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Title: Snakehead
Post by: tom1441 on 06/04/18 17:15 UTC

We have started to to see the snakehead in the Upper Chesapeake Bay. I haven’t got a chance to fish for them yet but I will get out soon for one.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: ctom on 06/04/18 18:01 UTC

Let's try hard to keep them in your digs Tom. We don't need any here.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: tom1441 on 06/05/18 06:52 UTC

We don’t want them but years back someone dumped there fish tank pets in a pond. The rest is history. I don’t know if they ever found they people that started this mess, but they are everywhere in the bay from Virginia to the top of the Chesapeake and all feaders

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: ctom on 06/05/18 07:12 UTC

Sounds about like the big-head and silver carp so yak catfish farmers put in rearing ponds to try and control algae years back.....then floods cleaned the ponds out, catfish, carp and algae. Like-wise....the rest is history.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: olsarge on 06/05/18 12:15 UTC

Cast a plastic buzz frog right next to the bank and reel at back parallel to the bank as fast as humanly possible.  Then hang on.  I have heard they are quite tasty but have never tried one (but then again I heard the same thing about freshwater drum but I found the texture to be such a turnoff I couldn't eat them).  Hope to take a trip to south Florida in the future strictly to fish for snakeheads.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: tom1441 on 08/20/18 09:52 UTC

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Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: olsarge on 08/20/18 16:45 UTC

Cool.  dude looks like he has an attitude just layin there.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: Lines on 08/20/18 17:30 UTC

Looks like a muskie/bowfin cross.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: basscatlildave on 08/20/18 20:38 UTC

Mean looking for sure.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: ctom on 08/20/18 20:56 UTC

Looks like an axe target to me.

Title: Re: Snakehead
Post by: tom1441 on 08/22/18 08:00 UTC

Agree ctom nasty looking. Should be good fertilizer, but they say they are good eats