🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️

Nick Hoyle
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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.

  1. Sep 7

    Solo on a Jetski, 100kg Bluefin, One Shark Trying to Steal It

    This 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 fishing lakes and rivers in France with his grandparents before landing in New Zealand ten years ago and falling hard for saltwater. He's since gone from an old Cresta Craft in Wellington Harbour, to a kayak that nearly got the better of him twice, to building his fishing life almost entirely around a jetski — chasing snapper, kingfish and now game fish solo off the West Coast. In this episode Matt breaks down his jetski jigging setup — line, leader, hook choice and the drift-speed-and-vertical-angle fundamentals that separate a good session from a skunked one — and explains why he hasn't taken bait fishing since switching to jigs. He also gets into the real safety lessons from years of solo missions: tethering to the ski, carrying three forms of communication, and never, ever going it alone on a game fishing run. The centrepiece of the chat is Matt's first bluefin tuna — a 90-minute solo fight in building swell off the Bay of Plenty that turned into a genuine tug-of-war with a 2.5m shark trying to tear the fish off his gaff mid-fight. It's one of the wilder landings featured on the show, and Matt is refreshingly honest about the mistakes he made along the way and what he'd do differently next time. Solo jetski missions, shark encounters, and a 100kg-plus tuna landed the hard way — full episode is on the Get The Net podcast. Watch on YouTube, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (00:00) Intro (10:00) Why the jetski (20:00) Jigging fundamentals (30:00) First topwater kingfish (40:00) Heading into the tuna trip (50:00) The tuna fight escalates (1:00:00) Landing it, and the shark fight (1:10:00) Wrap-up 🌟 Links & Socials - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/🎣-get-the-net-–-tight-lines-loose-lips🎙️/id1824558692 ✅ Follow Us - Instagram: @getthenet_nz - TikTok: @getthenet_nz - Facebook: @getthenet_nz 🎵 Music Used ✅ Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena ✅ Satellites, Swello ✅ Momentum, Zplit ✅ Source (YouTube Audio Library) 🎥 Production Notes ✅ Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics ✅ Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro ✅ Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    Solo on a Jetski, 100kg Bluefin, One Shark Trying to Steal It

  2. Aug 24

    7-Hour Swordfish Battle, One NZ Women's Record — Helen Horrocks

    Helen 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 into fishing — from scavenging tangled line off riverbanks as a kid, to kayak guiding in Paihia, to buying her own yacht so she could learn to skipper on her own terms. That same yacht became the platform for her game fishing obsession, sparked by a triple marlin strike that hooked her for good. Helen now holds a ratified New Zealand women's record for broadbill swordfish — a 279.3kg fish landed during the Cater Marine Opua Small Boats Tournament off the Hokianga coast, after a brutal seven-hour stand-up fight that left her legs permanently scarred from the gimbal. She talks candidly about the fight itself, the physical and mental toll of chasing records on light tackle, and a separate, far scarier night targeting a ten-kilo bluefin record that nearly ended in disaster on the run home in the dark. Along the way she shares the gear, mentors and trial-and-error lessons that shaped her as an angler and skipper. She also talks about "She's Got Game," the coaching business she runs alongside her marketing day job, built to give women hands-on, practical experience skippering and fishing rather than just theory. It's a conversation about obsession, complacency, teamwork, and why she thinks the best way for women to break into boating is simple: stop waiting for an invite and buy the boat yourself. CHAPTERS 0:00 Meet Helen Horrocks — sailor, fisherman, boating coach, and founder of She's Got Game 9:22 The Watershed Moment — a triple marlin strike, learning from Bruce Martin, and eyeing the bluefin record 20:23 The Bluefin Scare — hooked, lost, and a dangerous ride home in the dark 29:12 The 7-Hour Swordfish Fight — hooked up, the physical toll, and wrestling the fish aboard 39:19 Gear & Advice — rods, reels, swordfish behaviour, and tips for women getting into fishing 48:55 Bluefin, TV & a Business Award — her first bluefin on camera and recognition for She's Got Game 58:38 Wrap Up — thanks and final words FOLLOW HELEN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/88fishes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@88fishes SHE'S GOT GAME Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shesgotgamenz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shesgotgame TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shesgotgamenz Website: https://shesgotgame.co.nz/ LINKS & SOCIALS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1824558692 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/54DYLnjQkQLjdDz8USJgab Music: Proctor (Topher Mohr & Alex Elena) | Satellites (Swello) | Momentum (Zplit) | Source — YouTube Audio Library Shot on Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics | Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro | Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    7-Hour Swordfish Battle, One NZ Women's Record — Helen Horrocks

  3. Aug 10

    The 30-Pound Snapper He Waited 10 Years to Catch — Andre Kassal

    Andre 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 fishing show on TV. Fifteen years later he's personally landed three snapper over 85cm — five between him and his wife Kie — from a 4.5-metre boat Kie talked him into buying, all fished in water so shallow he can see the bottom. This episode covers his shift from German freshwater lure fishing (Zander, pike, perch) to New Zealand's shallow-water snapper game, why he never fishes deeper than 20 metres even when the fish are there, and the real ecological reason big snapper matter more than most people realise — snapper and crayfish are both key predators of kina, and losing enough of either lets kina strip the kelp bare. The centrepiece is the story of his personal-best 30-pound (13.9kg) snapper, caught on the exact day marking ten years since he arrived in New Zealand — and what happened when he spotted the same fish again, two years later, in a stranger's photo on Facebook. Kie gets her due too — her own 85cm personal best, landed solo in risky conditions, held the boat record for years. ✅ Andre Kassal @Drefish ✅ Ocean Angler ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 – Meet Andre Kassal 10:00 – From Germany to New Zealand's Shallows 20:00 – The 30-Pound Anniversary Snapper 30:00 – Overfishing, Kina Barrens, and Why Big Snapper Matter 40:00 – Gear, Ocean Angler, and the Softbait System 50:00 – Reading Conditions: Tides, Moon, and Overcast Days 1:00:00 – The Hidden Kingfish of Auckland Harbour 1:10:00 – Kie's Record-Breaking 85cm Snapper 1:20:00 – Mentors, Advice for Young Anglers 🌟 Links & Socials YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz Instagram: @getthenet_nz | TikTok: @getthenet_nz | Facebook: @getthenet_nz 🎵 Music: Proctor (Topher Mohr & Alex Elena), Satellites (Swello), Momentum (Zplit) 🎥 Shot on Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, shot/edited/produced by Nick Hoyle

    The 30-Pound Snapper He Waited 10 Years to Catch — Andre Kassal

  4. Jul 27

    $497,000 on the Other Side of Three-Meter Seas Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch

    Part 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 screen. The conversation turns to the pre-fishing mission that set up the biggest result of their careers: bait stacked at Whale Rock, a fish spotted off Cuvier, and a weather window that most boats decided to sit out. The conditions were brutal — three-and-a-half metre seas, wet weather gear purchased the morning of, and Cor (Jason's dad) calling it off the moment he saw what they were heading into. Mark and Jason went anyway. What happened next is the kind of story that gets told at prize-givings for years. A 384 kilo black marlin. Three hours on the rod. A trailer boat, two blokes, and a fish that took everything they had. The chaos around the weigh-in is worth the price of admission alone — Scott from Rayglass tying off the bill, Cor somewhere between 8 and 16 beers deep, and Mark parking the boat and walking off it because he was completely done. Second place overall, the heaviest billfish in the competition, and $497,000 split three ways. 🎧 Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net 📱 @getthenet_nz on Instagram, TikTok & Facebook 🎵 Music: Proctor (Topher Mohr & Alex Elena) | Satellites (Swello) | Momentum (Zplit) | Source — YouTube Audio Library 🎥 Shot on Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics | Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro | Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    $497,000 on the Other Side of Three-Meter Seas Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch

  5. Jul 20

    $70K, Three Swords, and a Chip on Their Shoulder Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch

    Mark 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 builder and tiler from Auckland, found his way back to fishing through camping trips, trailer boat comps, and a burning desire to be the guy walking away with the reels. A bromance forged on a building site and sealed somewhere out past Cuvier. Part 1 is a front-to-back masterclass in what it takes to compete at the Kubota level — from the early trailer boat days chasing snapper prizes, to the first Kubota entry in 2021 where a tagged stripy and a stranger calling them "little bitches" at prize-giving lit a fire that's been burning ever since. The stories you won't forget: Mark's first blue marlin on a broken rod at 500 metres. Jason's first blue, lost after an hour with no gimbal. Kylie's five-and-a-half-hour sword battle. Thirteen winds from a monster they never got. Part 1 ends with three swords tagged, $70,000 in the pocket, and a chip on their shoulder the size of a black marlin. 🎧 Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net 📱 @getthenet_nz on Instagram, TikTok & Facebook 🎵 Music: Proctor (Topher Mohr & Alex Elena) | Satellites (Swello) | Momentum (Zplit) | Source — YouTube Audio Library 🎥 Shot on Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics | Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro | Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    $70K, Three Swords, and a Chip on Their Shoulder Mark Phillips + Jason van Esch

  6. Jul 6

    Why You're NOT Finding the Bluefin!! Ocean Intelligence Secrets | Matt Shuker

    Matt 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 directing triple marlin strikes from a garden centre car parkMarine Intel delivers custom daily ocean reports to game fishermen across the country, decoding satellite data, sea surface temperatures, subsurface thermoclines, and chlorophyll blooms into plain English: here's where the fish should be, here's why. Eighteen months in, it's his full-time life — and it all started because a trip to Westport didn't go the way it was supposed to. In this episode Nick and Matt go deep on the science of finding fish. What does a game fisherman actually need to look at on a chart? Why do bluefin behave like long-haul truckers — pulling off at the same productive stops year after year? How does the green-to-blue edge rule work, and when does the biggest fish of the year completely ignore it? Matt breaks down both winter and summer oceanography, the South Island bluefin migration window, and why checking the wind map isn't enough — you need to know what the water was doing before the window opened. There's a full breakdown of the tools and software he uses, plus the story of directing a client onto a triple Marlin strike from a garden centre, just by pulling up charts on his phone. There's also a safety conversation that every NZ game fisherman needs to hear. Matt was 18 miles away when a father and son's trailer boat was caught in a factory trawler's rope off Greymouth — in the middle of the night, in cold South Island water, with no coastguard and no helicopter within range. Their Mayday call was two words. The boat sank. They survived — rescued by Valhalla, who were cooking a roast when the call came in. This episode is bluefin season listening. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net Matt Shucker @marinaintel_nzMarine Intel marinaintel.co.nz GET THE NETYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nzInstagram: @getthenet_nzTikTok: @getthenet_nzFacebook: @getthenet_nz MUSICProctor — Topher Mohr and Alex ElenaSatellites — SwelloMomentum — ZplitSource: YouTube Audio Library Shot, Edited and Produced by Nick Hoyle

    Why You're NOT Finding the Bluefin!! Ocean Intelligence Secrets | Matt Shuker

  7. Jun 22

    He broke his back for a fish | 4x NZ Surfcasting Champion | Chad Prentice

    Chad 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 country and figuring out how to fish them. From skipping school in Wairoa to hitch a ride to the beach with cat's meat for bait, to swimming rivers in the dark at 3am with a full pack to win national titles, Chad's approach to land-based fishing is as hard out as it gets. In this episode, Nick and Chad break down the full art of reading a surf beach — water colour, wave period, sand ridges, tide, moon phase, and why where you plant your rod stand is the single most important decision you'll make. Chad also gets into slide baiting for kingfish in the surf, why going as light as possible creates the most opportunities, and how the same principles that apply to boat fishing apply just as much when your feet are planted on the sand. The stories are something else. Two national title campaigns that involved 3am river crossings, pterodactyl-sized mozzies on 90 Mile Beach, and carrying a full load of competition fish out on foot across some of the most rugged coastline in New Zealand. Then there's the time at Cape Maria van Diemen where a collapsing volcanic rock sent Chad fifteen metres onto his back, broke his neck and spine in three places, and put a knife through his bag into his back — and he still looked at the conditions and thought they were good. A roosterfish in Puerto Rico is still on the bucket list. Everything else, he's pretty much done. 🎧 Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net ✅ Chad Prentice: https://www.facebook.com/hardcoreoutdoorsnz ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Meet Chad 15:00 Winning the Nationals 30:00 Reading a Surf Beach 45:00 The Fall at Cape Maria 1:00:00 Slide Baiting & Kingfish in the Surf 1:15:00 Gear, Line Diameter & Going Light 🔗 Links & Socials: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1824558692 ✅ Follow Us: Instagram: @getthenet_nz | TikTok: @getthenet_nz | Facebook: @getthenet_nz 🎵 Music: Proctor - Topher Mohr & Alex Elena | Satellites - Swello | Momentum - Zplit | Source: YouTube Audio Library

    He broke his back for a fish | 4x NZ Surfcasting Champion | Chad Prentice

  8. Jun 8

    The Man Who Always Finds the Fish — Roy Pulvers

    Roy 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 first operators in New Zealand to run lure-only charters. Originally from overseas and self-taught through sheer time on the water, Roy has built a reputation for simply finding fish. If you see his boat heading somewhere with purpose, you follow it. In this episode, Nick and Roy cover the full picture of what it takes to fish the Gulf at the highest level — reading workups, understanding bird behaviour, using technology such as BirdRadar to cut search time and maximise action, and why slowing down sometimes means finding more. Roy breaks down his approach to lure selection, kingfish behaviour, why barometric pressure matters more than most people realise, and the art of teaching complete beginners to catch fish on lures from day one. There are some brilliant stories along the way — a striped marlin fixated on a snapper caught inside the Gulf while jigging with 400mm jigs, wrapping itself around its bill and fins three times in a row; a 2nd kingfish of a lifetime, finally caught after years of chasing it in the same place; and a yellowfin session with clients between Rakino and the Noises that produced 21 fish in a single day. Roy also discusses the state of the Gulf, why he thinks there's more of everything out there right now, and why pelagics pushing inside the harbour is something he hasn't seen in 23 years until recently. His worst day on the water? Any day he's stuck on land. Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net Roy Pulvers @Triton_Charters (IG)Roy Pulvers @Fishndipscharters (IG)https://www.facebook.com/FishnDipsChartershttps://www.facebook.com/TritonChartersNZwww.youtube.com/@fishndipschartersltd3358 Chapters:00:00 Meet Roy00:15 The State of the Hauraki Gulf00:30 Finding the Fish00:45 Kingfish — The Smart Fish01:00 Marlin in the Gulf & The 40kg King01:15 Gear, Lures & Teaching Beginners Links & Socials:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nzApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-the-net/id1824558692Instagram: @getthenet_nzTikTok: @getthenet_nzFacebook: @getthenet_nz Music Used:Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex ElenaSatellites, SwelloMomentum, ZplitSource (YouTube Audio Library) Production Notes:Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser MicsEdited in: Adobe Premiere ProShot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    The Man Who Always Finds the Fish — Roy Pulvers
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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.

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