Everyone has good advise, I'll put my two cents in too.
Last year I used 4/0 and 5/0 wide gap hooks (Eagle Claw and Gamakatsu) on everything, and caught a mess of fish. The beginning of this year I started to miss a mess of fish. What I gathered from this experience is the major decision on whether we catch a fish with a certain hook or not is totally dependable on the fish. This year I noticed that the fish bit the bait totally different, barely opening their mouths. If you are using a large wide gap hook, and the fish is nibbling the bait into his mouth, this will turn the hook sideways before fully entering the mouth, once the fish clamps those jaws shut and you set the hook, you think you got him, but the hook is only half in, you then either pull the bait out or he opens his mouth after a few seconds. Your bait will look undisturbed for the most part. And make you wonder. Danny is right though not to use too small of hooks. I was using a 1/0 wide gap hook with a little craw (texas rigged) believing that the "bite" would be short that day, I got a bite, set the hook, then after 4 or 5 seconds of serious rod bending, the bait flew free undamaged. I examined the weight I was using to find many shiny lines on it telling me the fish had the bait, weight and all in his mouth. I lost either way. I have settled for a 2 or 3/0 hook size for everything mostly and have increased my catch rate. What I do is after getting bit, I drop the rod and wait for the line to move about a foot, then set the hook. Of course you may not be able to do this when pitching close to brush, but these bites are generally never felt anyway, your line will either suddenly move off or you will go to gently lift the rod and it will gently "pull back", boy I love that.
In other words, sharpening your hooks is important, but before you buy tons of sharpening tools and spend 39 hours sharpening, try a smaller hook, if you have to go real small, peg your weight about 3 inches above your bait. The worst soft plastic I believe for hook penetration is the tube, I usually texpose these and skin hook it, last year I didn't have to do this with a tube but this year I have, and have seen other people missing fish with nonexposed hooks on a tube as well. Just goes to tell us that the fish behave differently all the time, which is good for us, keeps us from becoming perfect which would be very boring.
Take Care
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