Customer Reviews

Mayflies: An Angler's Study of Trout Water Ephemeroptera

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This book by Malcolm Knopp and Robert Cormier is destined to be a fishing classic. The pair has provided research and usable information on maylfy identification, insect behavior during their life stages, imitative patterns and fishing technique pointers.

I have modified my fishing techniques to match the behaviours noted in the book.

I have also found it very useful in making flies that work on hard fished eastern waters.

The first book I know of that combines practical entemology (geared specifically to the angler) with up-to-date patterns, and methods of fishing them. The nearest thing to it in spirit is "Caddisflies". Should be in every serious flyfisher's collection!

Excellent descriptions on evey popular of mayfly from nymph to spinner stage. Authour tells where to find the nymph in the water, when they and how they hatch, if you want to tie your imitaition he even provideds receipies for every stage of the Mayflies life cycle you want to fish. As a novice angler and fly tier i found this book very helpful. I have surely became a better angler as a result.

This is an excellent book. It is extremely comprehensive and will give you all the written details. I only wish it would have had actual photographs to compare what you encounter against. They may have avoided this on purpose since there can be so many variations for any given bug, but I still like to compare photos against what I've seen. But on the whole - great, unbelievably comprehensive book.

This book, as noted by another reviewer, is first cousin in spirit to LaFontaine's classic Caddisflies. The material is well researched and takes the reader through the science, ultimately tying this information in with how to productively fish mayfly patterns. Having this volume on your shelf along with Caddisflies is a great start to building a serious angler's scientific library.

A reasonable addition to one's library;it is now somewhat dated. Its strengths are descriptive across many of the species and fairly complete color descriptions of the varying stages; its glaring weakness is impaired and absent color photography of the stages and especially of imitative fly patterns. One can obviously cross reference with other sources and catalogues to cover the weaknesses,but for a reference of this specificity,I feel these should be included in the textual material.The authors writing style is a bit unenthusiastic,but the tables and organization is acceptable. Overall,I was a bit disappointed.