Your right, but on average the bream is a more agressive fish than shellcracker. I've also caught bream on a little of everything as well as shellcracker, but for numbers and size this is my two rules. I'm "speaking of beating the bank" in warm water. I can fish worms all day and not catch a fish, while the man in the back fishes with crickets and slays the bream. But when I hit the "crackers" I load the boat from one hole and they won't hit crickets with any consistancy at all. Scuds are great just hard to get. Worms and crickets are a dime a dozen. If I'm fishing deep for panfish I don't use crickets. I usually use worms of any kind mainly crawlers. For shallower water fishing I use georgia jumpers, bream like those. I use red worms for shellcrackers when tossing a bream buster. Someone posted that they had caught a 30lb carp on a minnow. Anything can happen, but you don't target carp with minnows.