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Early fishermen probably were bait slingers and sandworms were the bait of choice.They had no superbraids or juiced up conventionals, probably just hand lines which they fished in the shallows.And I bet they caught a bunch of eels and thought they were great table fare, clearly they were twisted, they used lobster for bait and fertilizer. So Joe early american settler is sitting back on his rock enjoying a cold one and his hand line goes tap, tap, ah another eel or one of those tasty searobins and he starts winding it up when BAM, the line stretches out and tears into his hands, Joe nearly looses it, but manages to hang on, the blood pouring out of his hands makes the crude hemp line a slippery mess, he's screaming in pain, but manages to land the beast, a huge striper - and get this - it was an eel that took his worm, BUT THE STRIPER TOOK THE EEL!
And thus, livelining eels was born.
And not only that, but nearby a group of settlers were building a still - Al Penn, John Mitchell, Igor VanStall, and Abu Garcia - needless to say, this experience wasn't wasted on them.
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