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Fish after parking and dad's picked up tackle (8)

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I believe the answer is:

approach

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'up tackle' is the definition.
'approach' can be an answer for 'tackle' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'up' bit.

'fish after parking and dad's picked' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'roach' (roach is a type of fish).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'parking' becomes 'p' (abbreviation on road signs).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'dad's picked' becomes 'ap' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'roach' after 'p' is 'proach'.
'proach' after 'ap' is 'APPROACH'.

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(Other definitions for approach that I've seen before include "Come towards" , "Come closer" , "Border on" , "What happens before landing" , "Get closer to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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