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Zane Grey
You probably know him for his western novels, but did you know that Zane Grey was a pioneer of saltwater sport fishing. Pearl Zane Gray was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872. He would change his name to Zane Grey later in live. He attended the University of Pennsylvania Dental School where he played baseball on the varsity team. He graduated in 1896, and moved to New York City where he opened a dental office. He began writing and Harper's eventually published his books. Zane Gray was to become Americana's first author millionaire. Grey moved to Long Key in the Florida Keys where he fell in love with sport fishing and eventually moved to California. He formed his own motion-picture company in 1919, Zane Grey Productions, but soon sold out to Jesse Lasky. Lasky and a partner, Adolph Zukor, later formed Paramount Pictures. A total of 46 full-length movies and 31 short subjects were made from Zane Grey writings. 99 formal books were published, 196 magazine short stories and 59 stories published in then popular serial form. He traveled the world exploring the Galapagos Islands, Cocos Island, and the Mexican coast. His love of the outdoors carried him to adventure and fame. He landed some of the biggest fish caught in his time and traveled the world in search of yellowtail, striped marlin, silver marlin, dolphin, bluefin tuna, blue marlin and sharks, including an 800 pound Great White he caught in Australian in 1937.
Although Grey chased a variety of salt-water adversaries his passion was Xiphais Gladius or the broadbill swordfish, he even named one of his boats Gladiator, after this fish. In ten years of hunting the broadbill, he succeeded in landing only 24. That's actually quite a feat considering the tackle of the time and the fact that the fastest boats of the time hit a top speed of 10 knots. Grey held ten world records for large game fish. He was the first person to catch a fish over 1,000 pounds on rod and reel (1,040- pound blue marlin in 1930, Tahiti).
His last recognized world-record catch, for a 618-pound silver marlin, was not beaten until 1953.
Zane also wrote several fishing books. Zane Grey died October 23, 1939, at the age of 67 -
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