A few years ago there I read a peice in the Georgia Outdoor News about how to locate Shellcrackers when they were bedding and sure enough it works. When they are bedding, and you are close, you can actually smell a strong fishy smell.
I use Louisiana pinks (I usually break them in half), hooked in the middle, fishing on a sandy bottom. Pound for pound they have to be the strongest fighting fish in the water. At least I haven't caught one that beats them YET!
Birddog,
I pray that I may live to fish until my dying day. And when it comes to my last cast I then most humbly pray. When in the Lord's great landing net and peacefully asleep. That in His mercy I be judged, BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP.