Had a mix of success and frustration last week. My wife and I launched out of a local river Saturday morning and fished around a couple small islands on a moderate rising tide. Caught a couple smallish reds, a flounder, and a handful of decent trout before moving into some creeks. Not much going on there and we headed in by noon. The forecast was for some real wind Sunday but she wanted to keep some trout so we went back to the same islands and had a great bite on flukes for a couple hours. Not a speck of wind 
Tuesday I fished solo for reds on a good morning low. The first flat I checked is bordered by a deeper basin. Wading birds were feeding shallow way inside the basin on the flat. I figured the reds would push onto it once the tide came in more, so I took some time poling the basin (probably 3’ deep) for floaters and picked-up one on a fluke. As it shallowed towards the flat I spooked several fish laying in the grass, so I got down and began to pole from the bow with my fly rod laid out. Began to see wakes and quick tail slips but couldn’t get close enough for a cast without moving them off. So I put down the pole and just drifted with the tide with the rod in hand. There were enough fish around that I got several shots at floaters and a couple tails. Caught one, but had several spook as the line was in the air and two others simply ignore the fly. As the tide came in I ran to another flat and found a few fish but they seemed even more skittish.
I’ve seen reds that spooky later in the winter but this time of year they’re usually more receptive - not sure what was going on.
