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 Pacific on 24 May. A week later, as she transited the Caribbean Sea for Panama, she rescued 16 survivors of the USAT "Jack", which had been torpedoed by the , and conducted a fruitless search for 13 other survivors presumed to be in the vicinity. Arriving at Coco Solo on 3 June, the "Grunion" landed the survivors and continued on to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 20 June. Departing Hawaii on 30 June after ten days of intensive training, the "Grunion" touched Midway Island before heading toward the Aleutian Islands for her first war patrol. Her first report, made as