Possible Clues:

• Confusedly twisted
• Third of total fish within boundary caught
• *Bogged down
• Involved in complications
• In a mess, in a mess for ten to have gone fishing at last
• Fished with bad net to start with, it being snarled up
• Fished with hook and line after net broke and twisted
• Star, losing the lead, died, having complications
• Tend somehow to describe fish as caught
• Brooke's involved offering