Alright you armchair entymologists...

[Longs for Cutts]

The abdomen looks more like a stonefly. Are the wings held flat atop the back or in a tent shape? If the former, it's a little winter stone. If the latter, it's a caddis.

[Chuck441]

Wings come out of the sides. Caddis.

Chuck

[LadyFisher]

Trav says a Alderfly. Not caddis. Google Alderfly and you will find a nice picture of your bug. [Trav]

[quivira kid]

Thanks, all! Guess I was headed down the right path... One of my goals this year is to keep my camera on me instead of at home. Get more bug, fish, and scenery pictures! Maybe contribute with a write-up or two.

PRM - I would say about a 16, yep.

Longs for Cutts - the wings were tent-shaped, not flat.

[kglissmeyer]

I agree with Alderfly.

Kelly

[quivira kid]

I think Miss Deanna and Trav might be onto something... That looks exactly like "my friend".

[Taxon]

LadyFisher-

Trav says a Alderfly. Not caddis.

Trav knows his insects. Most knowledgeable fly fishers would have assumed it was a caddisfly, perhaps one on steroids.

[Preston Singletary]

Definitely an alderfly. The alderfly looks very much like a caddis except it doesn't float. When it falls to the water it sinks and drowns. By the way, I think the word you're looking for is "entomologists". Entomology is the study of insects, etymology is the study of the origins of words. There is no such word as "entymology".

[flyman 3]

little black stonefly, wing flat on the back stone, wings like a tent caddis.alderfly i think has fuzzy around the back of wings. here in PA we have a black and brown stone that hatch in feb. and march, they climb on snow in water fish love them. we also have a large black stone in june. that stone looks to be big for the little black stone we have here flyman 3

[ducksterman]

flyman 3....are you saying those wings are flat?