The new Gulp sandshrimp have been working well up North here, guys smatter them with sandshrimp gel and you pretty much have a indestructible artificial bait that smells right, looks right and gets it done.


http://www.berkley-fishing.com/products/soft-bait/gulp-alive/ghost-shrimp-assortment

As good as the real deal?, probably not, but in all honesty sand shrimp is a bit of a crutch like chunk roe. You spend more time aquiring bait, changing bait and worrying about not having bait. All that time could be spent learning to read water, covering water and flat out time in the water, which with Steelhead is huge.