I only target the brim in late spring and early summer and the artificial assortment I use is rather small. I like to take a beatle spin type spinner and attach a white 1/16 jig head and use a blue/white tube jig. With this I have caught Brim, crappie, bass(with some of those being big), catfish and a few grass carp. I use this on a little ultra lite berkley rod with a little trigger typs zebco reel and 6# test line. I know it was just dumb luck but two summers ago, my wife and I would fill the coolers everywhere we went with this combo. It was awesome. The latest bait that I have found that is loads of fun is the strike king bitsy minnow. This too catches all species around here. I use the same rod and reel combo and we have a blast with this little bait fishing at Tunica and Lakeview in North MS. These two locations grow some huge titty brim.