๐ŸŽฃ Get the Net โ€“ Tight Lines, Loose Lips! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

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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 NZโ€™s best anglers. From offshore Marlin to soft baits in the shallows, weโ€™re all about real fishing talkโ€”no gatekeeping, just good banter, expert tips, and the odd fishing fail.

  1. 3d agoโ€„ยทโ€„ Bonus

    The Boat Left Without Him: 600m Offshore in Great White Territory | Hooked On Adventures

    Rowan 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 no doubt: the anchor had lifted off a mound, and the boat was drifting away faster than he could swim. He swam flat out, towing a float, and got within armโ€™s reach but still couldnโ€™t grab it. When he finally turned around, he was 600m offshore in great white territory. He tells us what happened next, what caused it and what heโ€™d do differently. Rowan runs Hooked On Adventures out of Invercargill, but he grew up in the Marlborough Sounds. His grandfather taught him to fish using old-school landmarks, and he caught a boat to school (with the odd line dropped on the way home). Since then heโ€™s gone from a repowered 1997 Stabicraft to running 120km down the Fiordland coast out of Milford, deep dropping pinnacles where โ€œitโ€™s literally a lucky dipโ€. We talk about the trick that cracked bluenose for him, why the big blue cod sit off the bottom, and the day 18 hours of nothing turned into a 30kg hฤpuku on the last drop. He explains why southern bluefin now stick around for nine months of the year and why South Island game fishing is fast becoming a year-round fishery. We also cover how Fiordlandโ€™s crays came back from the brink, and why using the whole fish matters more than ever. Recorded live at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo, thanks to the legends at Daiwa. Tight Lines, Loose Lips. 00:00 [Sounds Kid to Southlander] Grandadโ€™s old-school marks, school by boat, and diving the deep south.05:00 [Fiordlandโ€™s Lucky Dip] Resident bluefin, cracking bluenose, and a 30kg hฤpuku on the last drop.10:00 [The Boat Left Without Him] Big cod off the bottom, the rise of southern game fishing, and a 600m swim.15:00 [Back to Basics] Relearning straylining in the Sounds, Daiwa gear, and fishing with the kids.20:00 [Looking After the South] The drive into Milford, cray recovery, lower cod limits and sharks.25:00 [Caught Out & Quick-Fire] Punching home through Foveaux Strait, then his favourite fish and feed.

    The Boat Left Without Him: 600m Offshore in Great White Territory | Hooked On Adventures

  2. Oct 22โ€„ยทโ€„ Bonus

    The 100kg Bluefin Club: 26 Years of Fishing with Justin Corric | Daiwa Quick Casts

    In Japan, jig anglers have an unofficial benchmark. It isnโ€™t a club with a membership card. Itโ€™s a bluefin tuna over 100 kilos, caught on the jig. You canโ€™t plan for one or buy your way into it. You just keep dropping. Justin Corric had chased that fish for years. A little over four weeks ago, on the final morning of one of the toughest trips of his life, he finally got one. Justin is Daiwaโ€™s Upper North Island Territory Manager, with 26 years in the fishing industry behind him. He started out sweeping the floor of a tackle shop. When he told his dad he didnโ€™t want to sell cars, his dad told him to find something he loved and work out how to make money from it. His dad also flew to Japan every month for 20 years, and every trip home came with lures, soft baits and jigs nobody in New Zealand had seen yet. That started a lifelong obsession with lure fishing and Japanese technique. Itโ€™s put Justin onto plenty of big snapper and serious kingfish, including a 38kg king on the jig at Ranfurly Banks, and now a 100kg+ bluefin. In this Quick Cast, Justin tells the whole bluefin story. There were long nights on two hoursโ€™ sleep, a 100kg+ fish lost at the boat, a dead trolling motor and a last-night gamble when skipper Ben โ€œBrownieโ€ Brown of Built to Fish decided to punch out to where the fish actually were. Then, after an hour and 45 minutes of sleep, the alarm went off and there were bluefin everywhere. Justin dropped to 60 metres, felt that little bump, and the rest is history. He also explains why the humble slider jig is more than a century old and why braid changed everything. He covers the bent-knee, short-stroke technique Japanese anglers use to stop big fish without muscling them, and the one-second stall on the drop where he reckons most bluefin bites happen. Then there are the early days of jigging, when youโ€™d get a hit on almost every drop on the local reefs off Cuvier and Little Barrier. Justin also gives his advice for anyone chasing kingfish on topwater (pick your plan, stick to it and be ready to come home with nothing) and shares the bluefin sashimi tacos his missus makes, which he could eat all day. Tight Lines, Loose Lips. Guest @Justincorric Chapters:(00:00) [Japan in a Suitcase] Dadโ€™s monthly Japan trips, the first rod and reel, and 26 years in the industry. (05:00) [The 100kg Club] Long nights, a lost fish at the boat, and Brownieโ€™s last-night gamble. (11:50) [Older Than You Think] The slider is 120-year-old Japanese tech, and braid changed everything. (17:00) [Fight Like the Japanese] Bent knees, short strokes and keeping the pressure on. (18:30) [The Stall Is Everything] The tiny tap on the drop most bluefin anglers miss. (21:00) [Topwater, Patience & Tuna Tacos] The 38kg king, sticking to the plan, and Justinโ€™s favourite feed.

    The 100kg Bluefin Club: 26 Years of Fishing with Justin Corric | Daiwa Quick Casts

  3. Oct 19

    He Wasnโ€™t Even Trying โ€” The Accidental World Record Kingfish, Rick Pollock

    Captain 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 arrived in New Zealand in 1978 on what was meant to be a one-year contract skippering a charter boat out of Whakatane, fishing White Island โ€” and never left. Rick sits down with Nick to share stories from nearly 50 years on the water, including White Island โ€” his home away from home โ€” plus the day his boat tied the All Tackle world record kingfish, and a career built almost entirely around the country's most obsessed-over sportfish. The conversation is a genuine masterclass in kingfish: how to read a seasonal cycle that swings from "hibernating" fish sitting empty-stomached in 300m of winter water to explosive, angry stickbait strikes in the shallows come November. Rick breaks down the live-bait care most anglers get wrong (why handling bait with your hands kills it, and a Southern Hemisphere trick for orienting a bait tank to the Coriolis effect), the mechanics of a proper dummy drift, and exactly how to fight a fish from the first "freight train" strike through to the gaff โ€” including the five-minute rule that tells you whether you're going to land it. Nick and Rick trade stories from nearly fifty years at White Island, Ranfurly Bank and the Three Kings โ€” including the day a total accident, not a plan, saw his boat tie the All Tackle world record kingfish (52kg on 24kg line) while everyone was distracted by yellowfin tuna. Rick doesn't hold back on his running war with bronze whaler sharks, which he blames for gutting the kingfish fishery in many of his favourite spots, and relives the night a 70-plus-knot blow at North Cape put his charter boat on the rocks โ€” a story that ends with a rescue helicopter, a flooded fish hold, and a deckhand who refused to leave. Nearly five decades, a world record kingfish and enough close calls to fill a book โ€” this is one of the deepest dives yet into what it actually takes to become one of New Zealand's most respected charter skippers. Guest:Rick Pollock โ€” charter skipper, White Island / Bay of Plenty and Three Kings. Skippered the charter boat Pursuit when a 52kg kingfish on 24kg line at White Island tied the All Tackle world record. โฑ๏ธ Chapters / Segments (00:00) โ€” Meet Rick Pollock. A Hollywood upbringing, and the one-year NZ contract that became a lifetime. (08:00) โ€” Fishing Like Taking Candy From a Baby. Arriving at White Island in 1978, dog-chain traces, and turning charter clients onto giant kingfish and tuna. (24:00) โ€” The Live Bait Masters. Butter-knife bait handling, the Coriolis-effect tank trick, and why a full moon ruins a night's fishing. (36:00) โ€” Reading the Drift. The dummy drift, leading the school, and the seasonal shift from deepwater winter kings to explosive summer stickbait bites. (55:00) โ€” War on Bronze Whalers. Rick's case against the sharks he blames for gutting the kingfish fishery, plus five days chasing trophy kings at the Three Kings. (1:12:00) โ€” The Accidental Record and the Night at North Cape. How his boat tied the All Tackle world record kingfish by mistake, and the night 70-plus-knot winds put the boat on the rocks. ๐ŸŽง Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube โ€” Search Get The Net ๐Ÿ”— Links & Socials - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/๐ŸŽฃ-get-the-net----tight-lines-loose-lips๐ŸŽฃ/id1824558692 โœ… Follow Us - Instagram: @getthenet_nz - TikTok: @getthenet_nz - Facebook: @getthenet_nz ๐ŸŽต Music Used โœ… Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena โœ… Satellites, Swello โœ… Momentum, Zplit โœ… Upbeat Funk Happy by Infraction [Copyright Free Music] โœ… "Long Road" by Infraction, licensed via inaudio.org โœ… Source (YouTube Audio Library) ๐ŸŽฅ Production Notes โœ… Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics โœ… Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro โœ… Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    He Wasnโ€™t Even Trying โ€” The Accidental World Record Kingfish, Rick Pollock

  4. Oct 15โ€„ยทโ€„ Bonus

    Fishing for Your Mental Health: $120K Raised for Gumboot Friday โ€“ Aaron Styles

    Recorded 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, surfcasting through the night beside a fire with his dad. Fishing was always part of his life, but his career started in fashion, where he spent six years as head of design at Huffer. During that time he noticed a gap in the market. Fishing gear was either promo-style merch from the general brands or nothing at all. Nobody was making clothing that showed what the fishing lifestyle actually feels like: party shirts with fish prints, or proper technical shorts that werenโ€™t just a pair of stubbies. Thatโ€™s where Just Another Fisherman came from, 14 years ago. Since then itโ€™s slowly grown into new product groups, each one built to solve a problem on the water. Theyโ€™re now on their third generation of winter bibs, which get used for everything from tuna to soft baiting. The crewman shorts, with stretch, magnet closures and nothing to rust, have earned the nickname โ€œthe Toyota Hilux of shorts,โ€ and some blokes buy four pairs at a time. We also talk about Anglers Escape, the event Aaron started. Itโ€™s a fishing comp, but the fishing isnโ€™t really the point. You turn up up north with a crew of mates for three to four days, all catered, and thatโ€™s your time out, rain or shine. The prize-giving finishes with auctions and raffles, and every dollar goes to Gumboot Friday. Over the last four or five years theyโ€™ve raised around $120,000 for youth mental health. The message is simple: when you ring your mate to ask how the marlin fishingโ€™s going, ask how lifeโ€™s going too. The fishing is serious as well. Last year 26 snapper over 80cm were caught across 150 anglers and only one was kept. The teams prize came down to the last hour. We also cover his sonโ€™s first marlin, caught at age nine on a father-son overnight in the Bay of Islands, a released 42kg kingi on topwater, and an overnight off Raglan where two of them raised 11 marlin in an hour and a half. Aaron also shares what heโ€™s learned from the best marlin crews about patience and process, and how he still makes sure fishing stays his time out. Tight Lines, Loose Lips

    Fishing for Your Mental Health: $120K Raised for Gumboot Friday โ€“ Aaron Styles

  5. Oct 8โ€„ยทโ€„ 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: โ€ข 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 โ€ขTheir rock gear: Daiwa Freeswimmers, 40lb braid, a single 6/0 hook and no weight โ€ขUpgrading from a 4.95 to a 5.1m boat, and how it's changed their shallow-water snapper fishing in 3m of water โ€ขA tribute to Frank's late mum Julie, whose 18lb snapper landed her on the front cover of a fishing mag โ€ขJane's honest advice for anyone wanting to start a fishing YouTube channel โ€ขThe 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)

  6. Oct 5

    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 โ€” 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" Periฤiฤ‡ 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. โฑ๏ธ 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 ๐ŸŽง Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube โ€” Search Get The Net โœ… Matt Jurlina @jurlina_livingwild (IG) โœ… chums.nz (IG) โœ… balknbear (IG) โœ…  @chums.online  (YT) ๐Ÿ”— Links & Socials - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/๐ŸŽฃ-get-the-net----tight-lines-loose-lips๐ŸŽฃ/id1824558692 โœ… Follow Us - Instagram: @getthenet_nz - TikTok: @getthenet_nz - Facebook: @getthenet_nz ๐ŸŽต Music Used โœ… Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena โœ… Satellites, Swello โœ… Momentum, Zplit โœ… Source (YouTube Audio Library) # ๐ŸŽฅ Production Notes โœ… Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics โœ… Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro โœ… 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

  7. Oct 1โ€„ยทโ€„ Bonus

    Cool People Doing Cool Shit โ€” Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

    Scott Malcon has been in the NZ fishing industry his whole working life โ€” 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 โ€” finding uncharted rocks, live jack mackerel for bait, drift set-up, electric reel choice โ€” and how 60โ€“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. ๐Ÿ‘ค GuestScott Malcon โ€” Brand Manager, Daiwa New Zealand (Brittain Wynyard) - Daiwa NZ: https://www.daiwa.co.nz/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daiwa_nz/๐ŸŒŸ Links & Socials - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1824558692โœ… Follow Us - Instagram: @getthenet_nz - TikTok: @getthenet_nz - Facebook: @getthenet_nz (0:00) Cool people doing cool things(5:00) Fish of a lifetime โ€” soft bait tip, 300kg blue marlin, 50kg kingfish released(10:00) Deep dropping 101 โ€” uncharted rocks, live bait, setting the drift(15:00) Electric reels, circle hooks and the Daiwa story(20:00) Built for New Zealand โ€” Kiwi-spec rods and Scott's dream fish #GetTheNet #NZFishing #DaiwaNZ๐ŸŽต Music: Proctor (Topher Mohr & Alex Elena) | Satellites (Swello) | Momentum (Zplit) | Source โ€” YouTube Audio Library ๐ŸŽฅ 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 โ€” Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

  8. Sep 21

    Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour From Auckland โ€” Jonathan Watts

    Jonathan Watts runs Northside Adventures, a Hauraki Gulf charter operation he started in late 2018 โ€” 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 25โ€“30lb fluoro trace, and the line that'll start arguments โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” landed off his boat in 15โ€“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 โ€” watch on YouTube, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Guest : Jonathan Watts โ€” Northside Adventures Fishing Charters, Hauraki Gulf (since 2018). Kingfish and snapper charters departing Sandspit (Omaha launch available Mayโ€“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 โ€” https://www.instagram.com/northside_adventures/Phone: 027 389 7000Email: info@northsideadventures.co.nzTimestamps (00:00) โ€” Meet Jonathan. (10:00) โ€” 130km from the sea to the Gulf. (20:00) โ€” Reading the reef. (30:00) โ€” Fish care and the Lure Masters fish. (40:00) โ€” Comp tactics and finding workups. (50:00) โ€” Rapid fire.๐ŸŽฃ Links & Socials YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz]Apple Podcasts: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/๐ŸŽฃ-get-the-net-โ€“-tight-lines-loose-lips๐ŸŽ™๏ธ/id1824558692] โœ… Follow Us Instagram: @getthenet_nzTikTok: @getthenet_nzFacebook @getthenet_nz ๐ŸŽต Music Used โœ… Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena โœ… Satellites, Swello โœ… Momentum, Zplit โœ… Source (YouTube Audio Library) ๐ŸŽฅ Production Notes โœ… Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics โœ… Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro โœ… Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle

    Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour From Auckland โ€” Jonathan Watts
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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 NZโ€™s best anglers. From offshore Marlin to soft baits in the shallows, weโ€™re all about real fishing talkโ€”no gatekeeping, just good banter, expert tips, and the odd fishing fail.

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