The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
This specimen was collected along with a female which was quite a bit larger, different in color, but otherwise seemed the same morphologically.
This mayfly was collected from Holder Creek in Washington on April 12th, 2021 and added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 13th, 2021.