The Official Nash Tackle Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes one of the angling worlds true characters, West Midlands finest all round angler, the one and only Des Taylor. Des is a true specimen hunter setting his sights on all manner of species both home and abroad over his incredible 50+ year angling career (and counting) Des talks in depth about his carp fishing including filming and iconic and influential...

Send us Fan Mail This week in the studio we have the EuroBanx Nash “dream team” of Alan Blair and Oli Davies who are sharing their wisdom and experience of winter fishing. Winter can often be a time where anglers catch rate drops and with it does the motivation to carry on angling through the winter, that’s of course if the rods aren’t already hung up until the spring. Winter can be an incredible,...

Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome long standing Nash angler, former legal “big wig” and one of the busiest and most helpful men in carp fishing, none other than Julian Cundiff. Julian takes us back to his formative carp fishing days where he was noticed after submitting an article to Tim Paisley and given the nickname “The Selby Flyer”. This nickname was fitting of Julian’s incredible work eth...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes a pair of carp fishing brothers who are not only incredible hauling machines both on their home waters and abroad but they also have a real passion for sharing their knowledge via their successful YouTube channel Reel Fishing UK, it’s Lewis and Daniel Daneshi. Daniel and Lewis maybe best known for their time fishing Farlows. They have regularly fishe...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan this week is a man with not only an incredible carp fishing pedigree but over sixty years fishing experience. His career has seen him writing for historic, iconic publications such as Carp Fisher and The BCSG 7th Book, working alongside other legends of the carp fishing world. Throughout it all he has been catching big carp from home and abroad as well as turning hi...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to living legends, they don’t come bigger in carp fishing then Tim Paisley. In this episode of the podcast Hassan was fortunate enough to meet up with the man himself and record this podcast surrounded by a huge amount of carp fishing history in Tim’s own home office. Tim Paisley has changed the landscape of carp fishing forever in respect to his carp fishing writing...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the podcast studio this week is our first solo female carp angler, Ladies Carp Team England Captain, former Carp Talk & CarpWorld editor its non-other than Bev Clifford. Bev has achieved so much in her angling career from incredible carp captures both home and abroad, editing the iconic Carp Talk and CarpWorld magazines, captaining her country in internationa...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan in the podcast studio is a real carp fishing character, Birmingham’s finest and a man who has carved out an incredible media career in the industry which started way back in the 1990’s, its none other than Jon “Shoes” Jones. We all know carp fishing is full of characters and nothing goes to prove that more than this podcast. From his early years fishing th...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the podcast the boss is back, Kevin Nash is in the podcast studio to talk about his history owning and developing his own fisheries both home and abroad. Starting with his own lakes dug from scratch on the same sight as Nash HQ. Kev talks about his vision, struggles and triumph in creating both the famous Nash Copse and Church lakes. There’s an incredible insight into...

Send us Fan Mail For our 50th episode of the podcast we bring you a different style of show from a different location…. We are at the Nash Expo 2021 Trade Show where Hassan will be interviewing various members of the Nash Team on their favourite items of new tackle coming to a tackle shop near you in the not to distant future. Those eagle eyed/eared may spot a few exclusives that we haven’t talked...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks’ podcast features Jim Shelley, Alan Blair, Nigel Sharp, Jeremy Wade, Steve Briggs, Kev Hewitt, Dave Levy, Terry Dempsey and Scott Lloyd in a celebratory look back at a selection of the standout moments (for a variety of reasons) during season two of the podcast. I think you’ll agree the line-up of names alone would make some serious VIP carping guest, that’s without the...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks’ guest in the podcast studio is the enigmatic, charismatic and timeless carp fishing star that is Ian Russell. When it comes to carp fishing there are very few named anglers whose careers have been so varied and incredibly successful as Ian’s’. Whether its catching numbers of carp, big carp, making bait or working on tv Ian has done it all and all in his customary class...

Send us Fan Mail This week NashBait main man Max Hendry joins Hassan in the podcast studio for a catch up since his last appearance on the podcast back at the start of season one. Max is a “unique” character hence a host of nicknames “Instability Max” and hashtags #ThatsSoMaxHendry that have been created off the back of his antics. In this podcast Max speaks frankly about a very testing two years...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan this week is a modern day carping giant who has probably the best carp in the land on his CV in the shape of the Burghfield common at over 62lbs as well as a host of other incredible carp, its none other than Scott “Eggy Lad” Lloyd. There’s no doubting not only Scott’s incredible carp catching ability but also his infectious, very unique personality but in this podc...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes the enigmatic, charismatic Northern Angling Show director and now new Nash Product Innovations Manager Nick ‘Reedy” Maddix. Wherever Reedy is or whatever he’s involved in there’s sure to be energy, enthusiasm and plenty of laughs, this podcast is certainly no different. Reedy talks through his early years fishing around his home town of Bedfordshire...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan in the studio is Nash Tackle Product Innovations Manager Mike Wilson! Warning…. look out for a shock announcement in this podcast and have your tissues ready! Mike has been with Nash since his teenage years and has grown to be a fundamental part of Life at Nash and responsible for a whole host of incredible Nash products over the years including the new “yet to be s...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining us for the second time this series is none other than the living legend and Nash/Carp Fishing Hall Of Famer Steve Briggs. To our knowledge Steve is the only man on the planet to have caught FIFTEEN different 50lb+ carp for FIFTEEN different countries! If that’s not impressive enough, he’s still out there doing it and I’m sure number sixteen isn’t too far away! Th...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan in the podcast studio is a self made carp fishing YouTuber, the man behind “Forbidden Routes” Jack Thomson. Jack is a truly passionate and skilled carp angler who manages to catch some incredible carp for all over the country despite holding down a family and full time job. Add to this the fact that he also documents his own fishing adventures on his...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes one of the industries top videographers, former England International and a man who likes his carp British and full of history, Dan Wildbore. Dan and his brother Jake grew up in Leicestershire and both of them despite their relative youth have achieved a huge amount both on the bank and in a wider aspect working in the industry. There’s certainly som...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan in the studio is RidgeMonkey front man and star of ‘The Great Escape’ series Dan Hawkes. Dan is not only a well-known high profile carp angler but he is a dynamic sales manager for RidgeMonkey and has been instrumental in the development of the brand in recent years. Dan shares in a very personal and in depth manner the story of how he came to work in the...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan in the studio we have another northern carp fishing legend, former Mr Nutrabaits himself Bill Cottam. Bill has an incredible carp fishing pedigree dedicating himself to the sport in his early years fishing venues such as Lymm Dam before a meeting of carping minds led to a huge number of changes and would set the president for Bills’ future work within the...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining Hassan in the podcast studio is global fishing superstar, biologist, author and star of the hit television series “River Monsters” Jeremy Wade. Fishing meets worldwide celebrity in this unprecedented podcast, we still can’t believe we managed to get him on. I think it’s safe to say and as you’re about to discover Jeremy Wade is in a league of his own.  Jeremy set...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes a true carp fishing character and star of Advanced Carp Fishing’s “The Weekender” series Steve Renyard. Steve has an incredible carp fishing pedigree cutting his teeth fishing in the 80’s catching much sought after twenty pounders. He talks about being fortunate enough to learn from three of the greatest carp fishermen that have ever cast a rod, thes...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcome “Yateley Legend” and all-round big carp machine Nigel Sharp. For the real carp fishing connoisseur Nigel’s carp fishing photo album has to be regarded as one of the very best! It features some of the rarest, hardest to catch and finest carp that have ever graced our waters. Starting back in the early 1990’s Nigel’s talks about how he came to start fis...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast sees the return of “The London Carper” Jacob Worth.  Jacob is a young man who certainly is going places not only with his angling but also  within the angling industry itself. It’s been over a year since Jacob feature in Series 1, Episode 16 of the podcast and its fair to say a lot has happened in that time. Jacob talks about his fishing over  lockdown and ho...