Gone Fishin': Nino Culotta

Third book of Nino's adventures in Australia.  Having been working too hard at the building trade, his doctor advises him, 'Knock off for a while. Relax. Go fishing.'  Now, since becoming an Australian, Nino had often been called a 'mullet' and sometimes even a 'prawn-headed mullet'  but he knew nothing about fishing - until he got a license and began learning about it from Shorty Bent. This was professional fishing - nets, waders, oilskins, shooting a 'double-header' at dawn, picking up and unmeshing and icing down the catch on the foreshore while sharing a 'crack o' the whip' (rum) with other fisherman.  It may not have been exactly what the doctor ordered but it suited Nino. He made some new friends as well - Old George the oyster farmer, Shorty's brother Tich - mad as a meat-axe - and Shorty's Old Man, a law unto himself with a hacksaw voice.  Nino's builder mates Joe and Dennis also drop in the fishing trade. Even with regulations and  fisheries inspectors, it's a great life!  Illustrated by the irrepressible 'Wep'.