BIG GAME FISHING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 100, 21 January 1939, Page 11

BIG GAME FISHING

Zane Grey On Way To

Australia

TO TRY INDIAN OCEAN LATER

Dominion Special Service.

AUCKLAND, January 20.

“1 think I can claim some credit for the fact that there are no fewer than 23 passengers on the ship travelling to New Zealand and Australia for big game fishing,” said Mr. Zane Grey, noted writer of western novels, who passed through Auckland by the Mariposa for his annual big game fishing trip.

Mr. Grey plans this year to travel further afield and will make an investigation of the sport in the Indian Ocean.

“From data 1 have secured I am sure the Indian Oceon, the least known of the oceans, has the biggest fish of ail,” said Mr. Grey. "I have been looking forward to this expedition for a long time and I hope I am going to get some verv big fish. I have heard of sailfish 30ft. to 40ft. long, and many other big fish. Whether I can get them Or not remains to be seen.” Mr. Grey will fish first off Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef, and will later try the waters of Adelaide in search of “white death sharks” weighing up to 12001 b., which have beeu landed there. For bis Indian Ocean venture he will use either Perth or Colombo as a base.

Accompanying Mr. Grey are a boatman and t wo cameraman who will take moving pictures of the fishing. Mr. Grey plans to write a book about his •searcli for fish in the Indian Ocean. Since his last visit, Mr. Grey said, he had been hard at work writing novels at him home at Pasadena, California. With flie experience he gained this year lie hoped to return in a later season with a larger expedition to fish the Indian Ocean. AMERICAN WRITER’S VISIT AUCKLAND, January 20. Prominent among big game fishermen who arrived from America by the Mariposa was Mr. Richard Sutton, an American writer whose - articles on sport in New Zealand have done much to bring it to the attention of anglers in the United States. Mr. Sutton, who is accompanied by his wife, also a keen angler, has made several previous visits to the Dominion. Mr. Sutton’s stay will lie comparatively short on this occasion. He will fish for 12 days at Tauranga and 12 days at Whangaroa, and will then leave for South Africa. He has been invited by the South African Government to survey the possibilities of the big game fishing grounds off those coasts. He plans to visit New Zealand again next year and stay three months.