The clues...

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ACROSS

7 Lower body exercises and almost small maggots ( 6) 9 Hadrian ___, all- round angler, master bleak- bagger! ( 7)

11 Final stage of an insect ( anag. of ‘ go aim’) ( 5)

12 A bottom- fished rig with swan shot above hook ( 4,5) 13 Notts. six- lake fishery/ caravan park ( anag. of ‘ larch loft’) ( 9)

15 A __ tide has least rise and fall ( anag. of ‘ pane’) ( 4)

17 A river in Sussex as well as South Yorkshire ( 6)

19 Join with a loop of thread – in contest, Itchen! ( 6)

22 e. g. move water around ( 4) 23 River and town between Southampton and Bournemouth ( 9)

26 City of North- west England on the Lune ( 9) 27 Slow- moving food of many fish ( anag. of ‘ slain’) ( 5)

28 e. g. crimp with pliers ( 7) 29 Units of weight ( anag. of ‘ UNESCO’) ( 6)

DOWN

1 A short violent storm ( 6) 2 Irish county – and type of salad cream ( abbrev.) ( 4) 3 West Yorkshire reservoir for fly/ coarse fishing ( 7) 4 Lake District reservoir near Kendal ( anag. of ‘ knot in gill’) ( 10)

5 Descriptive of still, possibly foul, water ( 8)

6 Service that might get you from one side of the river to the other ( 5)

8 Large fish that ascends river to spawn ( 6)

10 Venue, usually commercial, devoted to angling ( 7)

14 What you’d expect to find in a chalk stream ( anag. of ‘ trawler ace’) ( 5,5) 16 Composition of e. g. Chesil beach ( 7)

18 Lightweight, but expensive, material for e. g. a wire trace ( anag. of ‘ Aunt, I’m it!’) ( 8)

20 Such a feeder won’t roll about on the bottom ( 4- 3) 21 Early life stage of e. g. fish ( 6)

24 Two if its tributaries are Kennet and Cherwell ( 6) 25 ___ eels, or ‘ pre- elvers’ ( 5) 27 Fall to the bed of river/ lake ( 4)