i have family that does real well using prawns or baby cray fish from the creeks for steelhead i have also used crayfish on the skok found a big one put him on the hook casted out and nothing as i was reeling in a jack come swimming out of nowere and chopped the crayfish right off the hook a foot off the bank so crayfish should work very well as that is what they feed on when smolts before going into the big blue