Fish for a music-maker (9)
I believe the answer is:
trumpeter
'fish' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'a music-maker' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'music' could be 'te' and 'te' is found in the answer.
'a' could be 'per' (eg 'one a day' means 'one per day') and 'per' is found in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trumpeter that I've seen before include "Brass player" , "Jumbo?" , "kind of pigeon" , "One touting own skills perhaps" , "one of a band" .)