Improve Your Coarse Fishing (UK)
The clues....
ACROSS
1 Wirral resort on the Dee estuary ( anag. of ‘ Ah! Yokel’) ( 7)
5 Derbyshire town on the Derwent, in SE part of Peak District ( 7)
10 Irish river, longest in the British Isles ( 7)
11 Angling guru, Adam ___ ( anag. of ‘ roe, yon’) ( 6)
12 The __, a North Sea inlet on England’s east coast ( 4)
13 Sea- going rainbow trout ( anag. of ‘ heated less’) ( 10)
14 Insubstantial, rickety ( anag. of ‘ Fly Sim’) ( 6)
16 Flavour ( 5)
19 ‘ Tench’ in Latin ( anag. of ‘ antic’) ( 5)
20 Shropshire town on the Teme, upstream of Tenbury Wells ( 6)
22 Useful aid when an anger is quite in the dark! ( 5,5)
24 Loop- to- loop knot might be used to tie hooklength to __ line ( 4)
25 It can secure boat in e. g. middle of lake ( 6)
26 Wears out e. g. a hooked fish ( 8)
27 A swivel can help prevent a line from becoming ____ ( 7)
28 Famous Hampshire river that sounds irritatin’! ( 6)
DOWN
2 Hindrance that might snag hook/ line ( 8)
3 Stone ___, a tiny fish with barbels ( 5)
4 Norfolk town at mouth of Great Ouse ( 5,4)
6 The month when fishing rod licences start ( 5)
7 Bait sample distributed e. g. by catapult ( 9)
8 Small Devon river giving its name to Crediton ( anag. of ‘ cry: Dee!’) ( 6)
9 Float that’s more sensitive than the ‘ straight’ version ( anag. of ‘ west angler rig’) ( 6,7)
15 Maver’s big money competition ( 5,4)
17 Small slotted weights for float fishing ( 5,4)
18 Cumbrian Lake associated, tragically, with Donald Campbell ( 8)
21 Tiny, nuisance fish? ( 6)
23 County Antrim seaport and town ( anag. of ‘ learn’) ( 5)
24 A chub has a large one ( 5)