Bait question?

[seriola_killer]

Carrying sizes 3/0 - 8/0 should do the trick for ya, but size up even bigger with circle hooks. Btw, if you get some of those 14+" salamis, don't be afraid to use 'em. They look huge but big YT's and Ghosts have zero problem ingesting them.

Got a 48# yt in mulege on a salami that had to have been pushing 18" in length.

Getting back to hooks, I was fortunate to learn from an old guy years ago in La Paz fishing for monster roosterfish with 7-10# ladyfish as bait, literally a 2 foot long bait.

Roosters are notorious for taking off with a bait and spitting the hook. What he did was sort of like a modified bridle. It consisted of a small (2/0) bait hook that was tied to the bend of a much larger hook. Hook the nose of the bait on the small hook and the large hook will be literally just in front of it's nose. Works like a charm when dealing with huge baits (or any baits for that matter). You're hookup ratio may very well increase.