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“See that foam line under the cypress tree? Cast into it.”Alvin Dedeaux says this in an offhand manner, with a slight drawl, and the effect makes the directive sound more like a suggestion. This nonchalance is not typical of fishing guides. But the 58-year-old, with his cool demeanor, big laugh, and trademark dreadlocks flowing out from beneath his trucker’s hat, has never been mistaken for a typical guide.As he quietly rows to keep us in place against the current of the lower Colorado River, a stone’s throw from Austin’s Tesla Gigafactory, I follow his advice and cast into the foam. My fly, a crayfish pattern Dedeaux tied himself, smacks the surface. After a few seconds’ pause to let it sink, I strip the line in…
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