Lidl garlic sausage

[Jim Brook]

You can also add weight to a larger hook and negate the need for any ledger weights sometimes just adding a swan shot or two up the line, but most importantly do not strike prematurely when using large meat baits as foul hooking can arise, I’ve hooked a small fish in the nose once when I started out fishing like this, I find the bites are slow pull rounds on the whole rod

 

[Derek Funcks]

So you wrap the lead wire around the hook shank, and cover with shrink tube ?

 

[Jim Brook]

So you wrap the lead wire around the hook shank, and cover with shrink tube ?

Oops , thought I’d put in some text? But yes lead wire, then shrink tube to keep it in place. It’s good for trundling/rolling or with a large bait can be sufficient weight to hold bottom with one or two swan shot Or small bomb to act as more of a back lead being lighter than the bait itself

 

[Terry Simner]

What would be the hook choice with a huge chunk like this? Would a size 2 Super Specialist be ok?

I use #2 or #4 Gripz .... really sharp, stay sharp, much easier to remove from a barbel ... but I've not lost a single barbel/fish using these.