Try using the Mustad 32786 BLN Jig Hook with a stainless screw lock and you wont have to use one of the wide gap hooks. This is due to the built in fulcrum or cam action of this model hook during the hookset.
With a conventional style of worm hook the width of the gap lies between the shank of the hook and the barb of the hook but with the 32786 Hook the width of the gap lies between the eye of the hook and the barb of the hook. Therefore with the 32786 Hook you have a much wider gap with a shorter shanked hook which allows for a body of the bait to flex closer towards the head as opposed to a longer shank hook which allows the bait to flex farther down towards the middle of the body.
Also you are not prone to hooking a fish as close to the gills with the 32786 Hook as with a longer shank fish hook.