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...

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. It’s hard to believe we’re at 45 trips for the year already and is only mid-March! Well ahead of schedule. The last few days have been full of huge speckled trout and mid-sized redfish in a wide variety of areas and water conditions. We’re actually finding great fishing to the north right now even though the water is still pretty dirty but bait selection and clever techniques is the key and why Redfish University is your best choice for shallow water redfish and speckled trout. Both days, we rarely caught speckled trout under 20″ with most in the 22-23″ and a few from 25-28″. The redfish have ranged from 22-24″ with the exception of a few in the 26-28″ range. Again, experience, knowledge and enhanced techniques will produce nice amounts of fish even in less than optimal conditions. No sheepshead either day, I am proud to announce. We’ll do a double booking tomorrow and then a morning instructional on Saturday as we’ve postponed our visit to Belize until next weekend. Everyday next week again so more reports to come shortly. Take care, E...

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. It’s been a great three days at Redfish University. We performed two awesome instructional trips over the weekend, a wonderful Low Country boil at Pure Fishing’s beach house on Sunday evening and today we guided 10 representatives and executives from Pure Fishing. Finding plenty of quality speckled trout and some very nice redfish in shallow water. The key to our success the last three days was finding improved water clarity, a concentration of mullet and adding small gold spinners and worm rattles to our Berkley Gulp! Jerkshads and Havoc Grass Pigs. Oh yeah, we also caught a sheepshead on Saturday at Redfish University. First in 37 years and I hope it never happens again. He chased a Gulp! Jerkshad. Most fish released and few went home for dinner. Speaking of dinner… dinner tonight with the crew and then some rest. Working with Pure Fishing(Penn, Berkley) Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, Sunday and Monday over in Orange Beach with our regional Pure Fishing reps. Booked the next 11 days straight with the exception of this Sunday. Taking Sundays off. Sorry. More reports very soon. Thanks again, E...

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. What a fantastic week of fishing at Redfish University. Fished all week in a wide variety of locations from our homebase in Pensacola and over to Destin, FL. We’re still finding some difficult conditions to the north in the form of dirty, fresh water but we made some really clever adjusts and put our Redfish University anglers around some huge concentrations of redfish, very large speckled trout and even the bull redfish on the shallow flats and bars. Destin and Ft. Walton were particularly productive as the water has really cleaned up nicely to our east. Lots of legal redfish on the sand and grass flats but our highlight this week was the quality of the speckled trout. A few mornings we caught 10-15 speckled trout over 20″ with quite and few in the 4-6# range. The sight fishing for the bull redfish was also outstanding with much less pressured redfish way to our east. We’ll spend this weekend locally with speckled trout and redfish trips both on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday evening, I will join the thirteen Pure Fishing representatives and executives from Spirit Lake at their beachhouse on Pensacola Beach for a huge shrimp boil and oyster roast. Lots of fishing chat that evening before our big trip on Monday morning of next week! Booked Monday through Friday of next week and then off for an extended weekend at my other home in Ambergris Caye, Belize. I need my permit, tarpon and bonefish fix! Thanks again, E...

Pensacola Fishing Charters at Redfish University. With all the volatile weather this week, we didn’t get in as many Redfish University instructional and guided trips as we would have liked. The Bass Pro Shops Spring Classic rush is always challenging near the beginning of a busy March and Spring season but we will sort a schedule for everyone, rest assured. The weather on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week was challenging, the water was still stained and the tide conditions were actually pitiful but we made the correct decisions to target the speckled trout and redfish in the north on Friday and then concentrate on the bull redfish near the Pass on the neap tides on the previous two days. Those big redfish will bite in all conditions!! For the species to the north, it was important to understand the water clarity, slow water movement and changing pressure. Ideally, we fished the cleanest water in the area away from the rivers but even in the some really questionable water, we produced bites from sluggish, blind speckled trout and redfish. In these conditions, Berkley Gulp! and Havocs with chartreuse jigheads and plastic worm rattle inserts increased our bite rate tremendously. For the big redfish down south, we also found the water to be a bit off-color but we were able to see plenty in water depths of four feet and shallower. We also found that launching the ledges proved very productive. The Berkley Gulp! 4″ Shrimp in Lime Tiger also equipped with worm rattles worked beautiful. This morning’s bull redfish trip with a couple celebrating their anniversary was postponed until warmer temperatures fall upon us. I’m happy they did, it was 37 degrees at takeoff time and I was very pleased to receive a text from them at 5am this morning from Destin! Hitting it very hard next week and then really looking forward to the Pure Fishing executives and regional reps trip the following Monday! 13 anglers and 4 boats! It’s going to be a fantastic time with our friends from Pure Fishing!! Take care, E...