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The reason I say that repeatedly lip hooking bass "may" indicate that you have to change you hook set technique is because other things besides the wait to set can cause repeated lip hooks rather than a deep hook. One thing is too small a hook. Another is hooking the eel wrong with a properly sized hook.
To answere the last question , will the hook rot out? The answere is yes but if its stainless , it will take a long time. A regular steel hook will rot out very fast , perhaps less than a day do to the very corrosive nature of fishes stomach juices. Its a reglar thing for catch and release fisherman to cut the line and let the fish swim away with the hook still in them. Its far more likely the bass will survive until the hook rots out than it is if you go digging into its guts or pull its belly out by yanking hard. You should always eel with plain steel hooks not stainless (my opinion of course). There are two reasons. The first is that a plain steel hook will hold a better edge than a Stainless hook so you can sharpen it better. The second is that since many fish do get deep hooked eeling , the plain steel hook will rot out quickly if its too deep to retrieve.
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