G. E. M. Skues Quotes

United Kingdom, Lawyer
August 13, 1858 – 1949.

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.

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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.

G. E. M. Skues
- Forever
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

G. E. M. Skues
- Art
- Fly
- Fishing

The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.

G. E. M. Skues
- Men
- Sea
- Lakes