Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
G. E. M. Skues
Born: August 13, 1858
Died: August 9, 1949 (aged 90)
Bio: George Edward MacKenzie Skues, usually known as G. E. M. Skues, was a British lawyer, author and fly fisherman most noted for the invention of modern-day nymph fishing and the controversy it caused with the Chalk stream dry fly doctrine developed by Frederic M. Halford.
Known for:
- The Way of a Trout with the Fly (1921)
- Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream (1910)
- Itchen memories
- The essential G.E.M. Skues