When doing any kind of bait fishing you are going to gut hook most fish,usually killing them. Or cutting the line close to there mouth and hope for the best. But if your going to bait fish anyhow and you don't like bobbers, put a sliding weight on your line then a bead so weight doesn't chew up your knot then a swivel. Tie a short line to other end of the swivel and some kinda floating bait on to a very light tiny hook like those Gulp floating eggs in Chartruse or blow up a bit of worm so it floats with a hypo needle.
Or you can just hang a weight on the end of your line and about a 8 inches up make a loop putting it through several times so it doesn't slip then cut one end of loop close to main line tie a hook on that end of cut loop and Bob's your uncle.
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