ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1998). 1998 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,260. B/w photographs, illustrations by Alex and Charles Jardine, bibliography. Cream boards, spine titled in black. Minor faults but very good in dust-wrapper. A good collection, including some previously unpublished material and photographs. A nice introduction to the wit and intelligence of the father of nymph fishing. Chapters include: The life of G.E.M. Skues; Boyhood fishing days; Fishing with Skues; Skues and the trout; Fly dressing; Fly patterns; Skues and the nymph; Entomology; Rods and lines; Skues on the river; Skues the tactician; Skues the observer; Skues the humorist; Famous fly fishermen; Dry fly; wet fly: Halford, Skues and the nymph; Skues and the Itchen; End pieces. The book includes a foreword by John Goddard and an afterword by Robert H. Berls. . Seller Inventory # 26718

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Title: THE ESSENTIAL G.E.M. SKUES. Edited by ...

Publisher: A & C Black. London. 1998

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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George Edward Mackenzie Skues fished from boyhood until he was 87, and became an expert in every aspect of fly fishing including entomology, fly dressing and fly patterns, and fly fishing techniques, methods and tactics. This book collects together some of Skues's best writings on fly fishing.

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