Had to scare off a few dolphins from their morning feeding, then tried to give the reds time to calm down. Despite the cold and wind, we did have good light today, which helped in seeing the schools on the mud flat. Chased a couple of schools for the last of the outgoing and the first hour or two of the incoming to no avail. Lots of fish, but they were lethargic and hardly moving at all. Finally decided to head to a different area that I found a big school at last weekend. Sure enough, they were there. Poled over them the first time and bumped them a little bit, so I swung wide around them and went upwind of school. Drifted down back to the fish, that had now regrouped, and staked out. I was fishing with my girlfriend this morning and got her to put a cast downwind and into the fish. She had a gulp crab rigged with a circle hook, and she just let it sit there as we watched some of the fish milling around in the general vicinity of where her cast landed. The bulk of the school was to the right a little ways, as indicated by frequent hints of pink in the water as the fish turned broadside in the sun. 
A few moments later and her line came taught with a willing red. It actually put up a good fight, contrary to the others we've been catching lately in the cold, and gave her a few quality runs. Shortly, she had her first ever redfish to the boat. 28" and 8lbs, a healthy multi-spotter. Im not sure which of us was more excited.Among the dolphins and hundreds of redfish, we also saw an otter and a whitetail deer today. The otter was swimming around on the mud flat and followed the boat for a little while with curious glances. The deer appeared out of the Spartina grass and swam over to a small oyster bar. I don't know what it was doing out there, but appeared to be eating or licking something. Never seen a deer that liked oysters ! Tide got too high for sightfishing about 11:30 and we headed back to the ramp.
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