Stinger hooks with bait

Any of you bait guys use stinger hooks?  We had a bunch of run offs and chewed up bait this weekend using shiners and alwives lip hooked.  Wondering if putting a small treble stinger is the way to go.  And a couple of side questions along with that:
 
- does the stinger screw the bait up enough that you don't get as many hits?  not looking natural, etc
- if a cat (or even a walleye I guess) eats the bait are you ever unhooking them or do you pretty much have to cut the hook all the time?
 
We're mostly targeting channels, and they aren't exactly tackle shy so I don't think that'll be an issue.  But unhooking them has to be a bear.  
 
Thoughts?

I usually do when fishing the rivers, seems I get more short hits in the current. Got many eyes an cats in the river on 1 hook of the stinger treble. I do as needed in the lakes, if I get 2 short strikes or notice a trend I put em on

Usually a treble off a jig, lots of times a snap or slip on northland stinger. If using plain hooks I snell the lead hook an tie on the treble stinger with the excess, for live bait. I double snell single hooks for cutbait or strips

Snell a hook is as easy as this. Run line their hook, make a loop hold with left hand. Make 8 wraps send tag end back through loop DONE!

Small hooks and light line make snelling tricky. I normally just Snell my catfish hooks(5/0 and up with 40#+ leader). But can do the small ones easier now with practice.

I do the snell thing. I make up a few and put them on the worm harness holders attaching them to my line via a two way swivel, the one with no snap section ( SPRO power swivels). I do use heavier line to avoid fraying, crimping. I have to say that I cannot claim any real advantage. The other guys in the boat with me using a single hook have about the same success rate hooking and landing. I will say the smaller stinger only seems to serve as a way to give the dinks, gills, etc...something to get down their throats. I have, very recently as a result of the previous sentence, switched back to the single hook. The more substantial fish have not shown a tendency to nip the tails.