PUZZLE CORNER

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Across

1 Direction in which most chub bolt when returned to water (8)

6 Northants reservoir, covering an area of 93 acres when full (6)

9 Keeled over like a stranded boat (6)

10 Areas like Norfolk’s Breydon Water (8)

11 Silvery fish also called the launce (4,3)

12/21/27 Also called straplead or dead cow (6,6,6)

13 e.g. a fish’s slimy secretion (5)

15 Waggler float that enters water noisily (8)

16 They’re used in e.g. chod and blowback rigs (3,5)

19/2 Biggest wild angling match in Ireland (5,5)

21 See 12ac.

22 Raindrop-shaped spinner blade (*Ian and I) (7)

25 It provides a firm fixing for e.g. a big pit (4,4)

27 See 12ac.

28 A series of canal locks (6)

29 Machines for clearing silt from canals etc. (8)

Down

2 See 19ac.

3 Ship that famously sank on its maiden voyage 1912 (7)

4 ___ Turner, legendary piker/ drifter float inventor (5)

5 Mutters: “It’s a S. Wales headland”! (7)

6 Buoyant rig with round jighead – partly bone-dry (3)

7 e.g. separates braid/wire of lead core (7)

8 Where, on a line, driftbeater is attached (6-3)

12 Permit – in Galloway (5)

13 Ground cereal for bulking-out bait/storing maggots (5,4)

14 Underwater detection device (5) 17‘ Dangerous to bathe’ sign on beach (3,4)

18 Describes a lure with feathery-like trailer (7)

20 Town where Thames and Kennet meet (*a Ned rig) (7)

23 Search for water – in a divine way? (5)

24 Detest...bit of squab – horrid! (5) 26 A newt is a bit hefty (3)