TROUBLE FOR TROUT
Spinning Up to Date. By "Jock Scott." Seeley Service. 266 pp. (12s 6d net,)
It is the misfortune of New Zealand anglers that much that is written on the sport by Englishmen is totally inapplicable to New Zealand conditions. This may be said of "Jock Scott's'' latest contribution to the literature of angling; but his method of putting forward his theories is as entertaining as ever and his pleading is as plausible. Though British conditions were in the mind of the author while he was writing, much of what he says could be profitably applied in New Zealand. In essence, he records the conclusions he has drawn from a thorough study of the • American bait-casting method of spinning, and he makes this form, unorthodox in Britain and hardly less revolutionary here, appear to be the logical product of the evolution of modern spinning. "Jock Scott" has written a great deal on fishing. He claims to be an exponent in a scientific way of the new form, and not a partisan. His arguments from his experiments and experience are, indeed, remarkably convincing.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22337, 26 February 1938, Page 20
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