I don't have any decent bait for steelhead or nooks, unless you can count powereggs. It's either really really mushy, maybe rotten, eggs, powereggs, powerbait, worms (I forgot about these!), grocery store shrimp (maybe I can do a little salt/sugar cure), pautskes balls o fire (would those work for nookers/steelhead?). Otherwise, I prefer clean n easy hardware.