Tony Hayter
Tony Hayter caught his first trout on a fly in 1953 and published his first angling article in Trout and Salmon in 1955 while still at school. A professional historian, he has edited, reviewed and published in the area of military history and other subjects, and since retiring has recommenced writing about angling. He had long been puzzled by the fact that no biographies of the two leaders in the development of chalk stream fishing, Halford and Skues, had ever been written, and in 2002 he began...See more
Tony Hayter caught his first trout on a fly in 1953 and published his first angling article in Trout and Salmon in 1955 while still at school. A professional historian, he has edited, reviewed and published in the area of military history and other subjects, and since retiring has recommenced writing about angling. He had long been puzzled by the fact that no biographies of the two leaders in the development of chalk stream fishing, Halford and Skues, had ever been written, and in 2002 he began to address this lack by publishing F.M. Halford and the Dry-Fly Revolution. With G.E.M Skues: A Biography he closes the gap once and for all. Tony now lives with his wife in a village in the south of Wiltshire with a chalk stream in the garden, where the trout, being part of the family, are admired and not fished for. See less
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