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
🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️Show Notes
🎙️ 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 Kitteridge—a true OG in the scenewho’s spent decades writing, fishing, and teaching others how to do it better. They dive into softbaiting finesse, barbless hooks, 14-foot boats, a few humble lessons from the wash, and that time he accidentally caught a marlin whiletargeting kingfish.
Mark brings the wisdom, the honesty, and even shares a few feed-friendly fish recipes from the home kitchen. Whether you’re a weekend warrior or salty veteran, this episode’s full of laughs, lessons, and some properly good gear chat.
✅ Mark Kitteridge @markkitteridge (IG) ✅ Softbaiting the wash for snapper ✅ Topwater for Kingfish ✅ Marlin at the 3 Kings
Time Stamps: ✅ (00:00) – Intro & Marks early fishing days ✅ (06:00) – Humbled by the wash ✅ (15:00) – Marks 14-foot tinny ✅ (23:30) – Softbait Strategies ✅ (30:00) – Kingfish & Topwater
Gear & Techniques Discussed ✅ Targeting Snapper on softbaits ✅ Ocean Angler TopGun + Daiwa Certate 4000 ✅ Daiwa Saltiga 8’1” PE5 + Daiwa Saltiga 14000-XH ✅ Targeting Kingfish on Topwater
Recipes Shared ✅ Pan-Fried Fish with Crunchy Crumb ✅ Fish Fritters ✅ Fast & Easy Marinated Chinese/Fijian Fish ✅ Fish Balls with Melted Cheese Centres in Marinara
✅ Join the Caught Bugger All Club Had a rough day? - 'Send us your worst day fishing story for a shout-out and a chance to win!' Send us a 2-minute voice or video yarn about your fishing fail, and you could win a Glowbite lure + cap. Details in the episode or slide into the DMs on Instagram ✅ Listen & Watch - YouTube: www.youtube.com/@getthenet_nz
✅ Follow Us - Instagram: @getthenet_nz - TikTok: @getthenet_nz
Music Used ✅ Proctor, Topher Mohr & Alex Elena ✅ Satellites, Swello ✅ Momentum, Zplit ✅ Source (YouTube AudioLibrary)
Production Notes ✅ Shot on: Sony A7iii + Sennheiser lav mics ✅ Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro ✅ Shot, Edited & Produced by Nick Hoyle
More from 🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️
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 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.
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 — and never left. Rick sits down with Nick to share stories from nearly 50 years on the water, including White Island — his home away from home — 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.
Recorded on the Daiwa stand at the NZ Boat Fish Dive Expo. This Quick Cast is with Aaron Styles, founder of Just Another Fisherman.
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.
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.