Salmonflies
Pteronarcys californica
The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
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This specimen keys to the Epeorus albertae group of species. Of the five species in that group, the two known in Washington state are Epeorus albertae and Epeorus dulciana. Of the two, albertae has been collected in vastly more locations in Washington than dulciana, suggesting it is far more common. On that basis alone I'm tentatively putting this nymph in albertae, with the large caveat that there's no real information to rule out dulciana.
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Wbranch on Jan 8, 2015January 8th, 2015, 2:04 pm EST
I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholders! These guys are frequently waxing poetically about the "lovely fish". Maybe they don't have any other species. I'm a bit confused - the poster is from Viet Nam but I'm pretty sure the fish were caught in some lakes in England. The countryside surely looks more like what I'd expect inland England to look like and not the lush vegetation of tropical Viet Nam.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
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