Zane Grey On Fishing

by Edited by Terry Mort, Foreword by Loren Grey

• ISBN13: 9781592286645
• ISBN10: 159228664X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

"Zane Grey on Fishing offers some of the author's best writing: don't let this one get away!" --"Library Journal "The book is a selection of some of Grey's best work, and the stories and excerpts reveal a man who understood that angling is more than an activity. It is a lifestyle."--"Great Lakes Boating Though he made his name and his fortune as an author of Western novels, Zane Grey's best writing has to do with fishing. There he was free from the conventions of the Western genre and the expectations of the market, and he was able to blend his talent for narrative with his keen eye for detail and humor, much of it self-deprecating, into books and articles that are both informative and exciting. His first published fishing article appeared in 1902, and he continued to write books and articles on angling until his death in 1939. From the trout streams and bass rivers of the East to the steelhead rivers of the Northwest; from the offshore angling of Nova Scotia and California to the unexplored waters of New Zealand and the South Sea islands, Grey was constantly in motion, sometimes fishing three hundred days a year, always writing to support his passion. At one time or another he held more than a dozen saltwater records, yet he always returned from the big game to the freshwater streams he had learned to love as a boy. This book is a selection of some of Grey's best work, and the stories and excerpts reveal a man who understood that angling is more than an activity--it is a way of seeing, a way of being more fully a part of the natural world. No writer exceeds Zane Grey's ability to integrate the fishing experience with a world he saw so vividly.

Author Biography

TERRY MORT is the author of The Reasonable Art of Fly Fishing (page 159) and has contributed articles to a number of outdoor magazines. Recently he has turned to fiction with a particular interest in historical and western themes. He lives in Sonoita, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Loren Grey
Introduction	ix
Terry Mort
Lackawaxen	1	(16)
The Lord of Lackawaxen Creek	3	(14)
Southern California	17	(24)
Two Fights with Swordfish	19	(16)
Tuna at Avalon, 1919	35	(6)
Florida	41	(34)
Bonefish	43	(14)
from Rivers of the Everglades	57	(10)
Some Rare Fish	67	(8)
Nova Scotia	75	(28)
from Giant Nova Scotia Tuna	77	(26)
Pacific Northwest	103	(36)
At the Mouth of the Klamath	105	(17)
from Rocky Riffle	122	(10)
from Down River	132	(3)
from Rocky Riffle	135	(1)
more from Rocky Riffle	135	(3)
Three Years Later, Again on the Rogue	138	(1)
New Zealand	139	(38)
Black Marlin	141	(15)
The Tongariro River and The Dreadnaught Pool	156	(21)
Tahiti	177	(20)
Nato Fishing	179	(3)
Marlin!	182	(15)
Australia	197	(24)
from An American Angler in Australia	199	(22)
Mexico	221	(24)
Zihuatanejo Bay	223	(15)
Byme-by-Tarpon	238	(7)
The Galapagos	245
The Galapagos	247