I use circle hooks for chunking and sometimes for eels as well. I have found that a 2/0 or 3/0 circle hook can be good for drifting an unweighted sandworm during the worm hatch as well as at night around docks.
Nose hooking a soft plastic jerkbait and fishing it weightless can be good in early spring and fall when the bass are feeding on top but won't take a
popper ro jerkbait fished fast, and the circle hook makes it easier to avoid gut hooking the bass when they take the jerkbait on the fall.