[Gerry Zagorski]

One other thing to consider is the placement of the sinker, if you plan to use one. When we're live lining we like to mix it up. Some guys will fish with weight and others won't so were fishing some up top and others deeper.

What we typically do is tie a barrel swivel in around 3 or 4 feet up from the hook leader. Above the other side of the barrel we thread on a sinker slide with a clip... We use the slider/sinker clip so we can attach a weight if we'd like or fish without one.. If you use an egg sinker this is not an option since you can't remove the weight unless you re tie... You can however use a 3 way with a sinker clip instead of the slide.

The reason that we tie the barrel in at around 3 to 4 feet is because anything more then that, it makes it really hard to cast since you can't reel the barrel and sinker slide through your pole tip and anything longer then 3 to 4 feet between your pole tip and your bunker makes it difficult to cast...

An added benefit of this set up is we can also use it to chunk and no need to re tie.... If you get into a hot bite on livies and you look into the live well and all you have is some dead floaters, throw a dead one on with weight and fish it until you can get more live ones..