Possible Clues:

• 'To sleep: -------- to dream:' Hamlet
• As it may happen
• Pole with another in service, possibly
• Diva rubbish? Could be -- had Spooner been a Scouser!
• Fish expert catches indefinite number possibly
• Possibly, poetically
• Rod cracking when pierced by point, maybe
• Type of fish — brill — served around noon, maybe
• Topless, move rhythmically on pole, maybe
• Fish with bent cane perhaps