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Across

1/26 You might pinch this line weight! (4,4)

4/17dn. It tangles less than paternoster set-up (*lighter copier) (10,3) 9 Severnside town between Shrewsbury and Worcester (*we led by) (7)

10 Sleeves for joining e.g. wires/nylon lines (6) 11 e.g. a multiplier (4)

13 Bill ___, sadly posted his final popular ‘Easy Fishing’ video in March (5) 14 Newcastle’s river (4) 15 Eyed, anti-kinking legering device (6)

17 Put back e.g. caught fish into water (8)

19 Pack smelly fishing gear in this (5,3)

21 Put a shine on spoons, say (6) 22 Centrepin’s line holder (4) 24 Musical drama (*a rope) (5) 26 See 1ac.

28 Fly pupa used as bait (6) 29 Fish’s ___ line picks up vibrations in water (7)

31 Like a battery-operated bite alarm (*centre coil) (10) 32 County location (abbrev.) of

Ampthill reservoir (4)

Down

2 Wiltshire brown trout chalk stream – bit of juvenile b-bleak (5)

3 Early morning moisture on grass (3) 4 e.g. quiver carry-bag for rods (7)

5 Faithful, true (5)

6 Palm tree fruit’s ‘white meat’ loved by carp (7) 7 Purpose of a hook’s sharp end? (5)

8 Soft, buoyant, slow to sink, pellets (9)

12 Largest Loch of lowland Scotland – in possible venue (5)

16 A ‘cataract’ or ‘force’ (9) 17 See 4ac. 18 Regulations, codes of conduct (5)

20 A smoke-dried herring (*or table) (7)

21 Hair stops are made of this (7) 23 A lake at Devon’s Anglers Paradise – sorcery! (5) 25 A trout/salmon river in Cumbria – a bit excellent! (5) 27 Applied grease (5)

30 First name of anglers Wootton and Maylin (3)