Possible Clues:

• Goading or provoking
• Provoking
• Does the fish have to be so annoying?
• Teasing
• You have to have fish to be so annoying
• Perhaps behaving like a so-and-so, by the sound of it, is so provoking
• Miss Heather is getting on one's nerves
• Does one have to have the fish to so be being so annoying?
• Aggravating
• Taunts and such