CRAZY Topwater Snakehead: Maryland Fishing Tips and Techniques
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2020
- TOPWATER was KING for SNAKEHEAD fishing this day! In this video I show you the action and give you some tips on how YOU can improve your topwater success for Snakehead.
Let me know your questions, pleas LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE, and have a good one!
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The head on that thing was ridiculous!!! Sheesh! Lol great vid bro! So if I were to go to Bass pro and pick up a rod/reel and line for snakehead what would be your dream setup perfect for these fish specifically?
DOUBLEO (obsession outdoors) the Penn Fierce III with 30lb braid would be a sweet rig bro. That’ll be my next buy. Thanks!
@@KambotroutFishing straight braid no matter what your throwing? Or do u ever use a leader? And what rod would u go with? Not so much brand, but what length/action is good for snakehead All around? obviously it's going to change depending on what you're throwing but I mean as far as fighting the fish and getting good firm hooksets also castability
DOUBLEO (obsession outdoors) def straight braid. 6’-6.5’ medium heavy, fast action.
@@KambotroutFishing thanks!!!
you prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb forgot the login password. I appreciate any help you can give me!
Yes Bro I can see how much You love Fish!
Snakehead is a great looking fish 👍
F.A Catfishing thanks brother. They’re an awesome and addicting species 👍
Truly enjoyed watching. My first time watching someone catch snakehead, I spend lots of time crabbing on the eastern shore of Maryland, but have yet to try and fish it, that water looks like much of the waters around me. You got yourself a new subscriber, those snakehead are so cool looking!
Thanks much for watching and glad you enjoyed it! Don’t target those sneks though. Once you get a taste for that action, you’ll find less and less time for chasing everything else 😜
Yeah... They hit the lure like crazy... And their power can snap 30lbs line even with a few pounder snakehead.. you should try it bro.. giant snakehead even better then the other
Dang that 11lber was massive! Great action and tips my man! My goal is to catch a doub le digit this year. Btw the way i just purchased a penn fierce 3 3000 spooled it with 20lb braid , solid combo . Great video bro! Keep em coming 🔥🔥🔥
HOOK JUNKY thanks brother and great pick on the rod/reel combo!
@@KambotroutFishing thanks bro! 😎😎🎣🎣🤙🤙
Awesome fish man! I can’t wait to catch a dragon like that. I just found your channel and subbed. You got some good videos bro.
Where were you guys fishing? Been pulling the snakes out the Susqy near Conowingo
Thanks much Mike! I try to strike a balance on giving away locales. I base it on the size of the water and whether it can handle the pressure. This area is unfortunately a smaller area that I don’t think could handle it. I will tell you though that it’s MD’s eastern shore 👍
If you’re interested, I also go over the tools I use to find my fishing spots in this video here around the 13:22 mark: th-cam.com/video/Eqr6kFDJmFs/w-d-xo.html
Good luck on getting your dragon bro. I love all the snakehead I catch, but a dragon is a whole other experience 🥳
Man... these videos. Can’t wait to catch one!!!! It sucks that Walmart is sold out of kayaks tho 😭
Oh man. Didn’t know they were sold out! Have you checked some other vendors? Delaware Paddlesports?
I feel you on the voice control on the GoPro. Drives me nuts. I caught a snake with my barehands in the shallows yesterday and got it on video! Nice video!
lol, when you going to share it? I wanna see it 😜
@@KambotroutFishing gotta do editing first. :)
Barthuntfish I know the struggle ;) Let me know!
Video is up.
NICE!!!!! I have been watching training for these to start I think I’m going to buy a yak !!!!
Best fishing investment you’ll ever make!
Great video buddy... I enjoy to watch you strike again and again..
Thanks very much Zakeer! I hope
To have some more Snakehead video for you after this weekend’s tournament 🎣🐟🐉
@@KambotroutFishing nice... Im a lure maker from malaysia... Im making spinerbait and buzzbait.. wire bait lure... Ill give you some if you want to.. just a gift for you to keep enjoying fishing..
Great job. Bite looked pretty fire to me! If ya don't mind me asking,what pole arm mount are you using for the Go pro Max? I have yet to find one im happy with. Again Great vid!
HooksetTv thanks bro! Unfortunately, they don’t make the setup i have anymore. It’s a bit of a Frankenstein rig lol.
Telescopic boom is made by Amazon Basics, it uses a Scotty Power Lock mount to the yak, and it uses a standard GoPro mount on top.
the top water bite is on lately! gj
raWr Fishing thanks and yes it has! Best way to catch them 👍
Nice🔥🔥
Thanks!
Just subscribed and love the videos. I live in ohio by lake erie and catch bowfin's which is similar to snakehead's but have always wanted to catch a snake head. Plan on making a trip to Maryland next year to fish for them. What is the best time of year to fish topwater for them?
Thanks much!
The best time of year is hard to pin down given how volatile the weather has been lately. Usually the best time though I’d the prespawn bite.
They have two main prespawn periods which occur roughly during late April and early May and then again in late July and early August.
The magic water temp seems to be sustained temps of high 60s and low 70s.
I really need to fish for them this year! I've never caught one
Robert Hamilton most addicting fish you’ll ever chase!
New sub here! Never caught a snakehead looks fun though
Thanks for watching and brother, they’re a game changer. Incredibly fun species!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hunting for snakehead in Southern Maryland this year. Hogans orders are a bit ridiculous, so traveling is on the backburner. Have yet to land one but hooked one on an ultra light fishing for bass almost 10 years ago.
Good luck on the water Kenny. Planning on hitting the Potomac?
@@KambotroutFishing not yet. At some point I will. I am ordering a kayak today, but I still need to get another one for my son. We've been hitting small ponds where they have been reported. Going to hit a few spots around the Patuxent this weekend.
Great video as usual - I assume this is Blackwater. I'm trying to catch my first snakehead in the Magothy River. I've had absolutely no luck so far despite my best efforts, and I'm questioning my tactics. I did spot a snakehead in the headwaters of one of the creeks. He swam right up to my boat, looked at me as if to say - dude you have no chance of catching me, and then disappeared into the murky water. I would love to see you catch some in the Magothy to show us how it's done.
Thanks much! I am starting to explore more “westside” waters now, so maybe it’s time I visit the Magothy 😉
Bro fire day I don’t care what you say 😂😂😂😂 damn go pro always a blast bro
Reel All-American Fishing lol agreed bro. Especially on the GoPro 🤬😜
Awesome videos.. Where can we find those fish grippers? Can't seem to find ones that spin. Thanks
Thanks much and here’s the link:
www.basspro.com/shop/en/econoscale-fish-scales
If you have the money to spend ($120-$240), invest in a pair of Boga Grip lip grippers. Top of the line 👍
@@KambotroutFishing Thank you
Are you able to use the peddles on your kayak at all in that water... or is it all too shallow? I have a native propel... and was wonder if I should just leave the peddles at home... thanks
Great question 👍
I can generally use my pedal drive when I’m in the channel moving between areas, but once I’m fishing closer to shore or in the pad fields, it’s def back to using the paddle.
In some areas, it’ll just be weeds that wrap around your drive/propeller, but in other areas, they’ll be big stumps covered with barnacles. If you see exposed timber, steer clear of that area when using your drive.
Let me know if you have any other questions and have a good one!
Man they are some good eating keep them!
I sometimes do and sometimes don’t. But I agree: excellent eating. Probably the best in freshwater 👍
unsat? is that a fellow military member I see??? lol
Tyler Quinsey haha you know it. That jargon stays with you 😜
I literally laughed out loud with the unsat comment, great video
I'm sure this has been mentioned before but what type of kayak do you have? Thanks!
2018 Old Town Predator PDL. That
Drive is as smooth as butter 😜
these snakehead wildin
DMV Perch Pounders and I love every minute of it 😂
We're at in Maryland I can catch them at. From Baltimore
The Patapsco would be your closest spot to Baltimore, but I also just made a video about how to find Snakehead spots that should help:
th-cam.com/video/FURLAhX_I6c/w-d-xo.html
Let me know if you have any questions and have a good one!
@@KambotroutFishing thank you
I hooked two today, they were way too big than any bass I ever caught. However, they own this round.
Get your revenge brother! 😜
I have been fishing for two years for snakes and have caught one yet. Where do you catch them?
Best areas are the Blackwater area, especially out of the 335 launch and off the bridges in that area, be it Key Wallace, Decoursey, New Bridge, or others.
On the west side of the bay, the upper portions of the Bush, Magothy, South, and Gunpowder Rivers all have good numbers. So does the Susquehanna down around the flats and Dundee Creek.
For more info on how I find snakehead spots, I also have this video if you haven’t seen it:
th-cam.com/video/FURLAhX_I6c/w-d-xo.html
Let me know if you have any other questions and good luck!
U know their escape artists lol I've only landed 2 this year but they were nice, 23 inches and 22 inches at loch raven reservoir by the lower dam
That I do. They remind me all the time 😜
Nice catches. I grew up fishing the little dam area and gunpowder. I need to make it back over that way now that the Snakehead are pretty well established there.
@@KambotroutFishingI live 5 mins from there so I'm there all the time,, I grew up in Edgewood MD tho. they been getting pulled out of there left and right but there is still some left, no where near what their was tho. I watched a guy pull 4-5 out in one day by himself with live bait fish before a storm was coming.
@@KambotroutFishing seen a guy catch a nice largemouth this morning, but I rarely see them there anymore. I think the snakeheads are taking over. There are definitely enough bluegill for Everything to eat there tho
What’s the white mouse you’re using?
My buddy who turned me onto this one swore me to secrecy, but it’s pretty easy to find 😉
I’m generally partial to slender-profile, white topwater lures.
Can you please give me the locations of where you are fishing I’ll be much appreciate it so I would like to enjoy fishing some hair snake head fish
🤣🤣
Flies are done be in the mail soon
Thanks Fred! Looking forward to tangling with some sneks on the fly
The small lures work better with the snakes.
That’s been my experience as well 👍
Would you like to try my top water snakehead lure product ?
Please send me an email to kambotrout1@gmail.com and I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I would like to try it.......
Kambotrout any chance you’d want to meet on the tq sometime I’m going tomorrow and Saturday but if they don’t work we can try another date
Hey Reid, thanks for watching! I was on a camping trip this weekend. How’d your trip go?
We caught 6 Saturday and I went today(Tuesday) and caught 12 snakehead 2 over 8 pounds
Reid Luckett hell yeah! Glad it was a good day for you!
Where can you fish these in maryland?
Northern Snakehead are now in every tributary to the Chesapeake and are in several ponds and lakes as well.
Some hotspots include: Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, the Bush River, Gunpowder River, Middle River, Susquehanna River (below the Conowingo dam), Choptank River (tributaries and upper reaches), Patapsco River, and Patuxent River.
I’ll make a video soon on how to find them as well 👍
@@KambotroutFishing Thank you!
Where is location?
Hey Cuong, thanks for watching!
Unfortunately, I don't share exact locations on smaller bodies of water. I've seen places like that get trashed, overpressured, and generally ruined when they become too well know.
However, I have put together a video which shows you all the tools I use to find places just like this one. Checkout the 13:20 mark in this video here to find the tools I use and good luck! th-cam.com/video/Eqr6kFDJmFs/w-d-xo.html
Where is this located? Can you send me a relative address? Thank you
Phuong Tu thanks for watching but sorry, I don’t give exact locations.
I’ll give exact locations on large bodies of water that I believe can handle the fishing pressure, but smaller bodies of water like this can’t handle huge crowds and will be overrun quickly, decimating the fish and the area in general.
Here’s a video I made though that goes over the tools you can use to find locations like this: m.th-cam.com/video/hsT5HrjE81k/w-d-xo.html
Good luck on the water and have a good one!
Where are you fishing for these snakeheads because this dosen't look like Maryland
This is MD’s eastern shore 👍
@@KambotroutFishing so this is Maryland Than why did you put the snakehead back? I thought the law states that you must kill on sight for snakeheads?
@@IGCproductions2001 Maryland allows you to release snakehead back into the body of water in which they are caught.
These fish are not supposed to be released.
I often harvest them, but it usually depends on whether or not I have room in the freezer or know someone who wants them.
They’re the best tasting fish in freshwater and have an excellent meat to body ratio. They’re also easy to filet, so if I need meat or know someone who does, I’ll often keep them.
With that said, I’ll release them if I don’t have a need to harvest. Many people take an issue with this because they’re labeled as an invasive species, and most fisheries managers do highly encourage their harvest.
However, the published science thus far has not shown invasive impact. I’ve actually done an interview series with John Odenkirk, a VDGIF fisheries biologist, in which we review the most recent science and legal requirements on the species (link below if you’re interested).
th-cam.com/video/lceYaOj8P9M/w-d-xo.html
Still, invasive impact sometimes takes several decades to manifest, so if someone does harvest intensely, I understand their position.
For me though, they’re an admirable species, excellent parents, and incredible sportfish.
Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
@@KambotroutFishing I'll definitely check that out. Thanks!
Your not supposed to throw those back
Legal requirements on Snakehead vary by state, but in most cases, you’re allowed to release them immediately after catching them back into the waters in which you caught them. That’s the case in MD, DE, and VA (this was in MD).
It’s usually only illegal to possess live snakehead or to transport live snakehead (which makes good sense in my opinion).
I often harvest them, but it usually depends on whether or not I have room in the freezer or know someone who wants them.
They’re the best tasting fish in freshwater and have an excellent meat to body ratio. They’re also easy to filet, so if I need meat or know someone who does, I’ll often keep them.
With that said, I’ll release them if I don’t have a need to harvest. Many people take an issue with this because they’re labeled as an invasive species, and most fisheries managers do highly encourage their harvest.
However, the published science thus far has not shown invasive impact. I’ve actually done an interview series with John Odenkirk, a VDGIF fisheries biologist, in which we review the most recent science and legal requirements on the species (link below if you’re interested).
th-cam.com/video/lceYaOj8P9M/w-d-xo.html
Still, invasive impact sometimes takes several decades to manifest, so if someone does harvest intensely, I understand their position.
For me though, they’re an admirable species, excellent parents, and incredible sportfish.
Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
You left out one important tip.
DRAGONS MUST BE RELEASED
Jared O 💯
I love the pandemonium after you land them 😜 There's nothing like it. I really think I need to make a drive.
Lol me too bro and I don’t blame you one bit 😂