George Edward MacKenzie Skues
(1858-1949)
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George Edward MacKenzie Skues, usually known as G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), 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. His second book, The Way of a Trout with a Fly (1921) is considered a seminal work on nymph fishing. According to Dr Andrew Herd, the British fly fishing historian, Skues:
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13 August 1858 St. Johns, Newfoundland
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| Died |
9 August 1949 (aged 90)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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