• 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...
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  • Skues is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), British lawyer, writer and fly fisherman Keith Skues (born 1939)...
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    Minor Tactics is a fly fishing book written by G. E. M. Skues published in London in 1921. This was Skues's second book after Minor Tactics of the Chalk...
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    south of England. It was on the Itchen where he met and fished with G. E. M. Skues in 1891. Halford published four other books on dry-fly fishing before...
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    November 2009. Herd, Dr. Andrew N. "G.E.M. Skues". Fly Fishing History. Retrieved 17 November 2009. Skues, G. E. M. (1921). The Way of the Trout with a...
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    Letters of G.E.M. Skues. A & C Black. Hills, John Waller (1921). A History of Fly Fishing for Trout. Phillip Allan & Co. pp. 132–133. Skues, G. E. M. (1914)...
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    Neversink Rivers. In the early 20th century, British angler and author G. E. M. Skues pioneered nymphing techniques for brown trout on English chalk streams...
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    Studies is a fly fishing book written by G. E. M. Skues published in London in 1910. Minor Tactics was Skues's first book and set the stage for his ascendancy...
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  • Trout Madness (1960) and Trout Magic (1974) Seaforth & Soforth, G. E. M. Skues, Skues was a British lawyer, author and fly fisherman most noted for the...
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    these chalk streams, as G. E. M. Skues proved with his nymph and wet fly techniques. To the horror of dry-fly purists, Skues later wrote two books, Minor...
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