Megalops: An Angler's Affair with Tarpon

by Tosh Brown

From Key West to Belize to Venezuela, Tosh Brown's career as a sporting travel agent allowed him to passionately pursue this big-eyed behemoth of the Atlantic. This is his insightful and humorous account of more than a decade chasing the Silver King with a fly rod, adding some heartfelt commentary and discussion, as well as a storied history of the tarpon fishery along his native Texas coast. This new Meadow Run Press book is illustrated with a full-color section of the author’s stunning photographs along with never before seen photographs of some spectacular early tarpon fishing by some daring and adventurous fishermen.

65 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Tosh has written and photographed four non-fiction books. He has also edited reprints of the classic sporting editions, Hunting and Fishing in Texas (Hart Stilwell 1946) and The Book of the Tarpon (A.W. Dimock 1911). From 2003 to 2005 Tosh wrote the back page column for Fly Fishing in Salt Waters magazine. His writing currently appears in a number of angling and shooting magazines, including Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Drake, and Flyfish Journal. Essays and short fiction about wing shooting, fly fishing, and sporting travel are his specialty.

Tosh graduated from the University of Texas in 1986 and currently lives in Austin with his wife, Kathy, and their children Blake and Emily.