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S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S 1 4 5 off the piers at the Outer Banks in North Carolina to striped bass in Tennessee and was determined now to add to its extensive history by catching a redfish. Unfortunately, history did not happen at our first location beside an old pier. Sean found the fish in abundance, evidenced by the puffs of mud that appeared when the reds moved, but they weren't biting. I tried dry flies and artificial baits, but living next to the man-made structure had made the fish too wily to fall for such pale imitations of their usual prey. We then headed north to a cluster of oyster reefs tucked against the thick marsh grasses and C arly casts light spinning tackle into a feeder creek for spotted seatrout, which are similar to freshwater trout in size and their affinity for currents.