Rio Rusfin is flowing along the road 85 in Chilean part of the Tierra del Fuego.
We were camping near the road in the beech forest.
Rio Rusfin is a small creek flowing in wide valley. There are no trees or bushes in the creek floodplain.
The creek is 2-6 meters wide; average depth is 30-60 cm; some holes are up to 1,5 m deep.
Trout was feeding in deep riffles and in the upper parts of the pools
Regardless to the small size of a creek, in March there were mostly good size trout here
This old dredge was used during the Tierra del Fuego gold rush. It was long ago, in beginning of the 20 century. Now the river looks healthy regardless to the former mining activities. We all know how bad placer mining is for the trout streams... I am glad 100 years is enough for rehabilitaton.
Brown trout is nocturnal animal; it is biting flies even when fisherman is not able to see his fly and tippet
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