The Official Nash Tackle Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Joining host Hassan this week is Yorkshire’s big carp bounty hunter himself Mark Holmes. Mark has been an established personality in the carp fishing world for well over thirty years. From his early days fishing the mixed fisheries of Yorkshire learning to single out bigger fish through to his more recent incredible run of big carp from tricky venues this podcast covers it all. As...

Send us Fan Mail Joining host Hassan this week is an angler who even at a young age has put London urban big carp fishing on the map with a host of incredibley special captures under his belt, it's none other the Alfie Russell. Alfie is an extremely talented angler who has a passion for fishing in the hustle and bustle of London city searching for the “unknown” special carp that inhabit its w...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan on the podcast is the most eagerly anticipated of guests, none other then NashBait mastermind, former British record holder and the  all-round true character that is Gary Bayes. Gary starts by talking about suffering a recent heart attack and how he is straight back as busy as ever enjoying his life with his unrivalled passion for carp fishing and nat...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes Justin Carter, a truly inspirational man with an equally inspirational story having suffered a lifechanging accident whilst carp fishing leaving him paralysed and needing the use of a wheelchair. Justin talks about his love for big carp and he recalls successful campaigns on Ringstead and Deepings. On Ringstead he managed to bank majority of the stoc...

Send us Fan Mail Warning this weeks’ podcast contains huge amounts of BIG day ticket carp and the man responsible for these captures is the carping terminator that is Kev Hewitt. Joined by host Hassan, Kev shares firstly his iconic early days on the Linear Complex where he honed his love for spodding and the famous “three rods on a spot” approach that is so devastating for big hit fishing on Linea...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes “Mr Carp Angle” Joe Morgan. Joe is a truly unique, charismatic man who has a host of incredible carp captures under his belt. He prefers to keep relatively low key with his captures and we think you’ll be surprised by some of the fish that have ended up (or almost ended up) in his landing net over the years.  Joe has spent a considerable amount of ti...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve finally managed to pin him down and get him in the podcast studio! This week the podcast welcomes legendary big carp hunter Jim Shelley. Jim is widely acclaimed as one of the very best big carp anglers in the history of the sport. If any proof was needed as to Jim’s carping pedigree you only have to look at his incredible record including historic captures of some of the ver...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan is “The Urban Myth” himself Terry Dempsey. Terry talks us through his life from him discovering fishing in the hustle and bustle of industrial London through to his modern-day escapades on the most premier of big carp waters. Terry’s carping pedigree is undoubtable, and he recalls the incredible captures of his first 30lb fish from Hainault Forest and...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan is the one and only Adam Penning! Adam is highly regarded as one of the finest carp anglers in the country. His relentless pursuit of big, special carp on tricky, pressured venues competing against both the fish and the highest calibre of anglers set him apart from the crowd and in his own words defines him as a “Piscatorial Masochist” Adam talks thro...

Send us Fan Mail This week joining host Hassan is former Nash Tackle sponsored angler, now RidgeMonkey & Mainline Baits carp catching machine Dave Levy. There’s a reason this podcast is over four hours long and that is due to Dave’s relentless lifelong pursuit of carp! We look back at Dave’s formative years which where eventful to say the least. During these early years Dave (being from a mili...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes Nash Tackle Marketing Coordinator Henry Lennon. In this episode Henry tells his story in his own words. From his beginnings fishing in Switzerland avoiding Police and park rangers in pursuit of carp, pike and various other species armed with his John Bailey fishing encyclopaedia all the way through to joining Nash and him finding his feet in the mode...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes back Kevin Nash for Part 6 in his podcast miniseries  “A Carp Fishing Journey” This episode focuses on Kevin's exploits during his time fishing the infamous Essex Manor and the start of his campaign for an epic common carp named Herman from Warmwell. Kevin explains how he refined his rigs, bait and approach based on his previous experimentations...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes Nash Tackle Social Media Manager and former podcast host Alfie Willingale. In this episode Alfie talks about his own angling journey, from finding a telescopic rod and reel setup on a family holiday through to working for Nash Tackle and catching some incredible carp including a real Church lake stunner. It’s not all plain sailing as you’d expect and...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes back Kevin Nash for Part 5 in his podcast miniseries  “A Carp Fishing Journey” This episode focuses on the early to mid 90’s and yet more epic tales of Kevins’ European pioneering carping adventures to the likes of Lake Sarulesti (Raduta) and Italy. Kevin also share his experimentations with rigs, tackle and bait over this period which led him to som...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes Nash Tackle Media Manager and former podcast host Dan Yeomans. In this episode Dan talks about his early fishing years and how (after some “interesting” other jobs) he managed to get involved in the industry with Nash Tackle. In terms of his carp fishing Dan shares some of the most incredible, inspiring and downright hilarious tales of his carp fishi...

Send us Fan Mail This week making his second appearance on the podcast it’s Nash Tackles’ very own Tom Forman. In this episode Tom focuses on his own fishing over the years that he’s been at Nash Tackle. From his early years as a bailiff on Cavagnac through to his recent success on Bluebell Lakes’ Kingfisher, there’s a huge variety of incredible stories and equally incredible captures. Tom also sh...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Nash is back for Part 4 in his podcast miniseries  “A Carp Fishing Journey” In this episode Kevin concentrates on the early 1990’s detailing more incredible foreign pioneering carp fishing adventures on Lac Du Der as well as other venues in Holland and Belgium.  On a business level Kevin talks about the trials, tribulations and success with Nash Tackle during this period cum...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Nash once again joins Hassan for Part 3 in his podcast miniseries  “A Carp Fishing Journey” In this episode Kevin talks about his carp angling exploits in Gran Canaria, starting with his initial pioneering trip out there just after he left Harefield. Kevin shares stories about heading into the unknown searching for huge uncaught carp in crazy surroundings. He also talks thro...

Send us Fan Mail  This week we welcome the return of Kevin Nash for Part 2 in his miniseries “A Carp Fishing Journey”. In this episode Kevin picks up from where he left off talking through his progression in carp fishing over time as well as his formation/expansion of Happy Hooker tackle which is the starting point of  the "Nash Tackle" we know today. Along the way Kevin shares numerous...

Send us Fan Mail This week the podcast welcomes none other than the original “Mr Nash” himself Kevin Nash for the first episode in his miniseries entitled “A Carp Fishing Journey” In this episode Kevin takes us back to his childhood and shares his early memories of fishing “back in the day”. He also talks us through his beginning and experimentations in carp fishing including tackle developments,...

Send us Fan Mail This week Alan Blair joins host Hassan for the final instalment in his miniseries “From The Beginning”. This third and final episode is based on the hugely popular NashTv Youtube series “Urban Banx”. Alan talks through how the series was formed and developed over the years. He shares some “eventful” memories whilst filming various episodes from awesome captures to strange encounte...

Send us Fan Mail Once again joining Hassan this week its Nash Tackles’ very own Alan Blair for part 2 of his miniseries “From The Beginning” This episode focuses on “The Nash Years” from when Alan first started at the company up until the present day. As you can imagine there’s a wealth of topics covered throughout this podcast including not only his own personal development inside and outside the...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s podcast Mr Urban Banx himself Alan Blair joins Hassan for the first in a special miniseries all about his life in angling “From The Beginning”. In this episode Alan talks about his humble beginnings in fishing all the way through to the point at which he got his job at Nash Tackle. As to be expected from Alan it’s certainly not your stereotypical journey and it has...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan for this episode of the podcast is none other than Leon Bartropp. There's more than a few exclusives in this episode as Leon opens up for the first time publicly about his exceptionally varied and colourful past! There will be more than a few raised eyebrows I'm sure. Leon explores his incredible carp fishing history where he has caught some of the most so...

Send us Fan Mail Joining Hassan this week is Nash Tackles' very own "Mr O. D." Oli Davies. Straight talking, entertaining and almost poetic in places, in true Oli style he talks about a host of topics relating to his angling career both past and present. There's everything from the end of Eurobanx, fishing/stocking the Horton Complex,  "Half-A-Wrap" observations and a...