| URE | Yorkshire river with good trout and grayling (3) |
| IRTHING | Cumbrian river for trout and grayling (*right in) (7) |
| NIDD | Yorkshire river with good hatch of mayfly - in season I'd dry-fly (4) |
| DON | Aberdeenshire river noted for its good trout stocks (3) |
| EAR | Fur from a hare's makes a good trout fly (3) |
| DEE | North Wales river noted for holding large grayling (3) |
| RAY | Cherwell tributary good for silverfish - some grayling? (3) |
| MVP | 2014 award for Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw: Abbr. |
| CFS | Mike Trout and Mickey Mantle, by pos. |
| LISTERIA | Inclination to reverse Yorkshire river with bacterial infection (8) |
| AIRER | Yorkshire river with last of water, drier (5) |
| AIREDALE | Dog in Yorkshire river with tangled lead (8) |
| GOATSTOE | This classic Irish wet-fly will catch trout, sea-trout and salmon. It has a red wool tail, peacock herl body and long-hackle peacock neck feather (5,3) |
| FLYROD | It's mostly used to catch trout, grayling etc (3,3) |
| TOTHERESCUE | Trout and cheese recipe is going to help (2,3,6) |
| TICKLING | Dealing with trout and cod after a short time (8) |
| ROULETTE | Might a trout and eel go round and round like this? (8) |
| MATZOTH | Bread with ham, uneven pickings of trout and some zucchini toasted (7) |
| EARN | Perthshire river for salmon, trout, grayling (*near) (4) |
| WETFLY | Beneath-the-surface lure for grayling etc. (3,3) |
