Over the course of a year, Pete McDonald and Tosh Brown followed an immeasurable biomass of predators and prey on their annual oceanic migration from Maine to North Carolina.From Casco Bay to The Outer Banks, they shot photographs, burned video footage, and interviewed an eclectic cast of anglers, guides, merchants, and fly tiers. They filled rent cars with sand, they fought ill-mannered dogs in cheap motels, and they boosted convenience store profits in nine different states.Departure Publishing is proud to present The Blitz, Fly Fishing the Atlantic Migration. Through McDonald's turn of phrase, and Brown's eye for imagery, they have created an engaging and comprehensive view of the beaches, tidal rips, birds, bait, and gamefish of the Eastern Seaboard. This is not a how-to-where-to guidebook; it's an offbeat celebration of the unique and vibrant fly-fishing culture of striped bass, bluefish, tuna, bonito, false albacore, redfish, and other nearshore pelagics.Joining McDonald and Brown in this collaboration are celebrated East Coast photographers, Dave Skok, Brian Horsley, Sarah Gardner, Jim Levison, Matt Boutet, Sam Talarico, Barry and Cathy Beck, and others.If you're partial to crashing surf, panicked baitfish, diving birds, and busting fish, this book is the perfect complement to your fly-fishing collection.

The Blitz: Fly Fishing The Atlantic Migration

Pete McDonald

Tosh Brown

Departure Publishing LLC

From his early years with bass bugs and soggy sneakers, Tosh Brown takes us on a forty-year odyssey of rivers and oceans from Alaska to the Amazon.
Top of the Flood begins in the summer of 1976 and ends on Tosh's 50th birthday with an evolved realization that the fish count is a minor component of the larger scene, and that one can grow old without becoming an old geezer.
With volumes of published fly-fishing photographs, Tosh is well known for his skill with a camera. But as you'll discover in this book, he also has a rare talent for arranging words on paper. Not only can Tosh do both, he excels at both. He's like the Deion Sanders of freelancers, minus man-to-man coverage ability.
Writing humor is a lot harder than most people think, yet Tosh makes it look easy. His humble style fits well with his frequent Texas cultural references, and he presents an honest, unfiltered portrait of each destination that he visits.
I've chased redfish with Tosh in South Louisiana, and bonefish and snook, via kayak, in the Yucatan. He brings a unique perspective along on every adventure, and he transcribes them into stories with proficiency and candor. If the second half of his life reads as well as the first, I look forward to the sequel.
Tom Bie Publisher The Drake

Top of the Flood: Halfway Through a Fly-Fishing Life

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.

Megalops: An Angler's Affair with Tarpon

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Meadow Run Pr

"In this text the author gives us the most comprehensive hunting and fishing pictorial ever published on the Texas coast."

Texas Tides: An Angling & Shooting Chronology

Collectors Covey

348 oversized illustrated pages on hunting and eating one's way up and down the second-largest State, organized by region and supplier. A lavish production indeed.

Grazing Across Texas: Rod, Gun & Ranch Cooking