THE TROUT BOOK: A COMPLETE ANGLER'S GUIDE. By Frank Sargeant. Book IV in the Inshore Series.

1992 1st edition. 8vo paperback (136 x 214mm). Pp152 + 8pp ads. B/w photographs. Black card covers printed in yellow.

A guide to fishing for America's spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus, occasionally known as speckled seatrout)". Jammed with tips from the nation's leading trout guides and light tackle anglers, The Trout Book is must reading for all who pursue the spotted weakfish, or seatrout, throughout the coastal waters of the Gulf and Atlantic. Every aspect of locating and catching trout is covered, and many secrets of trout behavior are revealed here for the first time". Chapters include:- Introduction - the spotted seatrout; Trout smarts; Topwater trout; In search of monster trout; It's the real thing; Getting the drift; Jigs and spoons; It's hot when it's cold - winter trout; Trout of the lonesome leg and the panhandle; Anclote - the lost keys to west coast angling; Rites of spring at Charlotte Harbor; Sarasota Bay; Spring creek trout; Tampa Bay and the west central coast; Florida's east coast and the Everglades; Gulf coast trout - Alabama to Texas; Georgia and the Carolinas; Grass roots conservation; Trout guides; Trout cookery; Trout biology and conservation.