I don't catch too many shellcrackers or target them specifically. Our state record was caught just a couple of counties west of here and it is just two ounces shy of five pounds. Now that's a shellcracker. I occasionally catch one on a beetle spin but I probably catch two hundred bluegill for every shellcracker I catch. I don't keep any panfish I catch unless they come out of my uncle's ponds. He makes me keep them but I give them away.