On a good day steelhead will smash a cigarette butt if you put it infront of there face. Guys will say real roe works best, but I've seen beads, flies, worms, power bait, yarn even lures work just as well if not better.
Saturday afternoon, I went to my favorite spot, one guy fishing the pool was packing up as I was arriving, he told me he got 2 on roe and 8 on a quickfish.
I started drifting where I normally hit them, it was slower then I was used to, so I went to faster shallow water and was doing very VERY well, when a couple came through the bush (scared the hell out of me) and asked me how I was doing.
They both had lures attached to there rods, the gentleman had a giant 3/4 ounce orange and gold Cleo on, he casted right where i was previously drifting, and almost instantly he was Hooked up.
He ended up taking 6 fish from my favorite drift where I had only got 3, and it tool me a while to get them.
I'm never leaving my lure hucking rod behind again.