I did a few guided trips last year on the White River below Bull Shoals Dam. One of the guides would catch live sculpins, kill them, skin them and use them for bait when fishing for Brown Trout while the dam was releasing. It was always in high water and he would be anchored in place. It was very effective. He said the Brown Trout will gorge on the sculpins. The sculpin skins would dissolve in the Brown Trout’s stomach and then be barfed up as a white skinless dead sculpin. Other Brown Trout would then eat them. He said the sculpins have to be dead or they will swim under a rock and hide. Here is a picture of a dead sculpin rigged up.