Fun for your brain

(* indicates an anagram) Across

1 Colin ____ holds current (2019) barbel record at 21lb 2oz (*hint moss) (8)

6/13dn. Aid to seeing small bites; also windbreak – something to aim for (6,5) 9 Mackerel/tuna relative (*in boot) (6)

10 Co. Leitrim lough on Shannon/Erne waterway (*CIA raged) (8)

11/30 Angling with swan shot on mainline above hook (4,8)

12 Air beds/flotation devices (5) 13 Flat bread rolls: popular snack with bacon (4)

14 Light anchor for small boats upsets *angler ‘P’ (7) 17 Bronze-coloured, like skimmers (6) 18 Freshwater cod relative, with barbel on chin (6)

20 Sort of soft line for carp hooklengths etc. (7)

22 Small fish of salmon family – in loch, a rarity! (4) 23 Drilled, as a tiger nut may be (5)

25 Surge on water’s surface (4) 26 An eyeless hook (*needs pad) (5-3) 28 e.g. thin cane put into waggler (6) 29 ___ Eves, caught largest barbel of 2017/18 (*and air) (6) 30 See 11ac.

Down

2 Anchorage, berth (7) 3 Chunky, like lips of chub (5) 4 e.g. an arbor line-to-reel fastening (5,4)

5 ___ Bryans, caught three 16lb+ barbel in 2hrs on Nene in 2012 (5)

6 Brown pea-sized seed bait – altered *rates (5)

7 __ Hutchinson, fishing pioneer (died 2018) (3)

8 Slips the hook? (7)

13 See 6ac.

15 Distance from fly reel’s centre spindle to base of spool is the ___ (*or bra) (5)

16 A type of worm... cast! (3) 17 Small striped worm, good for bream and perch (9)

19 Form of a rod-rest’s top (*heads up) (1-6)

21 Salmon river in N.E. Scotland (*even rod) (7)

23 ___ Down, near Westonsuper-Mare (5)

24 __ Water: lake linked to Grasmere by the Rothay (*lardy) (5)

25 River of NW Germany ... in Felixstowe, seriously! (5)

27 __ Gribble, twice Drennan Cup winner, 2016/2018 (3)