Shellcrackers will change their attitude over the course of the year.Sometimes they are going to need a red worm or other live bait like that on the bottom. And they will have a little bit of a different attitude from one body of water to another so you have to tweak things a little sometimes to your conditions. But when they are bedding,and prespawn,and a few other times a year when they decide to get aggressive you can clean their clock with a variety of jigs. You just try to bump it into them. I have caught a lot with twister tail grubs,swimmin minnows,tube jigs. I have caught a lot on a 1/32 oz road runner head with a southern pro scale head tube though so don't overlook it. They eat mostly underwater snails and small mussels. So sometimes you're imitating food with a red worm ( sorta like a snail without the shell) or you're relying on the times when they get aggressive and will smack a jig.

They like crappie nibbles on the jigs....a lot.