Why this word is great
FISHLORE — [Noun] The accumulated knowledge, traditions, and stories concerning fish and fishing, an amalgam of practical wisdom, ecological observation, and cultural myth. From the English words fish (aquatic vertebrate animal) + lore (body of knowledge or tradition). Unlike ichthyology, which denotes a formal, taxonomic science, or angling, which specifies the technical craft of the hook and line, fishlore is the great, murky reservoir where empirical data, practical trickery, and outright tall tales intermingle. It is the old-timer’s secret about the evening hatch, the local name for a trout pool known only to a handful, and the almanac’s claim that catfish bite best before a thunderstorm—a vernacular wisdom that proves as true, and as haunting, as any data set.