CROSSWORD

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Across

1 Event like e.g. RiverFest or Fish’O (7)

5 Where lines are attached on bottom-end floats (5)

8/24 dn. Water between England/Scotland (*try who fails) (6,5)

9 PTFE bushes can be internal or ____ (8) 10 Scandinavian capital ... in Czechoslovakia! (4)

11 e.g. putchers, snares (5)

12/13 Golden Reel Champ of 2020 (*a contest, yo!) (4,6)

14 Place where fish eggs are developed artificially (8)

17 A __ __ used with slider can be tied with powergum (4,4)

20 e.g. notch in bread punch’s blade (6)

22 Competent, skilful (4)

24 Welsh town on Dee estuary... and type of quartz (5)

25 Pavement’s stone edge (4) 26 Carp set-up for pop-ups (5,3)

27 Peperami’s pungent ingredient (6)

28 Its Latin name is Tinca tinca (5)

29 Alfie ___, Angling Times ‘Young Angler of the Year’ (2018) (7)

Down

1 Figure-of-eight knot, connects elastic to rig (5,4)

2 Isle of Wight town on River Medina (*no twerp!) (7)

3 One of two rivers emptying into Cardiff Bay (3)

4 East Anglian estuary/bay fed by Great Ouse (3,4)

5 Skid bungs protect these rod parts (5)

6 Extend e.g. catapult elastic (7)

7 Country hosting 2021 European Champs Float Angling (5)

11 Grendon Lakes monster carp 55lb+ in Oct 2020 (*stony) (5)

15 As lines should be in zig rig fishing (5)

16 Major Tweed tributary flowing wholly in England (5,4)

18 Lancs. city on the Ribble (7)

19 Nickname of 2018 Parkdean Masters champ, Craig Edmunds (7)

21 A day ticket lake at Messingham Sands – acorn producer! (3,4)

23 Stubby, like a chub’s head (5)

24 See 8ac. 27 e.g. oxygen in fish’s swim bladder (3)