George Edward MacKenzie Skues, usually known as G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), was a British lawyer, writer and fly fisherman. He invented modern-day nymph fishing. This caused a controversy 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 Andrew Herd, the British fly fishing historian, Skues: (From Wikipedia)
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Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie): Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream, and Kindred Studies (second edition; London: A. and C. Black, 1914)
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Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie): Minor tactics of the chalk stream, and kindred studies. (A. & C. Black, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)- Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie): The way of a trout with a fly and some further studies in minor tactics (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie): The way of a trout with a fly and some further studies in minor tactics ... (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie): The way of a trout with a fly and some further studies in minor tacties. (A. & C. Black, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
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