Bluegill and shellcracker have been biting on red worms and crickets around Gator Cove, reports Bridgemaster Fishing Products (863-676-1009). 8.

3 At Winter Haven, the canals around the chain are producing some shellcracker and bluegill and the canal mouths are holding bass feeding on the panfish. Lake Winterset is producing good numbers ...

Bluegill and shellcracker are biting red worms on the bottom at 10 to 12 foot. Lake Reedy is producing bass early at the south shore on topwaters along the grass and frogs in the grass.

Bluegill — Good numbers of both bluegill and shellcracker are biting, but bluegill get the nod just slightly over the “red ears” this week. Strike Zone, 1, 2, 3 ...

Crickets, grass shrimp or red worms are the bait of choice for this panfish that has seen a strong bite across many Polk lakes.

3 At Winter Haven, bank fishing the canals is good for bluegill and shellcracker. The mouths of the canals are good for bass as they're feeding on the panfish, reports Schelfo. Lakes Spring and ...

That's why Saturday the lake community is hosting the General Sumter Panfish Challenge, a one-day tournament that showcases Panasoffkee's stellar bluegill and shellcracker fishing.

While even the biggest bluegill will aggressively engulf a bait on most days, shellcracker slam an offering one day and gingerly lip it the next.

Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biologists suggest stocking ponds with 750 bluegill per acre and 250 shellcracker per acre. At first, things are great for shellcracker.

The only good thing about the speckled perch spawning season dying down is the bluegill and shellcracker season kicking in. That's where we're at. There was a 12.5 inch shellcracker caught off the ...

Rather than speckled perch, the little shrimp were taken by bluegill and shellcracker — and not the scrawny specimens often seen so late in the year. Seven of the bream were eye-popping examples ...

This, though, has been a strong year for area fishing in general; and bluegill and shellcracker seekers willing to suffer through awfully-hot late summer days say that their target species remains ...