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Megalops An Angler’s Affair With Tarpon by Tosh Brown - 6×9 hardbound with handmade slipcase $49.50 signed
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Megalops In the spring of 2000, Tosh Brown began jotting down some thoughts on tarpon while returning home from his annual fly-fishing trip to Key West. At that point he’d been chasing the silver king for a decade, and he wasn’t exactly sure what he was trying to express in words. With no previous writing credits, he eventually organized a series of essays that was entirely too long for a magazine, yet significantly too short for a mass market book publisher. Through fate and introductions the manuscript eventually landed on the desk of Bill Trego and Meadow Run Press. A year later Megalops, An Angler’s Affair With Tarpon was published as a limited edition hardbound. Megalops is a heartfelt and offbeat reflection on Tosh’s early years of tarpon fishing while he operated a small sporting travel agency. With stops in the Keys, The Yucatan, and Belize, he details his early blunders and victories with tarpon and ponders the return of a once-proud fishery in a small coastal town that was originally called Tarpon, Texas. Today, there are only a few copies remaining from the original printing of Megalops. This is your chance to own a first edition of a collectible book that will soon lapse from print. When they’re gone, they’re gone. |
Tosh Brown Tosh is a native Texan who splits his time between sporting photography, writing, and small press publishing. He has authored and photographed four books, and his hunting, fishing, and travel images have appeared in dozens of magazines, books, and ad campaigns. Tosh graduated from The University of Texas in 1986 and lives in Austin with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he tends to an ongoing affliction with fish, birds, fly rods, and shotguns. To see more of Tosh’s outdoor stock and assignment imagery, please visit his website ToshBrown.com. |
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| It’s a rare fishing book these days that leaves you wanting more, but Tosh Brown’s Megalops fits the bill nicely. Brown has authored a lively and thoughtful homage to tarpon; a well drawn account of a healthy obsession. - Gray’s Sporting Journal
As the subtitle suggests, this isn’t a how-to book; Brown weaves a combination of humor, whimsy, history, speculation and some genuinely great fish stories to capture the obsession with tarpon. What makes Megalops shine is the writing. It has style and voice, rarities in the fishing book business. - Saltwater Fly Fishing |
Brown pours out the details of his passion for tarpon in this charming little book; a book that’s not only pleasing to read, but also pleasing to own. - Fly Fishing Salt Waters
There’s tactical information in Megalops, but (Brown) mostly remains bemused by various debates; his job isn’t to offer answers, rather to share affection and sing hallelujah to the choir, to drop a few stories and laughter into the plate of collected lore. - Fly Rod & Reel |
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