🎣 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. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    The Couple Who Built a Life Around Fishing | Frank & Jane (Beyond the Coast)

    Frank 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 lot of us would love to have. Frank grew up on the Coromandel and started fishing at about five years old alongside his mum Julie, a well-known rock-fishing legend in the area. His stepdad, still a great fisherman today, was big into straylining, so Frank spent his childhood baiting and burleying off the rocks and out on the boat. A move to Australia and city life took him away from fishing for a while. Jane grew up on Sydney's Northern Beaches with a beach and surfing background rather than a fishing one. When the pair moved back to New Zealand about seven years ago and settled on the coast, Frank got straight back into it, and he picked up the soft-bait rods too. The content side started almost by accident. They'd planned to launch a channel together, but Covid hit. Jane is a nurse by trade and was working as an essential worker, while Frank, a self-employed builder and joiner, couldn't work. So Frank started his own channel solo, editing full-length videos on his phone. Once Jane could ease off work a few years later, they finally launched Beyond the Coast together. Neither of them comes from a tech, filming or editing background. Everything they know, they learned on YouTube. Recorded live at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo as part of the Daiwa Quick Casts, this one covers: • Frank's land-based method for big snapper: Google Maps scouting, swirly dirty days, homemade burley minced in a garden shredder, and big fresh baits •Their rock gear: Daiwa Freeswimmers, 40lb braid, a single 6/0 hook and no weight •Upgrading from a 4.95 to a 5.1m boat, and how it's changed their shallow-water snapper fishing in 3m of water •A tribute to Frank's late mum Julie, whose 18lb snapper landed her on the front cover of a fishing mag •Jane's honest advice for anyone wanting to start a fishing YouTube channel •The Samoa trip where their gear never made it onto the plane, and Frank's solo return mission chasing GTs Thanks to Daiwa NZ for making the Quick Casts happen.

    The Couple Who Built a Life Around Fishing | Frank & Jane (Beyond the Coast)

  2. 6d ago

    You Never Catch Anything on the Couch Matt Jurlina Lands a 250kg Bluefin with a UFC Heavyweight on the Rod

    A 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 plumber, a Muriwai beach launcher and one of the Chums boys — a crew of mates who grew up rural and never stopped chasing fish together. He's also the bloke who'll tell you about the trips that went wrong: the $15,000 weekend, the four-hour swordfish lost at the leader, and ten big broadbill missions this season for zero fish. Then one dead-looking day off Cape Brett, with Brando "The Balkan Bear" Peričić on the rod, one live blue koheru changed everything. Matt walks us through the bite, three leader shots, the call to take the fish, and how it ended up feeding more than 100 people. We also get into his first marlin (no gaff, no gloves, no electronics, 128kg), why live baiting works from snapper to 250kg tuna, and the one word he wants you to take away: confidence. Tight Lines, Loose Lips. ⏱️ Chapters / Segments (00:00) Meet Matt & The Chums (10:00) First Boat to Great Barrier (20:00) First Marlin, No Gear (30:00) Staying in the Game (40:00) The 250kg Bluefin (50:00) Getting It Home & Confidence 🎧 Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net ✅ Matt Jurlina @jurlina_livingwild (IG) ✅ chums.nz (IG) ✅ balknbear (IG) ✅  @chums.online  (YT) 🔗 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

    You Never Catch Anything on the Couch Matt Jurlina Lands a 250kg Bluefin with a UFC Heavyweight on the Rod

  3. Oct 1 ·  Bonus

    Cool People Doing Cool Shit — Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

    Scott 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 in New Zealand for 16 years. His philosophy from day one: get cool people doing cool things. In this Quick Cast Scott covers growing up rowing out to Browns Bay reef with his dad, why shallow-water soft baiting on the Stabi at the Barrier is his happy place, a blue marlin near 300kg caught for an 80-plus year-old grandfather, and the day a 50-plus kilo kingfish came over the rail at White Island and went straight back. We also pick his brain on deep dropping — finding uncharted rocks, live jack mackerel for bait, drift set-up, electric reel choice — and how 60–70% of Daiwa's NZ rod range is built specifically for Kiwi anglers. Quick Casts are short, sharp sit-downs recorded live at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo in partnership with Daiwa NZ. Full-length Get The Net episodes are on the channel, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 👤 GuestScott Malcon — Brand Manager, Daiwa New Zealand (Brittain Wynyard) - Daiwa NZ: https://www.daiwa.co.nz/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daiwa_nz/🌟 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 (0:00) Cool people doing cool things(5:00) Fish of a lifetime — soft bait tip, 300kg blue marlin, 50kg kingfish released(10:00) Deep dropping 101 — uncharted rocks, live bait, setting the drift(15:00) Electric reels, circle hooks and the Daiwa story(20:00) Built for New Zealand — Kiwi-spec rods and Scott's dream fish #GetTheNet #NZFishing #DaiwaNZ🎵 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 HoyleRecorded live at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo in partnership with Daiwa NZ.

    Cool People Doing Cool Shit — Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

  4. Sep 21

    Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour From Auckland — Jonathan Watts

    Jonathan 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 water down. He grew up 130 kilometres from the sea in the English Midlands, float fishing canals on a pushbike, then spent four years surfcasting the Welsh coast before landing in New Zealand in 2001 and having to relearn everything. That freshwater stealth-and-presentation background is exactly why he now fishes the Gulf the way he does, and it's why the biggest snapper in one year's Lure Masters came off his boat. With Lure Masters a week away, the soft bait snapper content is where this one earns its keep. Jonathan breaks down how he fishes shallow water for big fish: drifting into the spot rather than driving over it, setting up long drifts along weed lines, cycling motor oil, bruised banana and bright orange across the crew until a colour proves itself, 15lb braid to a 25–30lb fluoro trace, and the line that'll start arguments — in shallow water the big fish are always on the end of the longest cast, never under the boat. He also breaks down finding winter workups out towards Great Barrier: 7x50 binoculars, whale spouts on the horizon, terns before the workups form, and what it means when a gannet is flying dead straight at 27 knots. Then the kingfish method — Jonathan's full live-bait routine from a charter skipper's seat. Catching bait before the sun's up on the southern side of Kawau, depth-coloured braid so every angler knows exactly where their bait is, sinker above the swivel so a busted-off fish isn't towing lead, reading the bait ball on the sounder (grainy and spread means no kings; darkening red and walling off means something's on it), shearwaters as a dead giveaway over the reefs, why spot lock changed everything, the "at least three seconds" rule on circle hooks that almost nobody manages, and the proper spike-bleed-slurry routine if you're taking a king home. As a bonus, the story of the biggest snapper of one year's Lure Masters — landed off his boat in 15–20 metres at Little Barrier on a fusilier-coloured soft bait after a morning hiding from the weather behind Kawau. Season-opener stuff for anyone fishing the Gulf this spring. Full episode is on the Get The Net podcast — watch on YouTube, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Guest : Jonathan Watts — Northside Adventures Fishing Charters, Hauraki Gulf (since 2018). Kingfish and snapper charters departing Sandspit (Omaha launch available May–October); full day, half day, or individual seats on shared trips. Website: https://northsideadventures.co.nz/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northsideadventures/Instagram: @northside_adventures — https://www.instagram.com/northside_adventures/Phone: 027 389 7000Email: info@northsideadventures.co.nzTimestamps (00:00) — Meet Jonathan. (10:00) — 130km from the sea to the Gulf. (20:00) — Reading the reef. (30:00) — Fish care and the Lure Masters fish. (40:00) — Comp tactics and finding workups. (50:00) — Rapid fire.🎣 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_nzTikTok: @getthenet_nzFacebook @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

    Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour From Auckland — Jonathan Watts

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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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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