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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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Trout And Salmon Christmas Crossword

alvina | 20:44 Fri 01st Jan 2016 | Crosswords

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73a. Attempts by a trout to take a dry fly ??f???

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Trout And Salmon Christmas Crossword

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Mamyalynne

Strike: The attempt a fish makes to eat a fly, successfully or not. This term also refers to the movement of the rod a fly angler makes to set the hook.

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shoota

I'd never heard that ^ Mamy.

shoota

But that would mean that 'strike' was the answer to two clues...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1465619.html

fiction-factory

Were you sure of the F though, alvina?

Mamyalynne

There's possibly a more specific term - all I could find.

shoota

Maybe the setters aren't aware of formal crossword convention...

alvina

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I've got o?f?R? for73a. Looks like offers but I don't really understand it.

shoota

I was thinking of offers, I have heard the expression 'offer the fish a fly' but have never heard an attempt to take called an offer.
But with those letters.....

Heaton

offer

alvina

Question Author

Thanks everyone for the help. I'm hoping it's offers x

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