| FLATHEAD | Fine lad holding the angler's first fish (8) |
| GRANULES | Tiny pellets devious anglers first used inside (8) |
| LOACH | Fish, angler's first in northern lake (5) |
| OCCASION | Firm up about lad holding one social event (8) |
| SOMEBODY | Unidentified lad holding key for a person of consequence (8) |
| LABELLED | Identified lad holding beautiful girl (8) |
| WORKLOAD | Dispute set back OK lad wrongly assigned tasks (8) |
| MAYFLIES | Winged insects with brief lives, the angler's friends (8) |
| HOLDFAST | Landlady welcoming foreign lad holding tip of French stick |
| STURGEON | Operation so urgent doctor takes first fish (8) |
| STINGRAY | Staring wildly at your first fish (8) |
| TINGLING | Can get first fish, having goose pimples (8) |
| ROADSTER | The angler is holding a bicycle (8) |
| LAKESIDE | Crazy Americans missing first fish in place for angling? |
| COMPLEAT | "The --- Angler", 1653 work by Izaak Walton (8) |
| CREEPERS | What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) |
| CRESCENT | What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) |
| APPENDIX | What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) |
| DRMOREAU | What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) |
| BUILDING | What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) |
