Adam Kerezsy is a freshwater fish scientist who, for years, lived next to Lake Cargelligo right in the middle of the Murray–Darling Basin. There he saw first-hand the many problems that affect this mighty river system, and that got him thinking. In Desert Fishing Lessons, Kerezsy takes us on a rollicking journey through our arid-zone waterways and we discover that we have much to learn from our healthy desert rivers and the 'tough-as-nails critters' that live in them.