The Official Nash Tackle Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan is the multi talented, big carp angler and North West legend that is Jamie Clossick. From music, poker, the elite of carp fishing, starting the first ever carp fishing podcast "The Carp Cast" Jamie has done it all. Whilst his incredible depth and intelligence has also been channeled into catching some of the finest and hardest to catch of carp ov...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast sees the return of former guest and one of the finest UK big carp hunters Adam Penning. Adam picks up from where he left off his last podcast talking about his concluding capture of "Tyson" a very big, very hard earned common carp which saw him end his campaign. He goes on to speak about notable other escapades on various other Venus such as The Wha...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes a real northern big carp legend in the form of Rob Gillespie. Despite hanging up the rods for over a decade Rob has had a huge impact on the big carp scene, catching the most desirable and difficult carp from famous waters such as Capesthorne, Redsmere, Tatton Park, Stoneacres and Dinton to name but a few. Over the course of the podcast he talks in d...

Send us Fan Mail Joining host Hassan this week is the Nash Tackle trio of Oli Davies, Tom Forman and Jacob Worth. It's been a while but the team are back with another podcast debate, giving their opinions on four different carp fishing questions, these being long rods or short rods? Europe or UK? Top UK day ticket water? What is best carp fishing rig? Sit back and enjoy an hour of intense Nas...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the podcast studio is North West based carp angler, ultra talented graphic designer and the mastermind behind Kumu Clothing Stephen May. Stephen's angling exploits are relatively unknown but the depth and variety of angling he has done over the years is incredible. He recalls chapters from his youth on various caravan park based holidays with his parents thr...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the podcast studio this week is legendary carp angler, carp fishing historian and a man who's very much been there, seen it and got the t-shirt when it comes to carp fishing over a span of eight decades, its the one and only Chris Ball. Chris talks about his life time in angling and the changes he has witnessed over the years. Throughout time Chris has been...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks podcast guest is a young man with an incredible sense of carp fishing adventure, determination and searching for unknown big carp, its Nash Tackle consultant Connor Hatton. Connor being based in the North West talks about his angling and how he's been brought up the hard way, fishing low stock waters and having to persist through countless blanks in order to hone h...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes current British Carp Fishing Record holder Dean Fletcher. Despite an incredible wealth of both angling experience and incredible "A list" captures Dean talks about how his carp fishing has always been one night per week. He shares his no nonsense approach which he takes everywhere a uses to devastating effect even when the water has been do...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks podcast guest has been described by many of the very best anglers in the country as a carp fishing "terminator", it's Nash consultant and Derbys finest Garry Atkin. Garry has been a carp angler for decades and he firstly recalls his formative years around the "colourful scene" of his local lakes before he made the plunge to travel to a historica...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks podcast is an in-depth look at the technical side of the rigs chosen by Nash Tackles very own Steve Briggs, Tom Forman and Alfie Willingale. The lads discuss their own choice of popup and bottom bait/wafter rig and exactly what components they chose to use. They recall why they have come to these specific rigs and the success they've had using them.  There's a...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan this week is the definition of a big carp target angler, a man who is all about fishing "off the beaten track" and Mr BIG DOG particles himself Dan Kilgour. Dan is not a household name to the wider fishing public but he has huge respect and acclaim from the biggest and best names in the carp fishing world due to his angling exploits and chosen style of ang...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a special episode of the podcast filmed LIVE at The Northern Carp Show where special guests Ali Hamidi, Frank Warwick and our very own Oli Davies joined Hassan on stage for a good old debate. The A list panel discussed their favourite carp of all time, the best carp fishing country, the best UK carp fishing venue and moon phases. As you would expect they were all...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the studio this week is Cotswolds outdoorsman and Nash consultant Luke Bowns or how he is more "affectionately" known Cotswold Puke. Luke is a die hard carp angler who has spent the best part of thirty years fishing the waters in and around the Cotswolds Water Park. He talks about his love of the area and why he chooses to fish low stock, busy waters ra...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan is a unique, self confessed carping "river pirate" and star of Cypography's "Wildman" series Finn Lewis. Finn is a young man who very much treads his own path in carp fishing and has an incredibly mature attitude which far exceeds his years. He's a strong believer in staying away from the well beaten carp fishing path of day t...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the podcast studio is Talk Sport "Fishermans Blues" host, angling all rounder and overseas multi species pioneer Nigel Botherway. Nigel talks through his carp fishing history, starting on the Diana Pond experiencing the revolution of "the hair rig" and rubbing shoulders with Terry Hearn and Jason Hayward, through to  his recent lake record cap...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the podcast we have owner of "Tails Up" baits and Ashbury Fisheries own Ash Bradbury. Ash has an incredible carp fishing pedigree fishing some of the most historic and iconic venues in his time. He shares stories about The Essex Manor, Horton, Kingsmead as well as Cleverly Mere and Top Lake which he now runs and has renamed "Ashbury Fisheries".  As...

Send us Fan Mail Join Hassan in the podcast studio with Nash Tackles very own version of Thelma and Louise Dan Yeomans and Henry Lennon. The pair talk about the new series "Continental Connections"  which episode 1 is now available to view on Nash TV. They share the inspiration for the series and how things panned out on their first trip to film in Italy. As expected there's a fair...

Send us Fan Mail Returning to the podcast studio is the one and only carp catching machine that is Jim Shelley. In this podcast Jim talks about his new found love for European fishing and how this has given him a new sense of freedom that he has been missing on the UK carp scene in recent times. Jim talk through significant European adventures including some incredible captures from some amazing v...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcasts welcomes the return of our very own Alan Blair and Dan Yeomans who join Hassan in the studio to talk in depth about the latest NashTv video release "Borrowed Time". They talk candidly about the bits you don't see in the video and exactly what went into  fishing and documenting Alan's awesome campaign on an incredible hidden gem of a water...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan is former CC Moores man, French public lake carping genius and now Nash Tackles very own John Timmermans.  John is most well know for his exploits over in France but prior to his adventures abroad he talks about his fishing in the UK including various venues from Kent to the River Trent in Nottingham, John explains how the carp bug lead him to complet...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan for the first podcast of 2023 is former host and Nash Media Manager, our very own Dan Yeomans. Dan sits down and talks through the capture of one of the finest fish to swim in UK waters, a fish that's held in the highest regard and is the finest in "The Fens" the Swavesey Fish. Dan talks through how he came to fish the venue, why this local area and t...

Send us Fan Mail In this Christmas Day edition of the podcast, joining Hassan is one of (if not the) greatest all round anglers to ever wet a line Martin Bowler. Martin is more then just an angler with an incredible editorial career with the Angling Times through to huge tv series such as "Catching The Impossible" Martin is an extremely self driven, hard working man who has tirelessly pr...

Send us Fan Mail This week see the return to the podcast of RidgeMonkey front man and newly crowned Carp Angler Of The Year 2022 Dave Levy. Dave talks in details about and incredible trip to Euro Aqua which saw him, along with Paul Getty from RidgeMonkey bank numerous 60lb,70lb and even 80lb carp cumulating in two personal bests, these being a 90lb+ common and 101lb mirror carp. Literally a trip o...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks podcast is dedicated to our latest video release in the shape of the hugely successful and somewhat unique "The Docks" staring our very own Jacob Worth and edited by videographer Bradley Chambers. The podcast covers the behind the scenes not shown aspects of Jacobs two year winter campaign on The Docks in London which cumulated in thy capture of a 50lb+ ghost...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan from the comfort of his lakeside Cotswolds cabin is non other than Myles Gibson himself, one of the finest big carp hunters on the scene at the moment.  Myles has caught some of the very finest carp from the most challenging of waters. His angling ability has been proven time and time again with incredible results on places such as Redsmere, Stoneacres, Di...