Bow of canoe bizarrely filled with live fish innards (9)
I believe the answer is:
obeisance
'bow' is the definition.
('obeisance' can be a synonym of 'bow')
'canoe bizarrely filled with live fish innards' is the wordplay.
'bizarrely' indicates anagramming the letters.
'filled with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'live' becomes 'be' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live'**).
'innards' says to take the centre.
The middle of 'fish' is 'is'.
'canoe' anagrammed gives 'oance'.
'be'+'is'='beis'
'oance' placed around 'beis' is 'OBEISANCE'.
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for obeisance that I've seen before include "show deference" , "Respectful gesture" , "great respect" , "Deferential respect" , "showing deference" .)