Riviera Yachts Zane Grey Captains Meeting

**Admin** · 09-16-2007 11:49 PM

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Well we just finished the captains meeting for the Zane Grey and I’m very excited for the next couple days. We are learning and meeting so many great people out here. Today we also completed a video interview with Captain Steve Lassley on the Bad Company. We also got to spend the day pre-fishing and getting some knowledge on Making Bait.

We will be out chasing the boats around tomorrow and will bring you all the action for the next couple days each evening.
I do believe we have around 27 boats fishing this event and I will post up the correct figures when I get them.
Capt John Eppehimer

The Riviera Zane Grey Invitational

Marlin Tournament is the most exclusive fishing tournament in California.
Zane Grey, a classic literary writer famous for his most popular book Riders of the Purple Sage, arrived in Catalina for the first time in 1918. Zane not only proved to be a fantastic writer, but quite a fisherman also. He developed a passion for "Big Game" fishing

and became a legend in California sportfishing for his angling accomplishments. Tuna, Marlin, Swordfish and Sharks were among some of his record-breaking catches that led him to develop tackle and design the first "sportfisher".

This tournament was designed to memorialize the great writer and to acknowledge his leadership role in modern day sportfishing. Being that his passion and his home were in Catalina, it was only natural that we name the tournament after him. Limited to a maximum of 45 teams, participants represent the best marlin fishermen in the West. Boasting a cash purse over $350,000.00, anglers engage in friendly competition over the four day event.

A modified release format rewards points for released marlin and fish weighed over our minimum weight. The tournament has achieved a 75% release rate of all marlin in the past seven years. The Riviera Zane Grey Invitational Marlin Tournament is the first marlin tournament in California to award major cash prizes for released marlin.