For me nothing beats a summer run crushing a surface fly - so my choices include:

1) Haig-Brown's steelhead bee - fished waking
2) Grey Wulff - fished waking or drag free
3) Lady Caroline - fished grease lined

For a sub-surface fly on a sink tip -
4) Winter sculpin - an own recipe

For the bait rod -
5) Fresh crawdad - always a great bait and even better change up to more standard offerings (eggs, jigs, etc). However be warned that the fish eat it big time.

Tight lines
S malma