WEEKLY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Powder, used to make tacky ball of maggots (6,3) 8 Group of ships (5) 9 Resort on Isle of Wight (7) 10 That of rudd is short, with 10-13 rays (4,3) 11 Like over-soaked bread (5) 13 Spider ___: sea angling knot – a problem? (5) 14 Not an amateur, in short (3) 15/17 ac. ‘Fishing for Schools’ famous angler / tutor (*jailed ranchers) (7,7) 18 Carp fishing legend, _ _ Hutchinson (3) 19 Minor car crash (5) 21 Andrew __, float-maker extraordinaire (*I fled) (5) 23 ____ Lake: venue at Ridgeway Fisheries (*wastrel) (7) 25 Believes Hampshire contains an Avonside town! (7) 27 Small, lizard-like amphibians (5) 28 A mollusc-breeding area (*by E. Dorset?) (6,3)

DOWN

1 Donegal game fish river – for native of Helsinki? (4) 2 Thin, scrawny (6) 3 Horrified (6) 4 Willow _ _: a spinnerbait (4) 5 County Durham town on River Wear (*neat shop) (8) 6 Rescues (5) 7 Welsh border country (7) 8 e.g. hackle used in a streamer fly (7) 12 A line __ stops wind blowing line off reel (5) 14 Eddie ___ (died 2015), first angler to catch 40+lb mirror in UK (5) 15 Small wrasse, has black spot on tail’s ‘wrist’ (*king crow) (8) 16 ___ crankbait has a wobbling action (7) 17 Bulbous, hollow floats for shallow fishing (7) 20 Cumbrian town on the South Tyne (*no salt) (6) 21 Catfish ‘whisker’ (6) 22 Shaped like this, a stick float is more buoyant (5) 24 Chris __, lure fishing ace (4) 26 Some fish observe ... male ferrets! (4)