Related Clues:

• School member
• Fail big-time
• Ocean inhabitant
• Angle (and a three-word hint to this puzzle's theme)
• Minnow, e.g.
• What one might do for compliments
• Try for flounder
• Sherman, for one
• Perch, for one
• Make no effort to win, in slang
• Fail, as a flick
• Worm lovers
• Perform poorly
• Kids card game
• Angler's catch