CROSSWORD

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Across

1/22 It has a caged spool and large line capacity (10,4)

7* Seek out, a salmon/trout river flowing into Donegal Bay (4) 9___ Smith, Iron Maiden guitarist and keen angler (6)

10 Shape of rod blanks (7) 11 Long, arduous walk ... in centre, Kilmarnock (4)

12 Pigeon trained to return to base (5) 13 River joining the Tame at Stockport (4)

14* Badger, oddly, travelled on canal boat! (6)

16 Hang e.g. balance from weigh hook (7)

18 Bite indicator that falls clear when rod lifted (4-3)

21 Tacky, like cheddar bait? (6) 22 See 1ac.

24 Bait additive, 2000x sweeter than sugar (*Latin) (5)

25 Bog material - popular bait additive (4)

26 ‘Milk sugar’ used as bait sweetener (*Scot ale) (7) 28 Decisive rounds of sports competition (6)

29 What an over-taut line may do (4) 30 Artificial lakes of water (10)

Down

2 Double hand fly casting technique – a bit shifty! (9)

3 Dense (5)

4 Lightly squeezed crimp on line (7) 5 Narrow strip of land with water either side (*this sum) (7)

6 Bob ___, twice UK Masters Champ (1997 & 1999) (0,7)

7 Slippery fish trapped in poleelastic (3)

8 Lee, twice Sensas Challenge Champ (5)

13 Crested water bird (5) 15 Ghost, but not the carp sort (*lough) (5) 17 Award-winning Angling Times columnist (*lead story!) (3,6)

19 In the open air ... some trout do ordinarily (7)

20 Removes bones from fish (7) 21 Tree – unusual *fir cone (7) 23___ Beedham, captain of England Ladies Carp Team (5)

25 A mottled bean, bait for carp and tench (*in pot) (5) 27 e.g. rod butt protector (3)