What is your favorate search tool for brim beds? Went out today to mark some new spots for crappie on an old creek run, got to fish out there in the open for about an hour before the wind blew my off so I went looking for a brim bed and finally found one after a lot of looking. Used crickets to search. Caught 34 keepers, only thing they would really bite were crickets and that includes the shellcrackers, at least for me.