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Where travellers pay to go and fish (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

turnpike

'where travellers pay' is the definition.
(a toll gate where travellers must pay a toll)

'go and fish' is the wordplay.
'go' becomes 'turn' (synonyms).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'fish' becomes 'pike' (pike is a kind of fish).
'turn'+'pike'='TURNPIKE'

'to' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for turnpike that I've seen before include "Old barrier" , "Toll gate/road" , "Old gates across a road to prevent passage until a toll was paid" , "way in the US" , "Toll road (hist.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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