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The Book of the Sea Trout

其他書名	With Some Chapters on Salmon
出版	Cape, 1952
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LtcvAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Hamish Stuart had a remarkable gift for starting discussion. He would say something and instantly those who were not for him were against him and the fight was on. Thus he protested against the use of 14 ft. rods on Loch Lomond and, using shorter rods himself, suggested that more fish were lost by quick striking than by not striking at all. That argument did not come to an end at his death. Henry Lamond, for example, advises his readers to "adopt whatever implement or method Mr. Stuart decries', whereas Major Chrystal, whose Angling Theories and Methods is a detailed study of sea-trout fishing, says "the more I fish the more evidence I find to support Hamish Stuart ".... Stuart had published his Lochs and Loch Fishing in 1901 and was busy with his Book of the Sea Trout when, still a young man, he died at sea in May 1914. His friend, Rafael Sabatini, who had often discussed the plan of the book with him, put the book together after Stuart's death and described it as the distillation and concentration of the very best of all his contributions on the theoretical and practical sides of sea-trout angling. It was published in 1917 and has long been out of print, though a favourite book of those who are lucky enough to have a copy of the scarce first edition. Rafael Sabatini has died too, but in his last letters to another fisherman friend he expressed the hope that the book which he had editied as a labour of love should be published again. Here it is, a book of controversial theory, of practical wisdom, and of infectious pleasure in the art of sea-trout fishing by one of the most successful exponents that art has ever had." -- dust jacket.