Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream And Kindred Studies

George Skues was a public school pupil at Winchester in Hampshire. Born in 1858, he is as remote to most of us as Izaak Walton. As a schoolboy, he fished the river Itchen and became as obsessed with trout fishing as any other man before or since. Following a career as a London solicitor, he would make a pilgrimage back the Itchen almost every weekend. George Skues was - in his own epoch - a revolutionary as radical as Che Guevara, but rather more mischievous. On behalf of everybody who fishes fo