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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.

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01:13:07

You Never Catch Anything on the Couch Matt Jurlina...

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2026/10/05

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

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00:23:57

Cool People Doing Cool Shit — Scott Malcon, Daiwa NZ

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2026/10/01

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,

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00:57:00

Kingfish, Workups and Comp-Winning Snapper an Hour...

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2026/09/21

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

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01:21:58

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

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2026/09/07

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

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01:02:44

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

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2026/08/24

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

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01:29:29

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

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2026/08/10

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

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01:15:35

$497,000 on the Other Side of Three-Meter Seas Mark...

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2026/07/27

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

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01:26:15

$70K, Three Swords, and a Chip on Their Shoulder Mark...

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2026/07/20

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

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01:15:29

Why You're NOT Finding the Bluefin!! Ocean...

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2026/07/06

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

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01:15:46

He broke his back for a fish | 4x NZ Surfcasting...

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2026/06/22

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

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00:59:07

The Man Who Always Finds the Fish — Roy Pulvers

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2026/06/08

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

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01:17:34

The Trophy Snapper Equation | Stray lining Secrets...

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2026/05/25

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 gets. Growing up fishing with his dad from the rocks at a spot they called Broken Ankle Point, Connor has spent his whole lifechasing snapper — and after years on the water professionally, he's broken down exactly what separates the people who consistently find big fish from the oneswho don't.In this episode, Nick and Connor go

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01:02:49

Cast Until It Hurts - Trophy Kings Off the Rocks |...

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2026/05/11

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 '90s, and never looked back. Gene runs Strictly Land Based, taking clients to the remote rocks and ledges that most fishermen only dream about, chasing trophy snapper and kingfish with stickbaits and topwater lures off the kind of coastline that'll make your knees shake.In this episode, Nick and Gene dive deep into what it

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01:02:00

3 Kings in a 3 6m Inflatable Tasman from NZ Wild...

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2026/04/27

3 Kings in a 3.6m Inflatable | Tasman from NZ Wild Adventures Pushes the Boundaries of What's PossibleTasman grew up on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds, homeschooled, self-sufficient, and fishing before he could drive. These days he documents some of the most audacious solo fishing and hunting adventures in New Zealand on his YouTube channel NZ Wild Adventures — mostly from the deck of a 3.6 metre inflatable.Three Kings solo. Fiordland for a month. Around Stewart Island. Sleeping in a

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01:04:49

Commercial Fishing's Dirty Secret | Extreme Waste,...

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2026/04/13

Dallas Abel grew up in Port Douglas, Far North Queensland —fishing, diving and hunting every chance he got. That coastal upbringing sparked a lifelong curiosity about the ocean that took him all the way through a marine science degree, into aquaculture, reef education, and eventually a role as a fisheries observer for MPI right here in New Zealand.In this episode, Dallas pulls back the curtain on what lifeas a fisheries observer actually looks like — including some of the confronting realities of

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01:12:46

From Tyres to Trophy Fish: Ethan Bryant’s Wild Rise...

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2026/03/30

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 pivots in New Zealand fishing. Less than a decade ago Ethan was running a tyre shop and working in the automotive world. Now he’s built a name as one of the most effective and hardest-working skippers in the country, spending nearly 300 days a year on the water and leading clients through the madness of the Three Kings fishery. But behind the

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00:55:47

She Worked on Game Boats… Now She’s Building Fishing...

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2026/03/16

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 game boats to building her own fishing brand.Lisa grew up around the ocean and spent time working aboard game fishing boats before settling down and starting a family. Her passion for fishing never faded, and while on maternity leave she finally took the leap to launch an apparel brand aimed at filling a gap she’d always noticed — fishing gear

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01:24:45

Nearly 900 Blue Marlin in One Season – Elite...

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2026/03/02

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 the world’s best sportfishing destinations. From his time aboard the legendary Carol Libby — part of a program that raised nearly 900 blue marlin in a season — to chasing giant bluefin tuna in Nova Scotia, Jimmy shares what it takes to operate at the highest level of gamefishing. Jimmy now runs Advanced Sport Fishing, helping Kiwi anglers rig

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01:09:34

He Was Told It Was a “Dumb Question”… Now He Runs NZs...

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2026/02/16

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 was a simple fishing question. Instead of backing down, he decided there had to be a better way for Kiwi fishos to connect, learn, and share without being ridiculed. That moment sparked what would become the NZ Fishing Community, now the largest online fishing group in the country.In this episode, Ben opens up about the early days — the

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01:04:16

How One Kiwi Changed Fishing Forever — The Rise of...

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2026/02/02

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 ago, when most people thought it was reckless or impossible, Andrew began converting JetSkis into capable offshore fishing platforms —laying the groundwork for what has now become a global movement.In this episode of Get The Net, Andrew shares thefull journey — from early DIY modifications to working directly with Sea-Doo on the development of

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