The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
I unfortunately lost some of the originals of this specimen, so I was only able to re-process about half the pictures in the 2023 update.
This hellgrammite was collected from Factory Brook in New York on April 24th, 2007 and added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 24th, 2007.