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Getting your head around gear ratios

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published November 2021) Retrieve speeds can be really important in many styles of lure fishing, and those speeds are dictated by several factors, including your reel’s gear ratio.       […]

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Match the catch!

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published October 2021) We all know about ‘matching the hatch’, but what about ‘matching the catch’? Believe it or not, choosing a lure that imitates the fish you’re chasing […]

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Searching for spring gold

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling From Victoria to Queensland, spring marks the peak time to target XOS yellowbelly or golden perch in our dams.       Golden perch or yellowbelly are our second largest inland native […]

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Leaders: the vital link

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling Since the advent of braided lines, leader selection and construction has become an increasingly important consideration for anglers.       In the pull-out Tackle Extra of this issue of Fishing Monthly, […]

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Why try the fly?

• Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling Chasing fish on fur and feathers certainly isn’t for everyone, but you might be surprised at just how enjoyable – and addictive – it can become, not to mention how effective… […]

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Playing in the mud

• Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling “It never rains, it pours!” Following drought and catastrophic bushfires a little over a year ago, many of us had been fervently hoping for much wetter times in 2021… But sometimes […]

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Our feathered eyes in the sky

by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling • Most of us know that birds can be a great indicator of the presence of fish, but you might not have realised just how complex and subtle these feather-to-scale connections […]

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Cheating the tax man

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling None of us particularly enjoy paying taxes, but when those levies take the form of a prize catch stolen from our lines by a hungry predator, the pain is real! […]