Fishing Etiquette

[snag]

If you are a Steelheader or not... you should know what I call "THE ROUTINE".

 

If guys are crowded up in a pool and they are 5' or so away from eachother it wouldn't be a bad situation at all. You just simply cast in order from the guy at the bottom of the run to the one who is at the top. I remember fishing in a crowded area with 7 experienced steelheaders along the rock wall at the icebreakers (guess the river) and none of us got into a tangle for 2 straight hours of fishing. I noticed that those who don't know 'the routine' and come into a crowd really screw up drifting time until they leave.

 

Have respect for others. I normally go up to someone kindly and I ask if I could join them in fishing a pool or a run. When they do say yes we usually get caught up in a conversation and we just drift casually.

 

Show some respect on the riverbank and you'll earn your spot on a drift.

 

Word.

 

Sounds good to me.

[luv2drift]

Hey fishtat2 How could internet posts affect fishing spots when you don't reply..............?????????????? hahahahahahahahaha

[Kirk]

Actually PF, its FLOGGING a dead horse. I wondered where the phrase beating a dead horse originated from...I should have known as I still have a Sex Pistols album in the basement

 

Beating a dead horse

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Look up beat a dead horse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Beating a dead horse is an idiom which means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed, mooted, or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile. In British English, the phrase is usually rendered as flogging a dead horse.

 

The first recorded use of the expression with its modern meaning is by British politician and orator John Bright, referring to the Reform Bill of 1867, which called for more democratic representation in Parliament, and which Parliament was singularly apathetic about. Trying to rouse Parliament from its apathy on the issue, he said in a speech, would be like trying to flog a dead horse to make it pull a load. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the Globe, 1872, as the earliest verifiable use of flogging a dead horse ,

 

For..twenty minutes..the Premier..might be said to have rehearsed that..lively operation known as flogging a dead horse. [1]

 

 

[edit] Earlier meaning

There are claims that the phrase originates in 17th century slang, where a "dead horse" was work that was paid for in advance, e.g. "His land 'twas sold to pay his debts; All went that way, for a dead horse, as one would say."[2]. Unfortunately, the Smythe quotation is a red herring. He was simply referring to what was already known as the "dead horse month", or the month of no pay, and how difficult it was to get work out of the men during the dead horse month.[citation needed] This attribution confuses "flogging a dead horse" with an entirely different phrase - "to work (for) the dead horse". This phrase was slang for "work charged before it is executed". This use of 'dead horse' to refer to pay that was issued before the work was done was simply an allusion to using one's money to buy a useless thing (metaphorically, " a dead horse"). Most men paid in advance apparently either wasted the money on drink or other such vices or used it to pay debts.

 

Historically, it was common practice to pay a ship's crewmen in advance for their first month's work, which they would usually have spent prior to even boarding the ship on which they were to work. For the first month on board, therefore, they felt as though they were working for nothing, and so they were not terribly motivated. After approximately one month, ships out of the British Isles reached the Horse Latitudes. The problem here is that there is no mention by Smythe of the Horse Latitudes or any explanation of why he supposedly used the phrase "flogging a dead horse".

 

 

 

 

 

[edit] References

^ 1872 Globe 1 Aug. 3/1

^ Nicker Nicked in Harl. Misc. (Park) II. 110 (1668)

 

[edit] External links

- Oxford English Dictionary - see quotations for 'horse, n., 19. dead horse

"Sensational Etymologies" - TakeOurWord.com

"Beating A Dead Horse" - GoEnglish.com

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