Historical clue formulations

• Fishing pole — 2026-09-01
• Staff — 2026-06-19
• Fishing tool — 2026-06-16
• Angler's stick — 2026-06-03
• Axle, e.g. — 2026-02-23
• 5.5 yards — 2026-01-15
• Angling tool — 2025-11-15
• Word after hot or lightning — 2025-09-01
• Partner of a cone, or of a reel — 2025-07-14
• Cone's partner — 2025-07-06
• Staff — 2025-01-28
• Surveyor's measure — 2025-01-08
• Unit equivalent to 16.5 feet — 2024-09-05
• Curtain hanger's need — 2024-06-25
• Good name for a nuclear engineer? — 2024-06-23
• Staff — 2024-05-25
• Word with tie or fly — 2024-02-09
• Reel attachment — 2023-11-15
• Bone insert following an accident — 2023-11-05
• Foosball apparatus — 2023-10-18
• Apt name for an angler — 2023-06-28
• Curtain hanger — 2023-01-30
• Word with tie or fly — 2023-01-20
• Shaft — 2022-06-17
• Word with hot or fly — 2022-04-23
• Word after hot or lightning — 2022-03-15
• Authority, metaphorically — 2021-11-07
• What something bacillary is shaped like — 2021-11-05
• Support for a shower curtain — 2021-11-01
• Staff — 2021-07-10
• Bacillus shape — 2021-05-26
• Word with fishing or lightning — 2021-05-25
• Retinal receptor — 2020-11-08
• Towel holder — 2020-08-31
• Bit of lakeside equipment — 2020-07-25
• Stepped — 2020-01-09
• Cone's retinal counterpart — 2019-12-23
• Bathroom towel support — 2019-10-07
• Selfie stick, e.g. — 2019-03-29
• Item of fishing gear — 2019-02-18
• Hot ___ — 2018-09-02
• Stick connected to a reel — 2018-08-14
• Word with curtain or hot — 2018-06-26
• Casting need — 2018-05-20
• It may hold the line — 2018-03-11
• Dowel, e.g. — 2017-12-15
• Staff — 2017-10-08
• Clothes closet fixture — 2017-09-01
• Angling tool — 2017-08-25
• Metaphor for punishment — 2016-12-25