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 for trout with a sunken line, he fought a great battle over many years with orthodox fly fishing practise - the dry fly. In winning this battle for us, George Skues began a landslide in freshwater entomology and championed a whole new method of fishing.
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