Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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