Hi Mate,
Don't just fish a Hooklink material because you "want to" unless you are confident of its abilities first.
Before I use a Hooklink material "In Anger", it gets subjected to loads of tests. Abrasion Resistance, Sheer Resistance, Breaking Strain, how it knots and the best knot for it. All get bench and Tank Tested.
About the Only hooklink material I didn't test like this was Amnesia, but I have been using it for Sea Fishing for so long I was confident in it already.
The reason to avoid a Stiffer style rig in silt is that for a Stiff rig to work effectively it should be fairly short in my opinion