Zane Grey

Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a baseball talent, dentist adventurer, fisherman and a very prolific and popular writer.  Grey was the author of more than 90 books, most of them westerns that gained huge popularity.  He became one of the first millionaire writers, with more than 40 million in book sales.  Many of his western books were adapted into films.

Grey also loved fishing, and found it helped inspire his writing.  For a time, he reportedly fished 300 days a year, with a special passion for saltwater fishing and exploring little-known places.  He wrote several fishing books based on his adventures.

Zane Grey fishing books:

Tales of Fishes (1919)

Tales of Southern Rivers (1924)

Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas (1925)

Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado, New Zealand (1926)

Tales of Swordfish and Tuna (1927)

Tales of Fresh Water Fishing (1928)

Tales of Tahitian Waters (1931)

An American Angler in Australia (1937)

Rogue River Feud (1948)

Adventures in Fishing (1953)

The Adventures of Finspot (1974)

The Reef Girl (1977)

Tales from a Fisherman’s Log (1978)

Angler’s Eldorado: Zane Grey in New Zealand (1982)

Tales of the Gladiator (2009)