For Sheepshead, I primarily use a hook called a "Sickle Hook". Super sharp and super strong but it and many other hooks have a flaw that fishermen that use leaders are not aware of. I do not use a leader when fishing for sheepshead and I use 40lb braid line. I have lost many big sheepshead due to this flaw. Being the brilliant thinker that I am, it probably took a dozen such losses....before I decided enough was enough. I discovered that when I went to retie another hook, there would be an empty loop on my line. Here is the reason.

My 'guess' is that when the hook was being made, they crimped the eye when it was hot. When it cooled, it opened up the gap you see. Maybe half of my hooks have a gap in the eye and for us braid/no leader fishermen, that is a gap for disaster. When you hook into a lunker and they turn for the bottom, the line slides around in the loop. If it slides towards the gap, goodbye hook. It WILL pull right through the gap on 40 lb braid line.
Here's what I have started doing.

Putting the muscle on the eye to close the gap.
Here's the end result..

I had thought about using epoxy to close the gap but with the coating they put on the hooks, I was afraid it would pop off under pressure. This way, steel is against steel.