Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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