Steve Starling - Fishing for Dummies

Fishing For Dummies, 2nd Australian & New Zealand Edition

by Steve Starling

Fishing For Dummies

2nd Australian & New Zealand Edition published by
Wiley Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Author: Starling, Stephen

Title: Fishing For Dummies/Steve Starling

Edition: 2nd Australian & New Zealand ed.

ISBN: 978 1 74216 984 2 (pbk.)

Series: For dummies

Notes: Includes index. Previous ed.: 2002.

Dewey Number: 799.1

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About the Author

Steve Starling is one of Australias best known and most respected fishing writers and television/DVD presenters. At the age of seven, he pulled his first fish from the Lachlan River in central western New South Wales, and Steve claims he was just as firmly hooked as that little redfin perch. Thus began a passionate commitment to recreational angling that has only strengthened over the intervening decades.

A teenage Steve had his first magazine article on fishing published in his final year of high school and five years later went on to become editor of the title that had accepted his story. Four years later, he turned freelance and has since written 20 books, thousands of magazine features and numerous video and television scripts. His work has been published in a dozen countries and several languages, and Steve has travelled and fished across the globe, catching several world record fish in the process.

Through the 1990s, Steve became known to a much wider audience at home and abroad as a regular co-presenter on the long-running Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures television series. As well, he has performed stints in front of the camera as a presenter on The Great Outdoors , The Australian Fishing Show and AFC Outdoors . Steve and his close angling mate, Kaj Bushy Busch, also completed three series of an outdoor adventure, fishing and cooking television series called Hooked On Adventure , which was set initially in Western Australia, before moving east to the rest of the nation. Today, Steve is a major contributor to the quarterly magazine-on-DVD known simply as The Fishing DVD .

Steve Starling better known to many of his fans these days simply as Starlo is a graduate of the University of NSW, where he majored in Modern History and English Literature, briefly teaching these subjects at high school before embarking on his full-time fishing career. He has two grown up children, Tom and Amy, and now resides in Darwin with his partner, Jo, and her daughter, Charlotte, with plans to eventually return to his beloved far south coast of New South Wales.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my fishing partner, business mentor and soul mate, Jo, who never ceases to inspire me, and whose intuitive, left-field/right brain take on angling has taught me to not only give better answers, but also to ask more meaningful questions!

Authors Acknowledgements

I need to thank plenty of people for their help with this book, and Im sure to miss a few. First and foremost Id like to acknowledge all those fellow anglers Ive met over the years whove so willingly shared their knowledge and enthusiasm with me. Whatever I know about fishing today is the sum of their wisdom, not mine.

Id also like to give a big thanks to Wayne Wells, who created the clear, concise illustrations you see on these pages. Having a friend and a fellow fisher as my illustrator made life so much easier.

Writing the original version and now this updated Australasian edition of Fishing For Dummies has been an interesting exercise. Ive penned lots of how-to material in the past, but before my Dummies experience, I had never been called upon to write in a manner thats so accessible and transparent, even to people with zero knowledge of the subject matter. This feat is harder than it looks, and I owe a considerable debt of gratitude to the editors of the original version, Carolyn Beaumont and Karen Earnshaw, and to the always affable and good-humoured Robi van Nooten, my editor on this new version. All three pulled me into line every time I strayed towards jargon and insider-speak, and they constantly posed the simple, incisive questions a newcomer to the sport might be expected to ask. Carolyn, Karen and Robi have made this a much better and more useful book than it would otherwise have been.

Finally, my sincere thanks to Bronwyn Duhigg, the Acquisitions Editor who first suggested and then made possible this timely update of the original book, and its expansion to include our friends across the Tasman in New Zealand. Bronwyn was always a joy to deal with and never got cross with me, even when I bunked off to go fishing instead of finishing my allotted chapters on time! Thank you.

Publishers Acknowledgements

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