Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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