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NASH is coming to White Springs !!

The Nash Tackle Road Show is coming to White Springs 21st-22nd August.

Nash is finally coming to Wales and has chosen White Springs to be the only Welsh Venue host for their up and coming Nash Fishery Road show will be made up of a number of different venues and dates spread across the UK.

The Nash team visting White Springs has some very well known names including well known anglers Gary Bayes and Alan Story. Posted below is the official Nash itenary for the up and coming events.

Nash Fishery Roadshow 2010!!!

Alan Blair | 2010-03-02

A new concept for 2010 allowing you to get involved in all things Carpy!

As well as an immense innovative tackle range for 2010, Nash is also

launching a new concept in the form of a ‘Nash Fishery Road show’.

The Nash Fishery Road show will be made up of a number of different venues and dates spread across the UK giving anglers from far and wide a great opportunity to attend one or more of the many events on offer for FREE.

Each weekend show will give every visitor the chance to come and meet and chat with the Nash team, use all the latest tackle and go away with loads of top tips to put more fish on the bank.

The action-packed events allow you to get into real life fishing situations with some of the UKs finest carp catchers (maybe even catching a fish or two yourself!) Watch, attend and partake in the numerous talks, demonstrations and seminars that will cover everything from bait, technical rigs to spodding at range.

There will be a Nash stockist involved with each show allowing you to purchase some of the latest tackle from the 2010 range, plus the opportunity to top up your bait and terminal tackle with some excellent promotional packs from Nash.

And best of all – its FREE!

Ample free car parking

Refreshments available

For more details please keep an eye out in the press, local tackle shops, Nash tackle website, Fishery Road Show website and feel free to drop any email enquiries to www.nashtackle.co.uk Here is a breakdown into some of the activities/goings on at each of the Nash Fishery Road show dates . . .

The opportunity to meet on the bank, in real life fishing situations, with some of UKs greatest big carp catchers. Use their tackle and ask them the questions you have always wanted answered

– these lads are there to help you guys out. Who knows, you might

even bag a chunk on their rods!!

* Numerous talks, seminars, slide shows, demonstrations and advice

from the anglers in the know. A great opportunity to ask any

question or queries you may have relating to your fishing –

specific talks on casting, spodding, rigs, bait, fish safety,

stalking and floater fishing plus loads more

* Full range of Nash Tackle, Bait and Terminal Tackle that you can

get your hands on, use, experiment with, test, cast, throw, set up

and try. It gives you the visitor the opportunity to really see

what Nash has on offer whilst out on the bank.

* Dedicated junior area that encourages youngsters to understand

carp fishing especially watercraft and tactics. There will be bait

talks, rig tying sessions and plenty of opportunities to ask

questions you may have – there will be numerous small prizes for

different activities over the course of the show in the dedicated

junior area

* Regular competitions, games and raffles throughout the shows that

allows the visitor to go head to head with different anglers

competing in things like spodding, setting up bivvies, rig tying

etc – if you can beat the competition there are some great prizes

to be won – there are some excellent prizes in the raffles too

including weeks fishing in France and a day out fishing with top

Nash consultants.

* Bivvy Food – The Nash trained chef will run through some simple,

top quality, recipes that can be knocked up on the bank and not

look out of place in a Michelin star restaurant.

* Dedicated coarse fishing area that highlights different methods

including pole fishing, feeder/method fishing and float fishing –

please come and have and have a go at fishing – ideal for young

children.

* Dedicated Nash retailer allowing you to purchase the latest

products in the 2010 range

Below is a list of the proposed dates, venues and supporting tackle shops for the Nash Fishery Road Show 2010 . . . .

APRIL 24th AND 25th LINEAR (OXFORD)

MAY 8th AND 9th COBBLE ACRE (NORFOLK)

MAY 15th AND 16th BIRDS GREEN (ESSEX)

MAY 22nd AND 23rd WELLINGTON COUNTRY PARK (READING) -UNEXPECTED CANCELLATION!!!

JUNE 5th AND 6 th TODBER MANOR (SOUTH)

JUNE 19th AND 20th LAKEMORE FISHERIES (NORTH MID)

JULY 3rd AND 4th PENNS HALL (BIRMINGHAM)

JULY 10th AND 11th CARTHAGENA (HERTS)

JULY 31st AND AUGUST 1st MONK LAKES (Kent)

AUGUST 21st AND 22nd WHITE SPRINGS (SOUTH WALES)

SEPTEMBER 4th AND 5th BORDER FISHERIES (MIDLANDS)

SEPTEMBER 18th AND 19th BROAD LANDS (SOUTHAMPTON)

OCTOBER 2nd AND 3rd WYRESIDE FISHERIES (NORTH WEST)

OCTOBER 16th AND 17th CROWN NETHER HALL (ANGLING DIRECT)

Hope to see you at one of the dates,

Best wishes,

Alan Blair

Marketing Manager

Nash Tackle

Website has been a bit quiet lately because I havent been able to get down to Springs to grab the catch reports due to ill health, also as no-one is sending in any of their catch reports even though we know fish are being banked I cannot print anything on the site so I will take oppertunity to verbally smack all of your hands and remind you all that you are able to post up your own reports and pictures to the site via the news and events page just sign in and click post new and also you can pm me through the site with any results etc etc if you dont want to post yourself.

 I know that some have mentioned about the site being dormant over the last couple of months however please bear in mind that I cannot update the site unless I have this information either from Vince or yourselfs, I could post up what I have been up to over the last few weeks personally to fill in the time however I am sure your gonna get bored with that and unless i start dropping lines into my goldfish bowl i wont have many catch reports for you so please please please pm "whitesprings" on the site with any catch reports you have thanks. If you need to post up a picture then you can use http://tinypic.com/ to host and I will grab the picture from there and ftp it to the site. (No account is needed)

Anyway I finally got 5 minutes to drop into Vince last week and I can see that he and the lads there have been very busy over the last few months improving the grounds. He has put up two extra small lakeside shelter cabins on the Speci Lake and they should be finished at the time of writing, he has been working on improving the roads on site and has been re landscaping the area around the scandinavian cabins to make it look better and also to provide better access. There are posts up around the pegs now to stop people parking on the grass and a lot of the pegs have now been made larger and have been rebuilt and rebarked, a lot of the trees that have limted the angler from being able to cast have been removed or chopped back whilst at the same time still allowing there plenty of cover for the carp and other fish to hide and feed.

The road at the back of the new canal has been completed so that it allows people to park at the back of the canal and fish with ease.

And the new measures with regards to rubbish seems to be working and helping in keeping the place as litter free as possible, please dont forget to ask for a rubbish bag at the shop or take all rubbish home with you and if you see anyone being a litter bug report them to Vince.

The tackle shop has undergone a transformation to include a small coffee shop and you can now buy hot/cold food and tea and coffee on site as well as your usual items that are on sale there.

All in all Vince and the lads have been working very hard over the last few months in order to fufill the requests that have come in from you the fishermen. Dont forget to thank them when you see them.

I hear that Nash is coming to White Springs and I will post up more news as and when I get it. Over the next few days I will post up the news that I have been given.

Tight Lines

White Springs would like to share its good news with you, after extensive testing and mixing with different boilies the springs bannana flavour boilie is now available for sale in the tackle shop, it is coloured a light yellow brown colour and smells lovely and it is now for sale at a special price of 7.50 a kilio. Not only proving popular with the anglers is it also proving popular with the fish and during the last month of testing it has proved to be catching fish with Martin Mathews and Gavin the bailiff catching fish with them on the same day they went on sale in the shop. Whilst on the specimen lake Martin fished catching 4 carp to 20lb including a 19lb common in mint condition and also managed to pull in a couple of thirtys with one being 32.2lb. Also on the lake Paul Thomas caught 4 carp (weights unconfirmed) on the nash match 1 boilies. It seems as the weathers temperature has picked up so has the fishing and the last few slow weeks has come to an end and the fish seem to be back on the feed as on the other side of the site the pleasure lake was fishing well with carp up to 15lb being reported to us by several anglers, coming out at the various pegs.

The Match Anglers Winter Lague has now come to a finish with an extremely close last match with 5 anglers angling hard for 2nd place. The overall winner for the 2nd year in a row was Nigel Morris fighting off some good anglers who were close behind. Pipping everyone to the post in 2nd place was Chris Hall with 181lb 5oz,  3rd rob whittshire 179lb10 Ritchard Barnett 113lbs. Vince would like to thank Nigel Morris and Rob Dyer for organizing the matches.

In a seperate event on the new canal The Pirates held a match with Steve Davies winning with 81.5 catching mainly carp and bream using maggotts.

There has of course been a tremendous amount of fish over the last few weeks that have come out and not been reported, I have reports of a new 32lb'r  Mirror coming out of the specimen lake and also a new very very long 26lb'r common which havent been seen before and would like to point out that not only do 70% of the fish in the lake do not get caught, but 90% of those arent reported so new fish to some anglers coming out of the lakes are not an uncommon thing. Also I cannot report things if I do not get the reports coming in so dont be shy if you catch either post up by clicking the post new story or clicking here or send it to me (with pictures hopefully) and I will report it for you.

In the meantime good fishing all and get down there whilst the going is good.

The following named people have all won competitions in Carp Talk for the pictures we have submitted as part of our coverage of White Springs to the magazine. Congratulations to you all and to claim your prize please forward your Full Name and Postal Address and Contact Telephone Number to myself WhiteSprings Click here for profile link Thanks Alex

Steve Hunter

Army Mark

Christian du Plessis

On the 21st of February, i headed down to WhiteSprings fishery in south wales. When i got there i decided to set up on the old cabin swim as nobody was fishing there. For the last few weeks, this had been a spot on which i had blanked on. So with the rods cast out and all the gear ready i sat down and drank a cup of tea while the sun rised. Wtih no action, at about 12 o clock i recast a small pva bag filled with mainlines cell boilies on to what seemed to be a real hot spot. 10 minutes later I was battling it out with a small mirror which turned out to be 12lb 7ounces.   I then put both rods out on to the spot and shortly after i had another lively little mirror which weighed 13lb 2 and looked great in its winter colours.    About half an hour later i had an absolute screamer on the left hand rod and, following a spirited fight, i had a new PB Common in the net weighing 18lb 1oz.    One side of the fish looked great but the other was a bit random with the scaling pattern. After returning the fish, i had another take that felt like a big fish but unfortunatly the hooklink snapped but oh well, you cant land them all! I shouldnt have worried though because a few more minutes later, i had an absolutly stunning, fin perfect common of 17lbs exactly on the mat.    After all the action, it went dead for a few hours and then i had one last run as i was packing up. A beautiful mirror carp of 16lb 3oz was on the end and as the light was fadeing i managed to bundle him into the back of the net. 

    After a action packed day at 'Springs' i packed up and went home a very happy boy!

A new weather widget can be seen by scrolling down the page and looking on the right hand side of the page, this will automatically update and will give you all the details you will need to know direct from the met office.

All lakes are currently open and fishable at the time of print. There was small patches of thin ice on some of the lakes this morning however the lakes were fishable. Please ring the fishery if in any doubt or if travelling some distance as each day is different due to the weather

thanks

 
A good days december winters fishing at White springs fishery.

I can remember it well. I went on the old canal to fish for some perch. I started with a ledger rod down the edge to my right, I baited with red maggots,and fished a freshwater prawn on them,and did the same with the other rod,this rod was fishing to my left but with a float. This i fished over depth for lift bites.

It wasn't long before the ledger rods tip started tapping three or four taps and around it went and i was into a nice perch around the 2lb mark,so i put it in the keepnet,within five minutes the float started to slide across and out away from the bank i struck and i was into another nice perch again around the 2lb + so  again this one was in the keepnet.

That was it for the float rod.

I had TWO more good perch after that, they came on three dead,red maggots fished in the same spot. I decided to release the four perch as they had been in the keepnet for a while.So i needed some photos and a witness for one of the best days still-water perch fishing (excluding spinning for them on a nice river) i have ever had.

,The weights of the perch 1lb10oz ,2lb3oz, 2lb7oz. 2lb9oz

 total bag weight 8lb 3oz. 

Beat the recession at White Springs!

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Make a booking in Febuary and get a whopping 30% off accomodation prices for any month during 2010.

We would like to report that all lakes are currently open and fishable, Please ring in advance to make sure that this continues due to the unstable weather but whilst other fisherys are struggling with frozen lakes White Springs remains fishable

Hope to see you all soon.

  The recent weather has shut down nearly every fishery in the country, and although some of the lakes at White Springs have been closed due them freezing over we still have use of the Pleasure Lake and also part of the match lake and are still open for fishing to one and all.

As you can see on the day I took this photo it was pretty full with pegs that were open being very much in demand. There are a few pegs that were available on the canal lake when i was there however the Pit was frozen and also The Specimen Lake was pretty much frozen in most places when I looked and we even had to go out and break the ice to free up lines from fishermen who had woken up the next day to find them frozen into the lake :P. So please ring Vince before making the journey on 01792 885699 to make sure that you can get a place on the lakes and also to make sure the lakes haven't frozen further in the meantime. 

The below picture shows the frozen Specimen Lake however the lakes did show signs of thawing after the sun had come out.

The new 2010 prices have been released and Vince and Eileen are pleased to announce that the Membership prices for the Specimen Lake has been dropped from £75.00 to £50.00 and the Pleasure Lakes has been dropped from £50.00 to £40.00 per year.

The Pit lake prices have been heavily reduced in a futher gesture of goodwill from Vince and will now be at the much lower price of £4.50 Day Ticket for members and £7.50 Adult and £6.50 OAP/Child Day Tickets for non members. Purchasing a membership will allow you to fish at members discounted prices and during the months of Jan and Feb 2010 you can fish at half the price of members discounted rates. This means that you could be fishing as a member during Jan and Feb 2010 on the Pit Lake, Pleasure, Match and Canals for as little as £2.25 a day and the Specimen Lake for £5.00.

This massive price cut has been brought to you by Vince and Eileen of White Springs who would like to wish all their members a Merry Xmas and a happy New Year and tight lnes in 2010 for everyone.

 This photo by Mark was selected to be the Nov Photo Winner 2009 and will receive a free 24 hour pass to fish at White Springs

The below photo is the runner up photo that will receive a free day ticket pass.

White Springs was very proud to be chosen this year as a host for the CarpAnd.Co.uk Social event which is now becoming a very popular event in the angling calander, with anglers from the up and coming fishing website coming from all over the country to try and covet one of the very sought after swims that form part of the social event. With the specimen lake being entirely prebooked by the organisers and closed to day ticket anglers from Thursday evening onwards for the social event, the lucky qualifying participants of the Carp and Co Event started to travel down on the Friday and meet up at White Springs with the other angling members of the site. Even though they may have talked to other members on the site for some time, for some this was the very first time they were actually meeting in person the other members of the site where fishing ideas are explored in depth and help is available to all up and coming anglers.

The event is organised by CarpAnd.Co.uk administration who organise the events up and down the country and this one was organised by SparkyJon along with Dominic Walters. The idea is to pair up the anglers to each of the lakes swims, so that the anglers can come together in a social event, and share fishing tips, try out new things, swap tackle, help each other with their fishing, review fishing equipment and swap fishing storys of the one that got away! and if there is time in this busy schedule maybe even sneak a little fishing in as well. Well you gotta admit they are in the right place for it  as these anglers (and with there being some very experianced names in the mix) fish different lakes all over the country and discuss them on the site and coming together like this allows them to be able to put a face to the name of the people that they talk to regulary across the internet. This year they chose White Springs as their winter venue for their social gathering and meet. 

Most anglers had arrived by late Friday afternoon and set up their bivvys ready for the main event which was being held on Saturday. This was to be a free BBQ held at the new cabin swim that was organised by the fishery owner of White Springs Vince. A marquee was arranged, with staff, food, soft drinks for the youngsters and a few beers for the lads being provided by Vince free of charge, Vince being Vince with his wicked sense of humour  just had to put some duracell batteries for sale signs up to take the mick  there was entertainment with a few of the guys playing the guitar and singing some golden oldies that was a huge sucess and even got Vince dancing! Arrangements had been made so that they guys could watch the Welsh rugby that was on television that afternoon as many of the lads were huge rugby fans after the BBQ finished. Where better to do that but in Wales. The result was a social event that was a huge success and enjoyed by all, and with the rugby being on as well what more can you ask for at a social event.

With the lake being closed, the guys even though they had a busy social event and the rugby on and in fairness had to put up with some torrential rain that poured down over the weekend and suddden cold snaps, still had managed time to organise a mini fishing competition that in reality only consisted of a few hours of the rods being in the water mainly on the few hours available on the Friday after they arrived and a few hours on  Sunday before they packed up. With the winner of the event being young up and coming angler Luke Mainwaring who scooped the pool prize just before it was due to close.

With the extreme weather and the cold experianced at the event, it is a testiment to these anglers that in the very short time the rods were in the water at the infamous Specimen Lake here at White Springs, that any fish came out at all especially under these weather conditions but a few small lumps graced the banks. If you look at the impressive list of PB's of the anglers that attended the event (there will be a photo album of all the attending members by their rods taken on the sunday available shortly with their pbs in the photo details) you can see why it is a very much coveted social event to attend to, just for the wealth of knowledge within the angling industry that these anglers hold and why they managed to even in the short time they fished, managed to pull out a few small lumps here and there.

Speaking to the organisers SparkyJon and Dom they told me that they had enjoyed their time here at White Springs and they would like to thank Vince and White Springs for the hospitality shown. With the organisers already planning the next event due to the huge sucess of this one, they have mentioned that they would like to possibly hold one of the events here again with a view  of there being another one in April, with this one doing something that will help raise money for charity which is a worthy cause in anyones eyes. Events are organised all over the country to be fair to all their members who live futher afield.

We wish the anglers all their sucess in their future endeavours and anyone wanting to attend the next events can contact the forum for more details.

Tight Lines Everyone.

This week I managed to catch up with Vince and he gave me the updates and news from from White Springs.

Its been a good week especially on the pleasure lakes, the new stock seem to have stirred things up, last Sundays match on the old canal was won by a young 13 year old junior Aaron Slyman after arriving for the match late with the anglers drawing his peg for him, he went on to win the match with 78lb 8 oz. In second place was postman Steve Davies with 70lb 4oz.

The pirates also had a mid week match on the match lake with the winning weights coming from Keith Tucson on peg 12 with 113lb 13oz. In second place was Geoff Walker with 61lb 7oz and in third place was Gordon Furlong with 52lb 1 oz which are good weights for this time of year and especially with the cold and changeable weather.

On the pleasure lake carp are still coming out Alex Morris caught 5 nice size carp whilst fishing the night session from out of the cabin.

The New Canal is also producing good weights with bags of 50 - 60 lb being regulary reported.

The Pit and the Speciman lake has slowed up this week for the bigger fish, but plenty of fish up to 20lb are still being caught and after a couple of good weeks on the island the fish seem to have moved away to other parts of the lake this week.

The two photo winners for Octobers White Springs Photo Competition was Lee (Alfy) Calford with his 34lb 9oz PB named Billy The Bear. Lee won a 48hr session ticket courtesty of Vince White Springs site owner for submitting his photo and it coming in first. Second place was awarded to junior Lewis Mcdonald with a very nice 25lb mirror, which also became his new PB he won a day ticket also courtesy of Vince. So well done to those guys for their success both in the competition and also their PB's.

Keep your photos coming in, it is not the biggest or smallest fish it is the quality of photo, the title and any writeup with the photo that makes it a winner.

Also the Carpand.Co.uk Social was held over the weekend and was a resounding suceess with fun being had by all.

With christmas drawing in it has become that time of year for you to start thinking of next years membership, maybe even presuade someone to get it for you as a nice xmas present. Prices for the membership can be viewed from the prices page of the site.

Best Regards Vince

The winner of the October Photo Competition was this picture submitted by Lee (Alfy) Calford, who was fortunate to beat his personal best with this fantastic fish from the Specimen Lake which has been named Billy the Bear by the locals of White Springs and weighed in at 34lb 6oz. Congrats to Lee on this new personal best and for winning the October competition.

A runner up prize was awarded to Lewis Macdonald who also had also beat his personal best with this fantastic looking fish that weighed in at 25lb. Congrats to Lewis for his new personal best and for coming in as the runner up winner in the White Springs Photo Competion.

If you would like to enter the November Photo Competition and have the chance of winning a free 24 fishing pass here at White Springs then please click here and submit a photo today.

http://www.whitespringsfishery.co.uk/apps/photos/album?albumid=7380614 

We have a new section on the site where you can add your own testimonials of your experiances at White Springs. You can view and add your own by clicking

http://www.whitespringsfishery.co.uk/apps/testimonials/

White Springs is proud to announce that you can now chat to all of your friends directly from this site by using the new Meebo Instant Messaging Bar that is at the bottom of your screens.

Basically the chat bar is very similar to the one that you may have used on sites like Facebook and works in very much the same way, this one is a little special for not only can you talk to any of the site members that are here at White Springs when they are online of course or leave a message for them when they are not, but if you create a Meebo account by going to www.meebo.com or by clicking the link in chat box you can then also add your various chat accounts and connect to those networks all through this site.

Connect with all your friends, Meebo lets you access your buddies on all the following networks through this site (Facebook Myspace, Aim Google Talk, Twitter and myYearbook) and others like (MSN Yahoo and many many more via the main site www.meebo.com in a single buddylist, right from your browser here at the White Springs Site, now you gotta admit that is handy. Try it today and start talking to your friends online through the White Springs Meebo interface.

Also we have a test chat room up at present that can be visited here http://www.whitespringsfishery.co.uk/chatroom.htm

and with plans to open the site forum back up for the members it is all happening this week for the members to be able to communicate with each other easier.

Hope you enjoy the new site functionality there is more to come but that is for another day

Tight Lines

Dont forget the specimen lake is full this weekend 6-8th November 2009 with the Carpand.co.uk Social Fishing Get Together.

We look forward to seeing The Crew down in force showing us how it is all done.

Good luck to you all I shall look forward to meeting you all.

TIght Lines Guys. 

Pictured here is Matthew Alderman (13) and Geoff Morris (38) from Llanelli who are enjoying a day fishing on the match lake after being awarded a special one off runner up prize from Vince of White Springs for their photo entry into the Sept Photo Competition. Vince decided to award the runner up prize to the photo after seeing their entry which is pictured below as he thinks that it is especially important to encourage the children to fish as they are the future anglers of tommorrow and Matthew Alderman is certainly proving to be a future angler of today for in the short time that they had been there Matthew had managed to clock up 1 Mirror, 3 Commons all averaging the 3lb mark and also a small bream and a small roach by the time I caught up to them on the Match Lake on Sunday even though the fishing was being reported as slow on every lake due to the sudden cold spell we experianced. Well done Matthew and we hope to see you on the lakes more often.

TIght Lines mate.