River fishing and watercraft book

[littleowl]

Had my first attempt at river trout on the Spean at Spean Bridge, when I was on holiday. A whole new ball game! Can anyone recommend a book on river fishing and watercraft? Something similiar to Headleys Loch fishers bible perhaps.

Thanks.

[Wildfisher]

Stan is not a river fisher, he'd be the first to tell you that. He is both a wonderful loch fisher  and modest, so he has not written The River Fishers Bible yet.    :lol:

This is a difficult question to answer, but I'd suggest getting hold of a few of Lou Stevens books - "The Trout and The Subsurface Fly",  "The Adaptable Fly fisher", "The Small Stream Dry Fly"  etc. He is a decent writer has fished in many countries and knows his stuff.  The books are pretty basic and that's exactly what you need when starting off.

The best tip I'd give anyone new to river fishing is face upstream, be stealthy, don't cast far and stay in control.

To be honest if I were you I'd buy a few Oliver Edwards DVDs they are much better than books, a delight to watch and you will learn a lot from them.

http://www.essential-skills.tv/

Start  with

Wet Fly Fishing on Rivers
Big Dry Flies for Fast Water

Then perhaps

Czech Nymphing / Upstream Nymphing and North Country Spiders

[Fishtales]

..................or watch them on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Oliver+Edwards

....and yes I know it isn't the full DVD's

[Harpo]

Aye watch the a Oliver Edwards videos, really good.
As are the Jonathan Barnes, on fly videos (if you can out up with his talking)

http://youtu.be/R2IhjGSGCYQ

This one on Mayfly is good, whilst we don't get many Mayfly in Scotland the principles of fishing a hatch apply

http://youtu.be/qH_Q5_4dvUk

Peter Lapsley's book, river fishing is decent as well if you want to read.

And as Fred said, face up stream, with one fly, dry or nymph and go for there. You can start fishing down and across but eventually you'll need to fish up stream so might as well do that from the start!

[littleowl]

Thanks for that, somewhere to start.