Bluegill and shellcracker are biting worms and grass shrimp in the lily pads. Bass fishing has been great, with a couple of tournaments yielding some nice catches.

Another answer to, “what do bluegill eat,” are freshwater mussels—particularly for larger fish with bigger mouths that can hold and crush them to get at the succulent meat inside.

Bluegill Fishing 101: A Beginner's Guide In terms of availability, access, and a willingness to bite, it's hard to beat a bluegill. The species Lepomis macrochirus is widespread across the entire ...

Freshwater fishing: Bass might've slowed down a little, but bluegill are on fire in Polk Raymond Beasock Ledger correspondent 0:00 ...

Specks might be slowing down, but bass, bluegill and shellcracker are biting like mad across Polk County.

They introduced four different species of fish (bluegill, rock bass, yellow perch and banded killifish), one at a time, into a test tank with four increasingly complex "treatment panels" to see ...

While not many big bass are being caught, the quantity remains high in many places. Many anglers are pulling 3- to 4-pounders out of area lakes.