For the fifth year,Redfish University and Eric Holstman will be at the Spring Classic event Bass Pro Shops in Destin on February 25-26 from 10-3pm. As a Pure Fishing/Berkley Pro Staff ambassador, I will be assisting store employees and customers with our products including Berkley Gulp!, Berkley Powerbait, Penn Reels, Abu Garcia, All-Star Rods, Spiderwire, Stren, Trilene, Johnson and many more. Don’t forget about the “Reel Trade Ins” and all the great deals between Feb. 25-March 13. Redfish University will also perform redfish and speckled trout seminars during various periods of the day. For those in Mobile, Berkley Pro Staff ambassador, Bobby Abruscato, will be handling the Spanish Fort Bass Pro Shops event. Abruscato is the absolute best over in Mobile Bay. Thanks and I hope to see everyone at Bass Pro Shops. E...
Read MoreLots of trips at Redfish University-February 24, 2010
Hello all, Redfish University took a little break back in December but has performed many shallow water redfish and trout trips between the New Years and now. We’ve been concentrating in the upper bays where there are plenty fish as well as some trips down to West Bay for the shallow water tailing redfish. I wouldn’t say it’s been busy but 1-3 trips per week is fine with me. A point worth mentioning, with the early morning low tides for the last few months, the redfish and trout fishing has definitely been better in the afternoons as the water is rising. 3-4 hours before the high has proved to be most production. An average trip has consisted of 15-35 trout from 1-4# and 6-20 redfish in the 20-25″ range. Lots of trips in the books in March, April, May and beyond so I will do a much better job of posting reports in the coming weeks. Thanks for looking and see everyone soon. Eric...
Read MoreRedfish University in Belize for bonefish, permit, tarpon and snook with the genius of George Bradley!-November 19-29, 2010
Recently, we returned to one of our favorite destinations and my home away from home for the Thanksgiving break. Travelled to Belize with my wife, Tracy, and this time, we brought along our friends Scott and Susan George, and one of Tracy’s colleagues, Lea. With the exception of our arrival day, the weather cooperated beautifully. The twenty-five minute flight on the private plane from Belize City to the island was pretty eventfully in very stormy conditions and made the approach to the island’s very small and very narrow runway extremely tricky. Needless to say, a few One Barrels were polished off at the house. My friend Scott and I quickly unpacked our arsenal of rods, reels and tackle already waiting for us and we were off in search of bonefish, permit, tarpon and snook on the shallow Belizean flats of Chetumal and Savannah as well as the surrounding lagoons containing cenotes. Scott is an experienced bass angler and was really looking forward to the fantastic shallow water angling in Central America. When we’re in Belize and being flats boatless at the moment down there, we fish with the best of the best, George Bradley. During our stay, George guided us to countless bonefish, permit, tarpon and a few snook and did so in ways that were extremely challenging and in some ways that were much less challenging. All fish were taken on artificial baits including small tan/brown bucktails and Gulp! 5” Jerkshads. We used Penn Conquers in 2000 and 4000 Series with All-Star ASR Redfish 7’ rods with 4-6# Spiderwire Ultracast InvisiBraid for the bonefish and permit, and 15# InvisiBraid for the tarpon. All leader material was 10-12# Stren Tinted in Coral Mist for the bones/permit and 30-50# Stren Tinted in Tannic for the tarpon/snook. We even encouraged George to hit some difficult bones and permits with the fly rod and we really got to experience a master at work. It was a great several days of fishing with daily numbers of 15-25 bonefish in the 2.5-4# range, 6-12 permit in the 3-8# range, some great 20-50# tarpon with lots of jumped off fish and some snook. During the...
Read MoreRedfish University in Ambergris Caye, Belize from Nov.19-29, 2010
Redfish University is closed from November 19- November 29, 2010. We are in Ambergris Caye, Belize chasing bonefish, permit, tarpon and snook. A little diving, snorkeling, cave-tubing, horseback riding, sailing, Thanksgiving lobster, ceviche and yellowtail, rum and Belikens as well! If anyone needs me, I’m at the pool. Back next Sunday. Thanks, Eric...
Read MoreBig Redfish after poor bottom fishing at Redfish University-November 18, 2010
My last trip before heading to Ambergris Caye, Belize for ten days. I am ready! Had a couple fellas who wanted to pull on some fish this morning for a few hours. Started at 700am and filled the livewell with beautiful 4″ menhaden and 4-6″ mullet. For those interested in finding some quality live bait, the ponds on the south side of the bay along Ft. Pickens Rd. are packed with great numbers of both mullet and menhaden. Hit some bottom structure for about 45 minutes without a bite. Slow water? Incoming tide? I don’t know. Packed those rods up and pulled out the light tackle. Ran out of the Pass to the west side and found plenty of bait and birds. No visible signs of large redfish but we found soon enough that they were on the down-current side of the bait and near the bottom. A few other boats were up-current and didn’t see them with fish. Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads with 1/4oz. Marsh Works Bull Red jigheads and 3/4oz. Johnson Spoons worked great. I wouldn’t say there was a lot of redfish in the area and I don’t have a bottomfinder on the 21 Redfisher but they were definitely down-current waiting for the bait to come to them. Pulled on fish for a few hours and headed in at 1000am to pack for Belize. The bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook, rum and cold Belikens are waiting for me. Look for some more RU reports after November 29. E Holstman Please click an image to enlarge and view...
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