Grunion Grunion Invasion", "The Girls from Grun", and "The Grun Incident"). The Hillbillies prepare for an invasion of grunion, which they think are foreign invaders. F. Scott Fitzgerald included a scene in which the two main characters are on the beach during grunion mating season in his final unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon". Charles Bukowski in his book "Mockingbird Wish Me Luck" (Black Sparrow Press 1972) wrote several poems about grunion runs including "the hunt" and "grab for grunion". Below is an excerpt from "the hunt": Grunion Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, "L. tenuis",
USS Grunion the exact location indicated by the commander of the "Kano Maru". The sunken object had many characteristics typical of a submarine. In 2007, using a ROV, DSSI/Oceaneering returned to the site and took video recordings of the imploded remains of a submarine, which had markings in English, and propeller guards and limber holes identical to those of the "Grunion". The following year, the US Navy confirmed that the find was the "Grunion". Although it is not absolutely certain, the evidence strongly suggests that the "Grunion" was lost as a result of multiple torpedo failures during her encounter with the "Kano