I have been known to fish live bait a time or two I love lip hooking river shiners and drifting them through brush piles, I originally used just a regular 2/0 j hook but I have moved to octopus hooks set up with a Stinger ( tired of missing them pesky smallmouth) JK i have caught up with the times and use circles with live bait. Got ya good Smalliebigs : ) There are very few fish i don't eat but smallmouth are one of them, If i wanna eat fish I will kill some catfish or bluegill.