🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️
by Nick Hoyle
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About this podcast
Welcome to Get the Net, the Kiwi fishing podcast where the yarns are as wild as the waters we fish!
Hosted by Nick, a self-confessed multiple-time member of the Caught Bugger All Fishing Club*, this show dives into epic stories, top tactics, and must-have gear from NZ’s best anglers.
From offshore Marlin to soft baits in the shallows, we’re all about real fishing talk—no gatekeeping, just good banter, expert tips, and the odd fishing fail.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 44 episodes
- He Lost His Gaff to a Yellowfin… Then It Came Back | William Lomas | GTN Quick Cast · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 5William Lomas is back. Willy is the first guest ever to come on Get The Net twice. We recorded this Daiwa Quick Cast live at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo. Willy grew up fishing…
- 56 Years Underwater What NZ's Oceans Need This Election Darren Shields, 6x NZ Spearfishing Champ · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 36Darren Shields has had his head underwater for 56 years. He's a 6x New Zealand spearfishing champion and a former president of Spearfishing New Zealand, has represented NZ around…
- The Boat Left Without Him: 600m Offshore in Great White Territory | Hooked On Adventures · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 5Rowan was diving behind an island in Foveaux Strait when he looked up and swore the boat had moved. His mate told him it was all in his head. A couple of crays later, there was…
- The 100kg Bluefin Club: 26 Years of Fishing with Justin Corric | Daiwa Quick Casts · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 4In Japan, jig anglers have an unofficial benchmark. It isn’t a club with a membership card. It’s a bluefin tuna over 100 kilos, caught on the jig. You can’t plan for one or buy…
- He Wasn’t Even Trying — The Accidental World Record Kingfish, Rick Pollock · 1 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 36Captain Rick Pollock grew up in Hollywood, the son of a doctor whose patients included movie stars, and had boated 100 billfish out of Baja Mexico by the time he was 18. He…
- Fishing for Your Mental Health: $120K Raised for Gumboot Friday – Aaron Styles · 25 min · Episode 3Recorded on the Daiwa stand at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo. This Quick Cast is with Aaron Styles, founder of Just Another Fisherman. Aaron grew up a Bay of Plenty fisherman…
- The Couple Who Built a Life Around Fishing | Frank & Jane (Beyond the Coast) · 27 minFrank and Jane are the couple behind Beyond the Coast, a YouTube channel built around fishing, camping and exploring their own backyard. They've turned that into a lifestyle a…
- You Never Catch Anything on the Couch Matt Jurlina Lands a 250kg Bluefin with a UFC Heavyweight on the Rod · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 35A 5.8 metre trailer boat. A UFC heavyweight strapped into the harness. And a Pacific bluefin tuna that pulled the scales to 243kg bled, gutted and gilled. Matt Jurlina is a…
- Cool People Doing Cool Shit — Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ · 24 minScott Malcon has been in the NZ fishing industry his whole working life — Rebel Sport, Fish City, then Brittain Wynyard, where he went from sales rep to running the Daiwa brand…
- Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour From Auckland — Jonathan Watts · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 34Jonathan Watts runs Northside Adventures, a Hauraki Gulf charter operation he started in late 2018 — barely a season and a half of trading before the March 2020 lockdown shut the…
- Solo on a Jetski, 100kg Bluefin, One Shark Trying to Steal It · 1 h 21 minThis episode contains footage shot by Matt Ringot (@FrenchAdrift) and remains his own content — best viewed in video mode. Matt Ringot — known online as French Adrift — grew up…
- 7-Hour Swordfish Battle, One NZ Women's Record — Helen Horrocks · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 32Helen Horrocks is a Scottish-born sailor turned game fisherman turned boating coach, now based in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. In this episode she traces her unlikely path…
- The 30-Pound Snapper He Waited 10 Years to Catch — Andre Kassal · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 31Andre Kassal — @Drefish, Ocean Angler pro staff — moved to New Zealand from Germany in 2011 chasing trout, and stumbled into saltwater fishing almost by accident after watching a…
- $497,000 on the Other Side of Three-Meter Seas Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 30Part 2 picks up where the action is — sounder marks, Rays Bream bars, throwaway waypoints, and the discipline to ditch a predetermined plan the moment something better appears on…
- $70K, Three Swords, and a Chip on Their Shoulder Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 30Mark Phillips grew up in Whitianga casting hand lines with Mum and Dad before discovering soft baiting and slowly working his way into competition fishing. Jason van Esch, a…
- Why You're NOT Finding the Bluefin!! Ocean Intelligence Secrets | Matt Shuker · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 29Matt Shuker built a business tracking the ocean so Marine Intel members never fish blind. Marine Intel started with a marlin trip to Westport and a mates group chat. Now he’s…
- He broke his back for a fish | 4x NZ Surfcasting Champion | Chad Prentice · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 28Chad Prentice is a four-time New Zealand Surfcasting Champion and Shimano representative who has spent his life finding the most inaccessible stretches of coastline in the…
- The Man Who Always Finds the Fish — Roy Pulvers · 59 minRoy Pulvers is one of Auckland's most recognised charter skippers — more than a decade on the Hauraki Gulf, running Fish 'N Dips Charters and now Triton Charters, and one of the…
- The Trophy Snapper Equation | Stray lining Secrets Revealed | Connor Scott · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 26Connor Scott is a career skipper out of West Haven,Auckland, and when it comes to stray lining for trophy snapper, he's built a system that's as dialled as it gets. Growing up…
- Cast Until It Hurts - Trophy Kings Off the Rocks | Gene Bryant, Strictly Landbased · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 25Gene Bryant is New Zealand's only land-based fishing charter skipper — a Whitianga local who grew up watching his dad pioneer the land-based scene in the early '90s, and never…
