I have searched every lake in my area for shellcrackers of the quality and have never found one! Good catch. Feel free to pm me the lake info if you have a mind too.

My embarrassing fish story comes from a summer night when I was in high school. me and a few friends loaded up and headed down to the river bottoms for some late night catfishing on the bank of the arkansas river. we got there late and didn't think to bring a lantern so we just built us a fire and and comminced to fishing and drinking. we didn't catch nothing the whole night, not even a nibble. when the sun rose the next morning we could see that about 30 yds in front of the bank we were fishing from was a sandbar. Our baits had been on dry ground the whole night and were only getting wet when we reeled them across the small pool between us and the water.