The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
Several stoneflies of this species were flying around a small stream last night. I tied on a brown drake imitation of about the right size/color to approximate these stones, and was rewarded with a hard-fighting 17-inch brown trout.
This stonefly was collected from Cayuta Creek in New York on July 7th, 2006 and added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on July 8th, 2006.