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I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

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Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes, said his keeper.

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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:
  1. The Way of a Trout with the Fly (1921)
  2. Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream (1910)
  3. Itchen memories
  4. The essential G.E.M. Skues

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