Nandy, I will probably disappoint you in my choice of bait. I used to fish small mountain creeks quite a bit when I lived in Utah. I found down there that a single or double salmon egg was usually the most effective bait. I haven't used salmon eggs since I moved to Montana 21 years ago. Anyway I thought they might work last night and gave them a whirl. They were absolutely dynamite! I started off using a little gold salmon egg hook and kept missing or losing fish. So I reached into my fly tying stash and switched to some tiny scud hooks. After the switch I hardly lost a fish. It reminded me that those stupid little gold salmon hooks are pert near useless. If I head back up to that creek any time soon I'm thinking about taking my fly rod and trying either a small Adams or small egg patten. I'm pretty sure either would work. Might even toss a red San Juan worm at them and see what happens.