Farm Girl, been using regular shrimp for steelhead for years. I prefer the un-cooked ones. Here's how I rig them. Shell them and then chop a bunch up, as many as it will take to make the number of bait's you'll need. This takes a little experimentation, but you'll soon get it down. Then take some egg sack netting and tying thread, place as much chopped shrimp as needed in a square of netting, gather the edges, twist and tie it off. What you'll have are "shrimp balls". Make them small or large as needed. Thread one onto your leader above the hook, put some yarn in the hooks egg loop and you got one of the longest lasting and best shrimp baits ever. I've caught a bunch of steelies on'em. I store then in old plastic 35mm film cans, in the freezer and they are ready to go when ever I need them. you can also re-freeze them if you don't use all you take. I even add those little styrofoam beads in the mesh sack to make them float above bottom right in the zone! No mess, no fuss and they really work.