Snakehead fishing near Mattawoman creek

[Carl Z.]

So when do the snakehead start getting active?  A friend has a boat and wants to come down to try it out. When should we plan for?

Carl

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Carl Zmola

[Gregg DiSalvo]

They will be active now.  Not feeding heavily and a little lethargic.  I don't start targeting them on the fly for another month or so, but a slow streamer in likely haunts may get you one.  Conventional folks are fishing both lures and minnows under bobbers now.  

[Carl Z.]

Thanks Greg,. Do the snakeheads turn off in July and August like the rest of the area?

I'm looking forward to catching some.

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[Gregg DiSalvo]

Nope!  That's one of the best things about snakehead.  Not only have they inhabited shallow, low oxygen water where there really weren't any game opportunities in the past, but they also bite aggressively all summer long.  I will say that they are harder to catch as the summer wears on.  By August, the spatterdock and hydrilla beds are VERY thick and harder to find open holes/channels where you can pull a fly through, but you can still catch them. A falling tide will force them closer to the edges of the hydrilla and makes it slightly easier.