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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-May 9,10 13-17, 2013

Eric — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:37:07 +0000

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 fish on Sebile Bongas and StickShadds but we switched to Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and Mantis Shrimp to secure more and more bites. It was very similar to Winter-time techniques in mid-May. As the week progressed, higher humidity and cloud-cover approached and dramatically improved the attitudes of both targeted species. Our Redfish University morning sessions take place from 5am-10am in a variety of locations with a few targeting the Big Lagoon area last week with some clients renting a beachhouse in the area. Our afternoon trips will begin at roughly 300pm and go until dark. In this instance, we are warming up on the shallow water jumping blacktip sharks for the first hour or so and then traveling to the redfish and speckled trout grounds later in the day as our most exciting action will take place from 5pm until dark.
It’s going to be another outstanding week of instructional and guided fishing sessions here at Redfish University this week. Redfish University is the only place to be for Pensacola inshore fishing with strictly artificial baits. Thanks to masses of Cyberangler members and followers that have attended Redfish University this year. Take care, E Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Guides at Redfish University-May 6,7 2013

Eric — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:59:44 +0000

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 Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-Apr. 29-May 5, 2013

Eric — Sun, 05 May 2013 21:45:57 +0000

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 Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 14-26, 2013

Eric — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:31:05 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. After some home PC issues, we’re back and with a brand new computer. The fishing at Redfish University has been superb the last week and a half and we’re running instructional and guided trips nearly everyday! The redfish and speckled trout have come alive and we’re starting to see some nice numbers of flounder as well. Most mornings, a limit of quality speckled trout will be in the cooler in thirty minutes with some really solid redfish mixed in. Topwater Sebile Bongas to start the morning, followed by Sebile Stick Shadds and then we’ll clean up the rest with Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs. We even performed a surf fishing instructional for pompano. Probably off this weekend and then the next ten weekdays are booked solid! Thanks again to everyone for choosing Redfish University for your inshore guiding service on the Gulf Coast! Take care, E Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 12,13 2013

Eric — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:29:32 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Last week was a fantastic week of fishing at Redfish University with many new clients choosing Redfish University for their fishing-catching and instructional needs. The speckled trout and redfish have come alive in the southern bays and huge catches of both species can be expected here at Redfish University. Sebile Bonga Minnows, Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads and Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs have done a number on these very aggressive fish. Most fish were released while some hit the cooler for dinner that evening. Took today off but another nice run of trips Tuesday-Friday of this week and most of May is full. We still have a handful of days available in late April and May so don’t delay. Thank you again to all the new clients and the huge number of repeat clients alike that have made this Spring fishing season the best yet! Take care, E Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-April 4,5,8,9,10

Eric — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:24:39 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. The extremely busy Spring season here at Redfish University has continued even after Spring Break 2013 and our masses of redfish and speckled trout anglers are being treated to some excellent action with both species. An added bonus has been our ability to send the sheepshead and bull redfish bottom fishing charters to a few great local guides in exchange for some anglers specifically requesting artificial only services focusing on shallow redfish and speckled trout. This has worked out beautifully with some excellent local captains including Brant Peacher, Justin Hinote and Brad King. Back to the action. Each morning and late afternoon we are finding increased activity with topwater baits, like the Sebile Bonga Minnow, which is an excellent sign that both species are now aggressively looking for food. As always, the Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads in camo and the Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs are both outstanding choices. A bunch of catch and release trips which is nice and a few redfish and speckled trout hit the cooler for cookouts. We will take today off with rain probable this afternoon and be back tomorrow with possibly a double for some more top-notch Redfish University action. Big week next week! Thanks again to ALL the new Redfish University clients this Spring and to ALL the regular and VIP Redfish University clients that have been so patient. Take care, E Holstman

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Penn/Spiderwire Tour and trips at Redfish University-Apr.1-3, 2013

Eric — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:49:51 +0000

Redfish University is the place to be for light-tackle, artificial only redfish and speckled trout action!! The last few days of fishing at Redfish University have been excellent with great numbers of redfish and speckled trout for our anglers. Yesterday’s weather forced us to push back some guide trips back later in the week so we got to spend more time down in Destin for the Penn/Spiderwire Tour with our friends from Pure Fishing. We unveiled some new Penn products and had a very nice turnout on a very raining day down in Destin, FL. Monday and Tuesday’s afternoon Redfish University trips were very productive with Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and the Berkley Havoc Grass pigs both taking a huge number of quality speckled trout and redfish in shallow water and wind-blown edges. Towards dust, we even produced some nice fish with the Sebile Bonga Minnow topwater baits and this trend will continue as the water temperature continues to rise. More Penn/Spiderwire promotion work throughout the week and afternoon Redfish University guide trips through Saturday. Again, a packed Spring season and thank you to all repeat and new Redfish University clients. Big year!! Take care, E Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-March 26-30, 2013

Eric — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:50:03 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Lots of fishing and catching here at Redfish University. It’s been a HUGE Spring here at Redfish University with repeat clients and new anglers alike. So busy in fact, we’re cutting down on our weekend guiding as we can pack 5-7 Redfish University instructional and fish-catching trips into during normal business hours. This is a welcome adjustment for many reasons.
We’ve had some huge swings in the weather with very cold temperatures followed by some stable, seasonal temperatures as of late. One thing has remained constant and that is great numbers of redfish and speckled trout. We’ve begun our descent into the middle and lower bays as our groups of bait and schools of mullet have followed accordingly. Finding some topwater bites now on Sebile Bongas and Stickshadds and as always, Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads will clean up the rest of both species later in the morning. Catches remain in the 25-40 count for speckled trout with some in the 20-23″ range. For the redfish, we’re finding 8-12 per outing in all sizes. Lots of really great kid anglers lately and we hope they’ve been enjoying the complimentary Yamaha hats provided from our sponsor and friends at Yamaha Outboards. Today’s report and the rest of this week’s productive Redfish University outing will follow shortly. Thanks again for an outstanding Winter and Spring season at Redfish University. E Holstman

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University

Eric — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:01:41 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. Busy.

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Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University-March 15,16,18,19 2013

Eric — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:20:14 +0000

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. It’s been a super four days at Redfish University with several instructional trips, double bookings on Friday and Monday and a few pure fish-catching trips in a variety of locations. The water has cleared to the north and the redfish and speckled trout have come alive with huge catches of speckled trout and solid days of 10-15 redfish in the 22-29″ range in shallow water. We’re beginning to see some topwater strikes, especially from hungry redfish, during the early morning and late afternoon hours. For the most part, Berkley Gulp! 5″ Jerkshads, Berkley Havoc Grass Pigs and Johnson 1/4oz Gold Spoons have done most the damage on most the redfish and speckled trout. A few catch and release trips and some anglers are keeping a few fish for dinner. This morning’s trip was cut very short by some rain so we rescheduled the instructional trip for next week when conditions will be better for our local anglers. Again, a tremendous Spring boom here at Redfish University with now over 50 Redfish University fishing/instructional trips from the year and going strong. We will guide tomorrow through Saturday and pickup again next week with nine trips in six days. It should be interesting and exhausting but one thing is for sure; HUGE numbers of speckled trout, redfish and bull redfish will be anxiously awaiting our anglers!! More reports soon. Take care, E Holstman

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