On a late January evening, hundreds of redfish clustered into a sliver of shallow green water in tidal waters a stone’s throw from the bridge between Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, surrounded by a sea of pluff mud at low tide.
Redfish often school in tight quarters like this in winter months across the Lowcountry, riding it out until high tide. It’s an ancient survival technique to avoid hungry dolphins.
But this time, drone pilot Jason All was there to document the massive school of redfish — and an equally compelling panorama of the veiny Lowcountry mudflats at low tide — from a birds-eye view…