The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
This egg packet was dropped from the specimen with the severely foreshortened abdomen in the other photo series. It's amazing how much abdominal length is given up in this process. The egg packet looked black in the hand.
This caddisfly was collected from the Fall River in California on May 12th, 2011 and added to Troutnut.com by Entoman on December 14th, 2011.