Quote Originally Posted by poppop View Post
I always though a shellcracker was just a big bream...
And you know what ... the USA doesn't even have "Bream" swimming in its waters
A true "Bream" is a freshwater fish that's found in Europe !!

We tend to lump alot of sunfish species into the catagory of "Bream" ... but, there's a bunch of different ones.

Here's a look at some of the fish you can encounter, in my state ... KY.

(warning - it's a 2.77MB PDF file, and may take awhile to load ... esp on a dial-up system)

http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/kyfishid.pdf?li...47C301C547C138

... cp