🎣 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.

🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️ is a sports podcast hosted by Nick Hoyle, with 35 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Nick Hoyle hosts 🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️, a sports show with 35 episodes published.

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

  Cool People Doing Cool Shit — Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

  Oct 1, 202624 min

  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.

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  Episode #34

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

  Sep 21, 202657 minS1

  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 7000 Email: info@northsideadventures.co.nz Timestamps (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-lips️/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

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

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

  Sep 7, 20261h 22m

  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-lips️/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

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  Episode #32

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

  Aug 24, 20261h 3mS1

  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

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  Episode #30

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

  Jul 20, 20261h 26mS1

  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

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