Tales of Tahitian Waters

[1][2] The book collects several fishing stories and was first published by Harper Brothers and was later republished in 1990 by Derrydale Press.

He had passed through Tahiti en route to other fishing expeditions in Australia and New Zealand, and had heard of 30-foot-long (9.1 m) marlin and 50-foot-long (15 m) sharks.

Amongst other trials, Tales of Tahitian Waters records an 83-day span during which Grey did not catch a single billfish.

[5][6][7] Carlton Jackson wrote in his 1989 book Zane Grey: On the eighty-fourth day, he caught, with rod and reel, a giant Tahitian marlin that weighed 1,040 founds.

[8] Grey's Tahiti expeditions were months at a time, and he built a permanent camp at Vairao, a beach he describes in superlatives.