by Nick Hoyle
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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July 6, 2026
<p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>Eighteen months in, it's his full-time life — and it all started because a trip to Westport didn't go the way it was supposed to.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode Nick and Matt go deep on the science of finding fish. What does a game fisherman actually need to look at on a chart? Why do bluefin behave like long-haul truckers — pulling off at the same productive stops year after year? How does the green-to-blue edge rule work, and when does the biggest fish of the year completely ignore it? </p><p><br></p><p>Matt breaks down both winter and summer oceanography, the South Island bluefin migration window, and why checking the wind map isn't enough — you need to know what the water was doing before the window opened. </p><p><br></p><p>There's a full breakdown of the tools and software he uses, plus the story of directing a client onto a triple Marlin strike from a garden centre, just by pulling up charts on his phone.</p><p><br></p><p>There's also a safety conversation that every NZ game fisherman needs to hear. Matt was 18 miles away when a father and son's trailer boat was caught in a factory trawler's rope off Greymouth — in the middle of the night, in cold South Island water, with no coastguard and no helicopter within range. Their Mayday call was two words. </p><p><br></p><p>The boat sank. They survived — rescued by Valhalla, who were cooking a roast when the call came in. This episode is bluefin season listening.</p><p><br></p><p>Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net</p><p>Matt Shucker @marinaintel_nz<br>Marine Intel marinaintel.co.nz</p><p><br></p><p>GET THE NET<br>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz</a><br>Instagram: @getthenet_nz<br>TikTok: @getthenet_nz<br>Facebook: @getthenet_nz</p><p><br></p><p>MUSIC<br>Proctor — Topher Mohr and Alex Elena<br>Satellites — Swello<br>Momentum — Zplit<br>Source: YouTube Audio Library</p><p><br></p><p>Shot, Edited and Produced by Nick Hoyle</p>
June 22, 2026
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.<br /><br />In this episode, Nick and Chad break down the full art of reading a surf beach — water colour, wave period, sand ridges, tide, moon phase, and why where you plant your rod stand is the single most important decision you'll make. Chad also gets into slide baiting for kingfish in the surf, why going as light as possible creates the most opportunities, and how the same principles that apply to boat fishing apply just as much when your feet are planted on the sand.<br /><br />The stories are something else. Two national title campaigns that involved 3am river crossings, pterodactyl-sized mozzies on 90 Mile Beach, and carrying a full load of competition fish out on foot across some of the most rugged coastline in New Zealand. Then there's the time at Cape Maria van Diemen where a collapsing volcanic rock sent Chad fifteen metres onto his back, broke his neck and spine in three places, and put a knife through his bag into his back — and he still looked at the conditions and thought they were good.<br /><br />A roosterfish in Puerto Rico is still on the bucket list. Everything else, he's pretty much done.<br /><br />🎧 Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net<br /><br />✅ Chad Prentice: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hardcoreoutdoorsnz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/hardcoreoutdoorsnz</a><br /><br />⏱️ Chapters:<br />0:00 Meet Chad<br />15:00 Winning the Nationals<br />30:00 Reading a Surf Beach<br />45:00 The Fall at Cape Maria<br />1:00:00 Slide Baiting & Kingfish in the Surf<br />1:15:00 Gear, Line Diameter & Going Light<br /><br />🔗 Links & Socials:<br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz</a><br />Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1824558692" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1824558692</a><br /><br />✅ Follow Us:<br />Instagram: @getthenet_nz | TikTok: @getthenet_nz | Facebook: @getthenet_nz<br /><br />🎵 Music: Proctor - Topher Mohr & Alex Elena | Satellites - Swello | Momentum - Zplit | Source: YouTube Audio Library
June 8, 2026
<p>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.</p><p>In this episode, Nick and Roy cover the full picture of what it takes to fish the Gulf at the highest level — reading workups, understanding bird behaviour, using technology such as BirdRadar to cut search time and maximise action, and why slowing down sometimes means finding more. Roy breaks down his approach to lure selection, kingfish behaviour, why barometric pressure matters more than most people realise, and the art of teaching complete beginners to catch fish on lures from day one.</p><p>There are some brilliant stories along the way — a striped marlin fixated on a snapper caught inside the Gulf while jigging with 400mm jigs, wrapping itself around its bill and fins three times in a row; a 2nd kingfish of a lifetime, finally caught after years of chasing it in the same place; and a yellowfin session with clients between Rakino and the Noises that produced 21 fish in a single day. Roy also discusses the state of the Gulf, why he thinks there's more of everything out there right now, and why pelagics pushing inside the harbour is something he hasn't seen in 23 years until recently.</p><p>His worst day on the water? Any day he's stuck on land.</p><p>Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTube — Search Get The Net</p><p>Roy Pulvers @Triton_Charters (IG)<br>Roy Pulvers @Fishndipscharters (IG)<br>https://www.facebook.com/FishnDipsCharters<br>https://www.facebook.com/TritonChartersNZ<br>www.youtube.com/@fishndipschartersltd3358</p><p>Chapters:<br>00:00 Meet Roy<br>00:15 The State of the Hauraki Gulf<br>00:30 Finding the Fish<br>00:45 Kingfish — The Smart Fish<br>01:00 Marlin in the Gulf & The 40kg King<br>01:15 Gear, Lures & Teaching Beginners</p><p>Links & Socials:<br>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz<br>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-the-net/id1824558692<br>Instagram: @getthenet_nz<br>TikTok: @getthenet_nz<br>Facebook: @getthenet_nz</p><p>Music Used:<br>Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena<br>Satellites, Swello<br>Momentum, Zplit<br>Source (YouTube Audio Library)</p><p>Production Notes:<br>Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser Mics<br>Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro<br>Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle</p>
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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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