WELL ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR....PRE - BIG ROCK TOURNAMENT TIME............THE TIME THAT I MAKE MY ANNUAL PILMAGRIGE GRAVESIDE OF THE MASTER......THE LEGEND: ZANE GREY........
ITS THE INSPIRATION ...........THE SPIRITUAL AUROA THAT SHROUDS THIS OFFSHORE MONOLITH.......THAT SENDS ME BECKONING...........HE WAS A GREAT ONE.....MY FRIEND ZANE........
A MAN WHO FISHED 300 DAYS A YEAR....WORLDWIDE..........A MAN WHO WROTE OF WILD WEST LORE ............SO ARTICULATE.........SO VIVID ,...ONE CAN TASTE THE SAGE BRUSH AND HEAR VIVID CATTLE CALLS WHILE READING.............I WIPE PRARIE DUST FROM MY BROW GRASPING EACH CHAPTER
DID HE USE A GPS? HELL NO...TIAGRAS? HELL NO.......1910 WAS THE YEAR OF ....OF.....HECK I'M REALLY NOT SURE WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE YEARS OF 1910 -1933................BUT MY MAN ZANE SET THE STANDARD IN THE WORLD OF BIG GAME FISHING.....HIS WRITINGS OF HIS OFFSHORE ADVENTURES ARE STILL IN PRINT TODAY
HE ALSO CREATED A WRITING STYLE OF WESTERN EPICS THAT STILL TODAY ARE MASTERPIECES WE ALL HAVE COME TO LOVE....HIS NOVELS WERE CONVERTED TO MOTION PICTURES ONLY AFTER HIS SORROWED DEATH..........
ZANE , I...... KNOW...... YOU WERE WITH THE BEAST AND MYSELF THIS PAST FIVE DAYS OFFSHORE.............I COULD VISION YOUR SMILE AS THAT SLOB PILED ON "SEAPRO'S" BAIT ON FRIDAY..........YOU SURELY WERE IN AWE AS WE RELEASED THE TWO BLUE ONES ON THE DINK ROD....................""WHAT'S A DINK ROD YOU ASK? DUDE,......LIGHT TACKLE BABY....SHIMANO TLD 25...........SMALL DINK HOOK...NAKED BALLYHOO"......................NO...NO , NOT CHICANO!!!!! S-H-I-M-A-N-O......................THEY ARE FAMOUS ROD/REEL BUILDERS IN JAPAN!
YOU ASK....."WHO WERE THE TWO YOUNGSTERS IN THE PIT ON THE 'RUN-OFF" LAST SUNDAY? THAT WAS PHILLIP AND JASON,.....SONS OF SPORTFISHERMEN'S OWN "SEA BISCUIT"
WHAT??!! YOU COULDN'T SEE THE ACTION ? OH NO ZANE!!!!! OH I GOTCHA....HEAVY CLOUD COVER EHH !!!................WELL DUDE.......MAYBE YOU WILL ENJOY THIS! ........YOU CALLED THEM MOTION PICTURES.............TODAY WE CALL THEM VIDEOS.......THAT'S RIGHT...VIDEOS............JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW ...."WHAT'S A LINK?" ...............UHHHH..........NEVERMIND, I'LL DO IT FOR YOU..........NOW LETS CRANK UP THE VOLUME AND WATCH THESE TWO WORLD CLASS JR ANGLERS CATCH THEIR FIRST BLUE MARLIN AND SAILFISH !!!!..............
"WHO WAS OPERATING THE MOTION PICTURE MACHINE ?" YOU ASK...........
"THAT'D BE JAKE, OUR BUDDY JAKE....AKA..."OVERBOARD"..............RIGHT, I AGREE ........AN ACADEMY PERFORMANCE BEHIND THE LENS!!!!!!!"