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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, There Is No Better Place To Be In The Known Fishoverse!
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.
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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.
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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!
Ryan KeithOUR 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.
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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 Management Measures For Snapper In South Australia
New Management Measures For Snapper From 1 November 2019 new management measures will be introduced to achieve long-term improvement and return the Snapper fishery to sustainable stock levels. These measures have been introduced following consideration of the latest...
Sharing Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries Resources
The Federal Government’s Department of Agriculture is developing a framework for sharing Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries resources. The framework will provide a clear way to allocate and re-allocate fishing resources. It will be applied to Commonwealth-managed...
Gone Fishing Day Launches New Website
Sunday 20th October 2019 - Gone Fishing Day Some spend a lifetime pursuing happiness. But whether you're out on the water any chance you get, or haven't been out in ages, you already know that one of the secrets to happiness is the simplest secret of all - fishing....
Pesticide Detectives
Ever wondered what pesticides lurk in your fishing hole? Here’s the opportunity to find out. Nominate Your WaterwayOzFish Unlimited has partnered with RMIT on their Pesticides Detectives program, we are giving OzFish Members and Chapters across Australia the...
2019 Barra’Prentice Diary
The 2019 Barra’Prentice year has come to a close, but it will never be forgotten. Never before has there been a Barra’Prentice like Nadia “Nadz” Taylor! Nadz has overcome more obstacles than any ’Prentice before her and shared her entire journey with anyone who was...
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 uplifting...
It’s the nature of our sport.
A little marvel: this gorgeous bass came to visit during prefish for a kayak tournament on Lake Macdonald in Queensland. Why am I smiling so broadly? Because right here, in this moment, everything is wonderful: My surroundings, my relationship, that fish, this river,...
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- A Dry Argument March 2, 2019Below is my editorial from the February 2019 “Fishotopian” newsletter. To subscribe to these free monthly newsletters from Fishotopia.com, please click here. Unless you’ve been overseas or off grid for the past few months, you’ll have seen coverage of catastrophic fish kills in outback NSW, especially along the Darling River near Menindee. The scale of […]
- TAGGED FLATHEAD RECAPTURED January 30, 2019On 15 January, 2019, I received some very exciting news from NSW DPI Fisheries. It seems that a large dusky flathead I tagged and fin-clipped for DNA analysis on 16th October, 2018 had recently been recaptured and re-released. The fish measured 84.5 cm when I caught it in mid-October, in the lower reaches of Tuross […]
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