as pertaining to fisherman:
the first examples of the term
being used to describe other fisherman was
in the early 1930's in the diary's of
pissed off fisherman.
def. - A potlicker in fishing is a man who is too lazy to go find fish on his own, so he looks for someone who is already on fish and then he moves into that man's spot. He potlicks, he's a lazy bastard who depends on what others find or leave him.
We had just started putting some fish
in the boat when some damn potlicker sees us
catching fish. So he drives up and anchors just 20 yards off our bow and begins to cast towards
the spot we found.