Greenwood ???

[lcookie]

I have a buddy that wants to go fish Greenwood for shellcrackers. Is the fishery work the trip from metro ATL? We would bring the crappie gear as a back up but we want to target the crackers.

Thanks,

[S-Town Crappie King]

Greenwood is a good fishery, but for shellcrackers I would come in late spring/early summer. I would think the shellcracker bite would be tough right now. May can find a few bottom fishing but I would not think they would be around the edges.

[SeaRay]

I have run into several folks at Murray that are fishing exclusively for Shell Crackers in the past month. I have never fished for them in Murray or Greenwood, only Santee in the spring. Apparently the fall bite is good if you know where to look and how to catch them. I was told they caught them on night crawlers fishing rocky points.
That info is worth exactly what you paid for it, but all I've heard on the subject.

Here is a link to SC Sportsman article which might give you some insight. Lake Murray Shellcracker Fishing • Freshwater Fishing in Sand Hills Area • South Carolina Sportsman, SC

[lcookie]

Thanks for the article. The few people I know that target them around here use crawlers as well. Going to put this on my bucket list.

[Robdogg]

Rocky points, and areas "NEAR well placed brush plies" but not in the brush, will produce fish using hybrid pinks and night crawlers. Fishing is a lot slower as with any other species, but you can get some nice ones. As always when fishing in these places, be ready for a perch jerkin to happen.

[lcookie]

Yellow or White Perch? Also, what a hybrid pink?

[SeaRay]

I'm sure he meant White Perch even though we do have Yellow Perch as well. But for every Yellow Perch there are 10,000 White Perch. I think the hybrid pink is an off color night crawler like them weird looking green ones you can buy.

[Robdogg]

If I remember correctly the hybrid pinks are a cross between a night crawler and a red worm. They're not as big as night crawlers but have a lot of wiggle to em. I was talking about white perch.

[lcookie]

how do white perch taste?

[SeaRay]

how do white perch taste?

With their tongue! Sorry, could not resist.
Most folks find them excellent table fare. The first time we caught some small ones and fried them whole, we did not care for them. However, filleted and skinned, they are on a par with most any pan fish. I had a buddy here who did not think they were very tasty, so at one of our Wildlife Club outings I cooked White Perch, Crappie, and Bream. All filleted, skinned and fried. He could not pick out the perch from the others and admitted they tasted as good as any he had eaten.
The White Perch is closely related to the Striped Bass, not a perch at all, and I think the ones we fried whole had the same red stripe next to the skin as the Striper and contributed to the strong taste.