The river Kuusinki is the smallest of the three larger rivers in Kuusamo, Finland. Still, it is renown as an excellent fly-fishing river and once hosted the world fly-fishing championship. Its attraction lies in a population of wild brown trout that migrates every year up from the White Sea for spawning.
So it was for fishing that I first visited the river many years ago. And usually in September water levels in the river are relatively low (even though there are deep pockets of water). This year, however, I had already been warned by locals that water levels were unusually high. That often indicates bad fishing, but also for a photographer it changes the scene in significant ways.
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