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What’s Fishotopia?
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Fishotopia Is The Online Home Of Starlo & Jo, Australia’s Best-Loved Fishing Couple. It’s Also The Most Entertaining & Informative Online Hangout For Aussie Anglers. If You Can’t Be Fishing, Fishotopia Is The Next Best Thing.
Fishotopia’s public access portals provide a convenient “casting deck” into the broad range of touch-points, services and information offered by Starlo and Jo across the internet. Staying connected with them all will help you reach the top of your fishing game and become one of those “10 per centers” who catch 90 per cent of the fish.
But there is SO much more unbelievable fishing intel and content, hidden away behind the Membership Login.
Premium Membership gives you quick access to angler insights, information and entertainment that will enhance your fishing experiences — as well as discounts in the Fishotopia shop.
Only Premium Members gain access to Starlo’s Inner Circle, where they can join our exclusive social network (and chat directly with Starlo and his guests), hang out in our Fisho’s Library and Lounge (watching and reading content unavailable anywhere else on the web) and receive exclusive invitations to Inner Circle events.
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You read correctly… the only way to benefit from, two-way communication with Starlo is through his Inner Circle! This allows him to focus his attention entirely on those like-minded fishos who genuinely value his decades of research, experience and success.
If you’re a serious angler… possibly even an addicted angler (like Starlo & Jo), then you belong in Starlo’s Inner Circle!
Members of this exclusive club are committed to becoming the “one percenters”. As such, they enjoy direct access to Starlo (and each other) through a totally private social forum that is set to become the “thinking anglers’ meeting place”.
But that’s just the beginning. As part of Starlo’s Inner Circle, you also have full access to a growing library of incredibly detailed and immersive how-to features, in-depth articles, magazines, e-books and even activities for the kids… AND you receive personal invitations to members-only events and get-togethers, as well as news of deals and new releases before they’re made public… PLUS web-series, videos and podcasts that no one outside the group can access.
Membership to Starlo’s Inner Circle is, without question, the best way to fast-track your fishing success… it’s like having Starlo and Jo standing right beside you every time you cast a line!
Fishotopia is a brilliant concept with a legitimately exciting future. Whilst the Inner Circle is a grander concept than a “fishing forum” per se, I can see it succeeding where other online communities have failed.
I think there are two main reasons for people leaving fishing forums: they either outgrow them or find a better alternative. In the case of Fishotopia, the former is impossible: I can’t imagine any angler thinking there’s nothing to be gained from conversations with you two. One of the biggest differences between yourselves and lesser fishing writers is that you’re actually willing to volunteer the critical knowledge required to actually get immediate benefit. Your writings are always gold. As you continue to learn, we’ll continue to learn... and on and on indefinitely. I don’t think anyone’s going to outgrow Fishotopia!
Then there’s the chance of finding a superior alternative... for years, social media has eroded the user base of fishing forums, but it can’t compete with the Inner Circle when you guys also release quality, exclusive content!
OUR VISION is for every Australian fisher to enjoy rich and satisfying experiences while fishing — now, and forever — and for all Australians to embrace the positive influence that recreational fishing can have on our society.
Fishotopia’s MISSION
The Inner Circle’s MISSION
Recreational fishing is Australia’s heritage. It’s intrinsically woven into the fabric of our culture. When you think about it, it has the power to heal many of our society’s woes… but you have to THINK about it.
Not only does it get us off our butts, away from our screens and back into the wilds, it teaches us about ecosystems, their fragility and our place in them, as both predator and protector. It teaches us empathy, as well as humility — and much, much more… when you think about it.
~Jo Starling, co-founder of Fishotopia.
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New Website Showcases Best Practice Fish Screen Management
Implementing screens can save millions of fish per year, and such an undertaking requires close collaboration between government, academics, farmers, manufacturers and fishers.
Snowy Hydro 2.0 Recreational Fishing Offset A Win For Fishos, Thanks To Monaro Acclimatisation Society.
President of the Monaro Acclimatisation Society, Steve Samuels with a quality Snowy Mountains' trout. "We are determined to protect the quality of the Snowy Mountains trout fishery from redfin and this announcement is a critical step in that process", he says. Over...
Victoria’s Regional Boating Infrastructure Under Review — You Can Help!
The Victorian Department of Transport is looking at ways to improve how recreational boating infrastructure across regional Victoria is managed and they need your help. Recreational boating facilities are diverse in regional Victoria and must cater for different...
Do You Know What This Is?
The folk at OceanWatch are seeking help to identify this piece of marine debris. Any ideas? The team at Tangaroa Blue recently found this device on one of their beach cleans. It was classified as fishing gear but OceanWatch are not quite sure what it is exactly....
Barra’Prentice Gets Sister Team
Not only does The Barra’Prentice program build self-reliant and empowered female anglers, it also builds strong bonds between team mates. At the end of every program, we find it very hard to cut the bow lines and set our newly graduated ’Prentice adrift. That’s why...
Gap-titude Test
Have you heard “The Church Of The Wandering Stream”, a song by Ben Winship and David Thompson? I’ve been singing it a lot lately. Nature is a wonderful mentor and, if there were such a church, she’d be its highest deity. This past month has been extremely...
The Ugly Truth Plaguing Rec’ Fishing
OMG! Are you as gobsmacked as I am over the discordant cacophony of babble and bullying that surrounds the concept of guarding the health of our fish stocks? It’s like living in the fable of Babel — with the incessance of social media dumped on top! Some folks are...
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…from the public blog
- SPANISH MACKEREL STOCKS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE July 3, 2021The on-line publication of an ABC News item on 14 June, 2021, marked the first time most of us had heard about a startling new assessment concerning the depletion of Spanish mackerel stocks along the eastern seaboard of Australia. According to this news report, a meeting of the East Coast Spanish Mackerel Working Group in […]
- COULD CITIZEN SCIENCE SAVE RECREATIONAL FISHING? December 30, 2019Below is a copy of the transcript of my talk at the 2019 National Recreational Fishing Conference in Hobart, accompanied by some of the screen shots from my PowerPoint presentation: To introduce myself and give you some background: I’ve been a keen recreational angler for over half a century, and for the past 40 years, […]
In this uncertain times, a little compassion goes a very long way. Here is a little compassion exercise that I hope can help calm the fraught souls who a struggling…
I found another bruiser, hiding behind a snag! Again, it took a desperate fight to get this old fella out... he wrapped me around some submerged timber at one stage, but giving him a little slack saw him charge into the open, thankfully 😅 He...
If you are a serious angler… possibly even an addicted angler (as we are), then you belong in Starlo’s Inner Circle!
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for the ambitious angler- join:+ BONUS FOR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS ($11/year saving)
- Starlo Gets Reel video reviews
- Starlo Gets Reel instructional videos
- A Beer With Starlo video & podcast series + Invitation only competitions, events, social get-togethers.
- Access to Steve “Starlo” Starling for advice & discussion via the Inner Circle Forum
- Invitation to join the Inner Circle Premium Club
- Monthly eZineFishotopian
- Inner Circle Library membership (includes access to interactive, immersive versions of all eBooks in our Shop) Access to Fishotopia Shop
- 10% Members Discounts on all items in the Fishotopia Shop
- Access exclusive Members Only products + Quick Link to Starlofishing Reviews & public blogs
- Quick Link to FlyGearGapYear.com blog + Quick Link to Jo Starling Creative (marketing & promotions for the recreational fishing industry)
- * Price listed is GST inclusive.
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for anyone interested in fishing- Starlo Gets Reel video reviews
- Starlo Gets Reel instructional videos
- A Beer With Starlo video & podcast series
- Invitation only competitions, events, social get-togethers
- Access to Steve “Starlo” Starling for advice & discussion via the Inner Circle Forum
- Invitation to join the Inner Circle Premium Club Monthly eZineFishotopian (registration required)
- Inner Circle Library membership (includes access to all eBooks in our Shop) Access to Fishotopia Shop
- Access to Inner-Circle Member discounts & exclusive products
- Quick Link to Starlofishing Reviews & public blogs
- Quick Link to FlyGearGapYear.com blog
- Quick Link to Jo Starling Creative (marketing & promotions for the recreational fishing industry)
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