Nags Head, NC Originally built in 1939, Jen- nette’s is the oldest fishing pier on the Outer Banks. North Carolina’s Outer Banks has long been known for its spectacular fishing. Red drum, bluefish, striped bass, flounder and king mackerel are just some of the prized fishes sought by anglers young and old. Fishing on the banks was for- ever changed when the first fishing pier—Jennette’s Pier— was opened in Nags Head back in 1939. Battered by storms and rebuilt many times throughout its seventy-year life, Jennette’s was knocked down by Hurri- cane Isabel in 2003, just after the pier and its five-acre tract were purchased by the NC Aquarium Society. Now, after years of planning and twenty-four months of construction, Jennette’s will reemerge in 2011 as a one-of- a-kin

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