For those of you who have no idea what a boilie is here are a couple of pictures showing how they are presented. The hook is well away from the actual bait, there is no reason why this method cannot be used with most salt water baits and the hook will invariably catch in the lips of mouth.

Those colored balls are a man made highly oiled, scented bait, they are not a float although they very much look like one. This helps when the lake bed is silty, the bait (and hook) are suspended just off the bottom.