About Nash
Kevin Nash started selling his own high-protection weigh slings and carp sacks in 1978 after failing to find tackle that treated big carp properly, trading first as Happy Hooker Tackle in Essex. The business became Kevin Nash Tackle in 1984 and Nash Tackle in 2004, and it operates today as part of Kevin Nash Group Ltd from Burnham Business Park in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Nash the angler earned the credentials behind the catalogue: he landed Essex's first 40lb carp in 1985 and held the UK record brace with two fish over 50lb taken inside fifteen minutes.
The company's product history reads as a list of carp-fishing firsts. Oval umbrellas, holdalls that carry rods made up with reels attached, rigid-frame shelters and the speed-sensing Siren R3 bite alarm all originated at Nash. The rod line follows the same instinct. The 2012 Scope replaced the conventional twelve-foot two-piece with a retractable butt section that packs a full 9ft blank down to 44 inches, opening up waters that never see a rod holdall.
The current rod range splits into two families, both dealer-sold and test-curve rated. Scope covers the compact retractable format in standard 24 tonne builds and the higher-grade OPS and Black Ops versions, with abbreviated shrink, Duplon and cork handle options; a 2025 restructure folded the old Dwarf line into Scope proper. Air Force covers full-length 12ft and 13ft distance rods in a three-step F10, F20, F40 grade ladder with matching spod and marker variants.
What Nash is known for
Nash is a carp-only company and the Scope is its defining rod: the retractable-butt format launched in 2012 packs a made-up 9ft rod to 44 inches and a 10ft to 50 inches, and it built a following among mobile, short-session and urban anglers. The brand is equally associated with fish care, the category Kevin Nash effectively created with his 1978 weigh slings and carp sacks, and with the bivvies, bedchairs and Siren alarms that outfit the rest of the swim. The Air Force range added a distance-casting platform, topped by the 40 tonne Toray F40 built for casts past 200 metres.