The reason I am so fussy is that most of my big bonus fish on Chesil take a smaller fish that has got hooked on a 6/0 pennel. So the hooks have to be sticky sharp. My big
cod over the years have nearly all come this way over Christmas.
Over the years I have had big bull huss, rays, bass,
cod and tope take small fish that were hooked up.
Last weekend I dropped a very decent fish I know it did not hit the worm bait on the 6/0 pennel it had been out there 25 mins and the baits were getting stripped in minutes.
Its one of those things I guess but you can definitely plan for this scenario but the hooks have to be sharp enough to foul hook rubbish fish. I have had 4 small pout on a 6/0 pennel all foul hooked in the past.....