fishlore

Noun

1. The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.
   • Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler. - 1886, The Academy, volume 29:
   • This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a...
2. The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.
   • I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain. -...