CROSSWORD & PUZZLES

Fun for your brain

Across

1 Metal pins, like those on monkey climbers (6)

5 Term for plump, unspawned salmon (*got bags!) (7) 9 Release... a granny? (4) 10 ____ Clarke, renowned fly fisherman/author (5) 11/17 Sleeve used with lead clip (*rabbit lure) (4,6)

12 Jan, legendary match angler (1980s), died 2016 (6) 13 Capacious hold-all (*get boat) (4,3)

14 Frog larva – and shape of Wels catfish! (7) 16 Country, hosted 2019 World Freshwater Angling Champs (6) 17 See 11ac.

19 Boot liners – producing *lesions! (7)

21 Prepares e.g. a bucktail or booby fly (7)

23 Blood fluid used as bait binder (*as lamp) (6) 25 e.g. short line joining swimfeeder to main line (4) 26 The choicest... bit of pickerel I tempted (5)

27 Caviare constituent (4) 28 Pike-like marine fish (*far – sigh) (7)

29 Location of Yorkshire’s Oaks Lakes (*essays) (6)

Down

2 Bean, used for carp bait – some terrapin took (5) 3 Secured a hook, say (7) 4 Not intoxicated (5)

5 Pole float’s sight tip (7) 6 Red nut-based pellet good for carp (5)

7 When salmon fishing season usually ends (7) 8 Sensitive rod-top bite indicators (5,4)

14 Slowly rolling hookbait downstream (9)

15 Sounds like an alternative... rowing aid (3) 16 International distress signal (3)

18 Wave hitting the shoreline (7) 19 Suffolk county town on the Orwell (7)

20 The lines/traces between reels and hooks (7)

22 Type of waggler, shorter than a truncheon (5) 23 Squeeze e.g. bait into banjo feeder (5)

24 Good hook for anti-eject rig (5)