Leslie Johnson came home Tuesday to strewn boxes, water-stained walls and soggy, ruined furniture in her first-floor apartment in Bayou Vista, Texas.

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Under a veil of the early-morning fog Yvon Chouinard , the 63-year-old founder of Patagonia sportswear, and I cast colorful, hand-tied salmon flies into the tannin-stained water.

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Or, stay within the castle walls to admire the four-poster and canopied beds, cast-bronze fireplaces, stained-glass windows and sweeping water views.

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