I usually use some type of plastic lure on the head, or "Red Fish Magic "(Commercial Sales - small gold spinner with a plastic lure.) Johnson also used the gold weedless spoon. Pharyngeal works too ,it is close to the bait, because I have (so far). Friends are very successful, mud minnows, shrimp, cut bait. clousers, liar bait fish relations, epoxy gold spoons, shrimp, crab counterfeit work rod.