There’s a great window from dawn until about 10 a.m. or so where the water temperature has cooled all night and the fish are comfortable and active. I start my day at about 5 a.m., make a long run in the dark so that I can catch the dawn topwater bite. This time of the year I like to look for the big schools of mullet, because the trout and redfish like to work the edges of the schools feeding on the shrimp and minnows the mullet kick up as they dig around the bottom. I can count on 30 to 50 trout a morning and 8 to 10 redfish. Most of the trout are fairly close to the banks, which is nice because that’s the same area that the redfish like to range. Then around 7:30 we’ll switch over to fishing jigheads with soft plastic jerkbaits, concentrating on marshy points and the occasional boat dock. With the big trout spawning right now, I’ve been concentrating on oyster bars in 8 to 12 feet of water, particularly if the tide is bad. We can usually catch a bunch of nice trout in the deeper water, but you don’t find a lot of reds there. Around 9:30 or so, I start moving to the deeper areas with stumps and rocks where I can usually get a good trout or redfish to bite along the bank. There’s usually two or three of those places I hit every morning. I recently switched boats. For the last four years I’ve been running a Hewes 21’ Redfisher, and this year I switched over to a different Maverick Boat Company product—the Pathfinder 2300 HPS. Both boats were rigged with 250 h.p. Yamaha VMAX SHO four stroke outboards, and...
Read MorePensacola’s redfish and speckled trout specialists at Redfish University-June 15-18, 2012
Quality anglers and quality redfish/speckled trout make for swimmingly productive mornings of pure fish-catching, fishing “shop-talk” and some simply incredible dialogue focused on inshore saltwater fishing. Since Redfish University attracts and is most popular with the cream of the crop in both saltwater and freshwater anglers from all over the country, often times the learning process is mutual. Each trip, I am amazed at the skill-level of most Redfish University clients, the willingness to adjust, trust and accept our local inshore fishing techniques and the vast knowledge and interesting techniques shared by my clients. Redfish University’s inshore redfish and speckled trout guides trips in the last few months have been nothing short of astonishing. A very consistent topwater bite in the early morning for both redfish and trout and then some excellent blind casting and sight fishing opportunities have highly entertained Redfish U clients from all over the country. All techniques and baits are producing some true trophy fish including several 4-6.5# speckled trout and redfish in the 22-32″ range with a #35 mammoth beast crushing a bait in very shallow water in recent days. With the extremely experienced and demanding anglers that Redfish University services, it’s incredibly important to keep plenty of quality inshore species within casting distance of our valued anglers. The last few days, we’ve found plenty of redfish and speckled trout in both clear and off-colored water. The recent rains and high winds have created some tricky situations in some areas but with the help of some clever tricks and ingenius techniques, these inshore sport species don’t stand a chance. As always, artificials baits(Berkley Gulp!, Sebile, Johnson Gold Spoons, Berkley Powerbait, etc.) WILL out-fish live bait everytime and everyday….. especially at Redfish University. Thanks again, E...
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