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🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️
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
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️He Lost His Gaff to a Yellowfin… Then It Came Back | William Lomas | GTN Quick Cast
William 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️56 Years Underwater What NZ's Oceans Need This Election Darren Shields, 6x NZ Spearfishing Champ
Darren 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️The 100kg Bluefin Club: 26 Years of Fishing with Justin Corric | Daiwa Quick Casts
In 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️He Wasn’t Even Trying — 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Fishing for Your Mental Health: $120K Raised for Gumboot Friday – 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️$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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️$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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️The Trophy Snapper Equation | Stray lining Secrets Revealed | Connor Scott
Connor 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Cast Until It Hurts - Trophy Kings Off the Rocks | Gene Bryant, Strictly Landbased
Gene 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…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️3 Kings in a 3 6m Inflatable Tasman from NZ Wild Adventures Pushes the Boundaries of What's Possible
3 Kings in a 3.6m Inflatable | Tasman from NZ Wild Adventures Pushes the Boundaries of What's Possible Tasman grew up on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Commercial Fishing's Dirty Secret | Extreme Waste, Destruction & One Man's Fight to Make a Difference — Dallas Abel
Dallas Abel grew up in Port Douglas, Far North Queensland —fishing, diving and hunting every chance he got. That coastal upbringing sparked a lifelong…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️From Tyres to Trophy Fish: Ethan Bryant’s Wild Rise at the Three Kings
In this episode of Get The Net, we sit down with Ethan Bryant, skipper of Te Ariki Nui in the Pelagic Charters fleet, to talk about one of the wildest career…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️She Worked on Game Boats… Now She’s Building Fishing Gear Lisa Noble
In this episode of Get The Net, we sit down with Lisa Noble, founder of Ocean Obsessed Apparel and Swordie Boots, to talk about her journey from working on…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Nearly 900 Blue Marlin in One Season – Elite Gamefishing Secrets | Jimmy Brown
In this episode of Get The Net, we sit down with private skipper Jimmy Brown, a fisherman with a seriously impressive career spanning New Zealand and some of…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️He Was Told It Was a “Dumb Question”… Now He Runs NZs Largest Fishing Platform
Ben Chissell didn’t set out to build New Zealand’s biggest online fishing platform — he started it after getting absolutely slammed for asking what he thought…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️How One Kiwi Changed Fishing Forever — The Rise of JetSki Fishing
How One Kiwi Changed Fishing Forever — The Rise of JetSkiFishing Andrew Hill is one of the true pioneers of JetSki fishing in New Zealand. Nearly two decades…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️200kg Bluefin Tuna, Striped Marlin, and the Swordfish That Attacked His Boat
200kg Bluefin Tuna, Striped Marlin, and the SwordfishThat Attacked His Boat Luke Davis is one of those names that needs no introduction in New Zealand fishing…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️2,776 Blue Marlin: What Steve Campbell Knows That Others Don’t
Steve Campbell isn’t just another name — he’s a legend of the blue-water world. Skipper, charter captain, scientist, author (Blue Marlin Magic) — Steve has…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Why You’re Not Catching Kingfish!! Live Baiting Masterclass with Capt Stacky
Nick Stack — or “Stacky” to just about everyone in Whitianga — has been chasing fish for nearly five decades, and he’s one of the most respected charter…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️She Sold Everything to Make a Fishing Show… Then Caught a World Record, How Nicky Sinden Built 'TradeZone Addicted To Fishing'
In this episode of Get The Net, Nicky Wilson — betterknown as Nicky Sinden from TradeZone Addicted to Fishing— sits down to share the real story behind one of…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️From the Manukau to the Far North – William’s Journey to Living Free
William Lomas — better known as William the Fisherman — has built a loyal following by keeping things real. From his early days netting mullet in the Manukau…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Matt Wells on Surviving Off the Land, Kayak Fishing & Viral Fame| Get the Net Podcast | EP12
Matt Wells – better known as Nomadic Kayak Fishing – isn’t just the guy who went viral after being chased by a great white shark while livebaiting for kingfish…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️‘In Joon Park’ Deep Drops, Swordfish & The Korean BBQ Lure | Get the Net Podcast | EP11
In Joon Park, better known as @extreme_fishingnz, is one of the most recognisable personalities in the New Zealand fishing scene. His hilarious reels…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️‘Wayne Downer’ Snapper, Kingfish & The Lure Masters Journey | Get the Net Podcast | EP10
From his early days exploring Motuora Island and the Wenderholm Inlet in a little Sea Nymph with a smoky 2-stroke, Wayne Downer has built a lifetime of fishing…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Devan Vitali Family man crafting experiences & creating the NZOFC | Get the Net EP09
Devan Vitali has spent a lifetime on the water, but thesedays fishing means something even more special – building memories with his kids and sharing the…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Kaz Otsubo – ‘The Fishing Wiki’ & Oceans Legacy NZ | Get the Net Podcast | Ep08
Kaz Otsubo is a lifelong angler and the owner of The Fishing Wiki, the go-to place for Oceans Legacy gear in New Zealand. Born and raised in Japan, Kaz grew up…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️From a Breakup to the Best Year of Her Life — Kyla Klintworth ("She Hooks n Hunts") | Get the Net | EP07
Kyla Klintworth, better known as She Hooks and Hunts,joins us for a relaxed, inspiring chat about her journey into the outdoors. In this inspiring and candid…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Kubura Fishing & the Surprise Sailfish – Nik Key Goes Deep |Get the Net Podcast | EP06
Nik Key is the owner and skipper behind Snap Fishing Ventures, with over 30 years of obsessive lure fishing experience. He’s not just a charter skipper, he’s a…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️'Ruan Hayward' Surf to Ski, Jet Skis, Big Dreams & Bigger Fish | Get the Net Podcast EP05
'Ruan Hayward' Surf to Ski, Jet Skis, Big Dreams & Bigger Fish | Get the Net Podcast | EP05 In this episode of Get the Net, Nick chats with Ruan Hayward— a…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️🎙️ Nick Patrick, Rods, Reels & Raw Fish + Looking after your gear | Get the Net Podcast Ep04
🎙️ Nick Patrick, Rods, Reels & Raw Fish + Looking after your gear | Get the Net Podcast Ep04 In this episode of Get the Net, Nick sits down with…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Tony 'TK' Walker, Deep Lines & Hard Yarns, TK's Offshore Life | Get the Net Podcast | Ep03
🎙️ Tony ‘TK’ Walker, Deep Lines & Hard Yarns, TK's Offshore Life In this episode of Get the Net, Nick chats with commercial fishing veteran Tony “TK” Walker…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️EP02 'Wes Braddock' Innovation, Kiwi Fishing & Lighting up the deep Get the Net NZ
🎙️ Wes Braddock – Bright Ideas & Better Fishing In this episode of Get the Net, Nick chats with WesBraddock—former science teacher, keen fisho, and the…
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Ep01 'Mark Kitteridge' Get the Net NZ - Fishing Legend, Light Gear B- Kingfish, Softbaits & Fishing Yarns from a Kiwi Legend, Light Gear Battles & Cooking Kai
🎙️ Mark Kitteridge – Kingfish, Softbaits & Fishing Yarns from a Kiwi Legend In this episode of Get the Net, Nick sits down with legendary Kiwi fisho Mark…