ephemeres

A propos du livre d'Alfred Ronalds
The Fly-Fisher's Entomology (1836)
[L'entomologie du pêcheur à la mouche]

About Alfred Ronalds' book The Fly-Fisher's Entomology (1836)
[The Fly-Fisher's Entomology]

Updated with comments and illustrations by Paul Troël

First French translation

The book, ‘About Alfred Ronalds’ The Fly-fisher's Entomology’, was produced with the help of our Welsh friends at Coch-y-Bonddu Books for translation and design. It is part of the fine collection of Coch-y-Bonddu Angling Monographs (No. 17).
The French version will be released on 14 October 2024. For France, a series of 100 numbered and signed books.
Coch-y-Bonddu will reserve a further 40 copies for sale from its catalogue for its other French-speaking customers around the world, but the price will be higher. see here :
https://www.anglebooks.com/paul-troel-angling-monographs-series-volume-fifteen.html
In parallel, Coch-y-Bonddu Books will later publish an English version of this book in a much larger print run.
This work, an annotated translation of a monument of British fishing literature, is intended to be a beautiful book of 236 pages with some 240 illustrations, in format (19 cm x 25cm) on very fine 120 g, indigo, Arena Rough natural paper - 300 g flap cover.
This is a book off the beaten track, which has aroused the interest of our Welsh friends to such an extent that they have decided to publish this new version in the UK. It should also please our French friends.

Alfred Ronalds' Fly-Fisher's Entomology was the first book to bridge the gap between fly-fishing and entomology, and its high-quality illustrated plates helped to make it famous. First published in 1836, and reprinted 17 times in Britain, the USA and recently in Japan, its content inspired our French authors, but it was never translated into French until now.
This new version, through the history of the various editions, also deserved an update of the classification of describeb insects by Ronalds, then by Piscator, which I undertook.
I also took an interest in Piscator's personality, and at the wallet-fly 'Companion to Alfred Ronalds's Fly Fisher's Entomology' produced in the wake of the book. Over the last twenty years, I have identified 18 different models, and redesigned their title pages, with comments.
These revisions had never been made. Paul Morgan and his team at Coch-y-Bonddu Books were invaluable in helping me with the translation and certain details.
I also did a great deal of work on the illustrations for the book, in particular reproducing the original insect and fly plates as faithfully as possible.

Ronalds' book is a milestone in the history of fly fishing. It would have deserved to be in our French libraries sooner.

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River maps
(overview below)

The 'Maison de la Rivière et de la Biodiversité' in Sizun, Finistère, is offering a series of four volumes (format 30 x 30 cm - 100 pages) of drawings produced over the last twenty-five years by Paul Troël, administrator of the association Pêche Rivière Environnement, which runs the establishment.
The first volume contains 91 illustrated maps of the rivers of the Massif Armoricain, including 22 previously unpublished maps and others that have been revised.
The next three volumes, 100 copies in the same format, are also available. They include drawings of mayflies, artificial flies and various illustrations produced around the river. This project is entirely supported by the Maison de la Rivière et de la Biodiversité, for its exclusive benefit.

More details on the MRB de Sizun website

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Our book , 2 editions : « Les merveilleux éphémères des rivières de France et d’ailleurs »

2010: 256 p. ; 2016: 288 p. - in French.
Around a hundred full-page illustrations
( plus d'infos ).

(No sale of drawings. - Reproduction forbidden without the author's agreement - no commercial use).

This work, begun some thirty years ago, has no scientific pretensions. To satisfy your research needs, the author would refer you to the OPIE-Benthos site, which deals with aquatic insects and inventories of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera in France: http://www.opie-benthos.fr/opie/insecte.php (the old site www.invfmr.org is no longer up to date) or to the scientific journal ‘EPHEMERA’, to which some of Europe's most eminent entomologists contribute - (subscription details for this journal on the Benthos site).
The very fine journal ‘Insectes’ also has some interesting articles on aquatic insects.
The drawings presented on this site were mainly used to illustrate the publications of the Association Bretonne pour la Pêche à la Mouche and the book Les merveilleux Ephémères des rivières de France et d'ailleurs.