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Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

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This is a very good book as far as reading goes. You could also learn a few things in the process. There are many "how-to" books out there and a true adventure-fishing story can be a refreshing change. So if you are interested in good, entertaining real life fishing stories or accounts, pick this book up.

It is an amazing insight into the days gone by, the abundance of fish and how close to shore they could be caught.

I could not help but notice certain pent up anger and arrogance in the text directed at other pioneering anglers that I felt was unjustified, unfair and may be even incorrect. If this book is not a tribute to pioneering big-game anglers it certainly a tribute to Zane Grey himself. But all in all it was a bloody good read.

It is only in my dreams that I will ever see fish the size and in the abundance that Zane Grey and other pioneers of big game sportfishing have seen. As an avid big game fisherman I always dream of the day that I will hook into a monster swordfish or tuna such as Zane Grey has. Any fisherman can relate to the persistance and effort that Zane Grey put into every outing he made and then putting it in writing for those who could not do so themselves. In the days when Zane was fishing nothing yet was exploited and it is great to read about the way things used to be and hope that one day we will be able to restore our oceans to there once primative state.