Down here we tend to lump them into the general class of "Bream" which is mostly bluegills and redear, better known as shellcrackers. I have a friend who is mostly a cricket drowner who tells me using worms redears tend to take the bait much slower than bluegill do. My old standby is a bream killer under some type of dry bug, usually a popper or foam grasshopper. The Bream Killer is the model of simplicity. No. 8, or smaller aberdeen hook. Chennille of choice, black, brown, yellow & black full length of shank. Usually 2 sets of rubber legs each side resulting in 8 total, squirrel tail wing. If I slip a little lead wire on the hook for deeper holes, I try to remember to add a tail of some type to add a visual difference. So many of the bedding area are so shallow I usually fish it without weight. Like this
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