15+ POUND SNAKEHEAD: BUZZBAIT & FROG FISHING MADNESS on the Potomac; Snakehead Tournament Fishing
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- This was one of the BEST and WORST days I've ever had LOL. The topwater action was insane, I caught the FATTEST Snakehead I've ever caught, and it was a SHOOTOUT for 1st place in this tournament.
Man what a DAY! See below for links to gear and more and have a good one!
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I wanna thank you Steve, today i finally caught my first snake head! Thank you for all the great tips and motivation to get out there! Your the best snake head fishing channel out there hands down. I was using the frog with no luck and i switched to my chatter-bait and nailed one after like 5 casts!
Thanks and Congrats brother! Now the addiction really begins 😜
Just a fantastic day of fishing and a whole lot of strong learning points. Appreciate it, man.
Thanks Collin 👊
That’s exactly why I leave a lot of my mistakes in the video: to help others learn and to remind myself to relearn what I apparently forgot in the moment 😂
It's only this channel where fellow snakehead charmers would cuss cause of the fact that we accidentally caught nice sized bass... LOL.
😂😂
I still have love for my bass, just not as much when I’m in a snakehead tournament with no big bass side pot 😏
Finally got a chance to watch this video all the way through! Fantastic day with some fantastic info and camera work. Great job sharing as always brother 👊🏽🎣🐉
Thanks Joe and thanks again for the help brother 👊
I’m glad I’m not the only one that have them days of mistakes way to hang in there and over come
Lol, man, I’ve had a bunch this summer
Heading up on Sunday to La Plata, from south Florida. Do you have any spots that we can fish? Hate asking, but it's a long drive. Thanks
I would try Allen’s Fresh or Port Tobacco Marina. Those are two nearby launches on some decent Snakehead water
Where on the Potomac?
Awesome day. That bite was on fire. That was a clear tank you missed at the 6 minute mark
Thanks brother. The monsters were rolling out there for sure
Great video! Appreciate the honesty watching you work through a day of fishing issues!
Thanks Andrew. It would be easy for me to edit out and hide my mistakes and struggles, but that’s just not me. Showing the struggle hopefully helps to show others how to push through it too.
Next time, Steve! 👏🏾👏🏾 Great show. Awesome tips. Those rough days are the days when we learn the best lessons. Congratulations on 2nd place 🥈
Thanks brother and I very much agree. I fished a tournament today and put some of those lessons into practice.
@@KambotroutFishing you’re welcome. That’s great!
Love the content as always Buddy but the videos within the video are getting better 😂🤣 Keep up the good work!!!
Lol thanks Chris. Got some more clips in reserve 😏
Dang!!thats a big mama you got!! Im new to this channel and love it! Didnt know that northern snakeheads gets tank and fight hard like that! Micropeltes here in Asia got a serious contender! Your videos are fun and exciting to watch!
Thanks Drew 👊
There are other fish that pull harder than snakehead, but a snakehead’s fight is erratic, unpredictable, often with epic jumps, and the fight never ends even when they’re out of the water (until you either dispatch them or release them). I love their brand of chaos
Elmer is the dude! I went fishing with him a few times, he was too advanced to be dealing with me lol. 808 snakehead huntah! He said he knew you, I think I was watching your videos first and asked him if he knew you, I was geeked lol
Haha, any time I see Elmer’s name on the angler roster on a tourney I know there’s a good chance I ain’t winning. Love his videos and watching him fish. His techniques are on point 👏👏
Good guys besides 😜
is there any snakehead tournament fishing in california??
Good question. I did a quick search and didn't see anything. That said, if you ever wanted to organize your own, you can use apps like Fishing Chaos, iAngler, and others to quickly set up a tournament to share with others.
appreciate the video. congratulations on 2nd place. You ever thought about getting a phone leash?
Thanks Billy, and yes I have and I absolutely need to. I didn’t realize how close I was to losing my phone on several occasions on this trip until I watched the video lol.
@KambotroutFishing hate to see you lose it during a tournament or at all
This a whopper popper? Headed to Blackwater Preserve next week wanted to have the right stuff. Planning on some swim baits, senkos.
This was actually the Dragon V2 Buzzbait made by American Snakehead Customs. I have a link to it and a discount code for you in the video description. Good luck down in Blackwater 👊🎣
@@KambotroutFishing ty placed an order.
I bet catch, photo, release is exciting with our VA monsters
I agree with your philosophy about using time wisely - the other day I wasn't struggling to pattern fish on a heavily pressured impoundment in northern VA - I noticed baitfish activity in two areas of the lake and the second time a happened to be eating lunch, so I drifted around following this school of minnows (1-2inch, silver or transparent, large schools near surface) and just observing..
I was able to put together a pattern after realizing the bass were corralling baitfish and gorging on them because I think our recent storms have washed these small fish out into the open (we've had a full week+ of fronts rolling through with wind and some rain - sun came out, but another storm was rolling in that afternoon.. I think all the fish must have been out feeding up while weather was calm.
I ended up landing my first walleye off a point by the deepest part of the lake, then headed to a mid-lake point and found more schools of baitfish trapped in a hidden cove (grass growth made up the "trap" with one small exit, but it isn't visible above water and I've never noticed it - I happened to see the school of baitfish causing surface activity in circles, trying to find a way out, for at least 10 min before I started slow rolling an underspin and small keitech under the school and plucked off multiple 2lb-3lb bass within 20 min
I saw maybe 10 others kayaks on this small impoundment and zero other catches that day. Observation and using your brain and tools you have available makes all the difference in the world. I've struggled on that lake for years - I have probably 500 hours there at least, maybe 1000
my first snakehead ever was during a NVKBA (local kbf affiliate) bass tourney on a creek that holds world-record class snakehead - I was super excited, had wanted to catch snakehead since I'm a Potomac river local and have seen guys chasing them since before they were still the "super predator dangerous invader" VA biologist thought they would be... Had it on the lip grippers and held it out over the port side to see its' full length (I couldn't get it high enough held in front of me over the yak)..
I estimate conservatively around 10-12lbs, but I'm 6'4" and, assuming you're 6'+ and that fish you weighed is the size I'm imagining it relative to you and your hobie.. Anyways, it shook, like they do, and I didn't know how much stronger than largies they are... Grippers slipped out of my hand before I got a weight and I watched that fish slowly swim under my yak, white rapala lip grippers still hanging there like a lip piercing, lol.
If it wasn't a bass tourney that I was in the running to win, I would have been mad that day.
BTW, VA produced both the last 2 Northern Snakehead world records.. 17lbs 6oz in 2017 and 19lbs 5oz a few years after that (2019). There's no doubt been 20+lb fish caught or killed by bow fishermen - they just haven't been submitted or didn't quality for some technical rule the angler overlooked.. All other records come from asia. Our Northerns out-grow Florida's Great Snakehead.
@@tragikk03 Great description of the importance to attention to detail and observation when on the water brother. Glad it paid off for you on that pressured impoundment. I have an idea which it may be, but I won't name it here.
The explosive power of Snakeheads are one reason I love fishing for them, especially by kayak. Trying to control or at least handle them effectively is always a challenge, and I love that challenge. You been putting floats on your lip grippers since that big one with the lip piercing?
@KambotroutFishing No floats, but I have the gripper tethered to my seat frame with 550 parachord tied with 4-loop clinch knots on each end - parachord doesn't slip in my experience. Ain't no kill like overkill lol
I also have a Donkey Leash tethered to the seat frame as well for redundancy that I haven't used, yet.
I couldn't help but laugh at that giant dropping into the water, leveling out, then slowly cruising away. You know how some big fish take their time leaving.. lol
Have you ever heard Steven Rinella's "theory of fun"? He got it from some dudes he knew, and I think they're on to something.
@@tragikk03 that story of yours with the big fish reminds me of the time I had a roughly 19lb Snakehead escape my grips and fall into the water, but land on an exposed tree stump. He sat there for a moment gathering himself, then flipped out again and extricated his head from the stump. Haunts me to this day I never got a weight on that one.
I’m not familiar with Steven Rinella, but after a quick google search, I’m gonna check him out. Found a video on life lessons from hunting with him. Thanks for the recommendation.
Awesome video. Very entertaining!
Thanks John 🙏👊
It’s a magical window in time to fish this area where there’s just enough grass to hold fish but not enough grass to lockup the cove. Managed to hit it just about perfectly
That place is a lot of fun. got a bunch of snakes there a little while back. Grass is starting to get too thick now tho.
Well said brother. On low tide now, that cove is locked up. There’s definitely a limited window where it reaches that magical level of grass growth and water depth.
how deep is that water? I typically fish blackwater, and wicomico on the banks. Should I be throwing topwater over deeper water?
The water here was 3-7 feet, but there’s so much grass that at most I would have a 2 feet to as little as a couple inches of water between the grass line and the surface.
@@KambotroutFishing thanks for the reply! I’ll have to try tossing out a little bit more off the bank next time I’m out
@@johnkonkel1740 good luck brother 👊🎣
Really good video!
Stay with it be persistent and overcome
Thanks Stu 👊 Had to lock my game down lol.
If you want to throw a buzzbait and its too weedy I would throw a jump-frog, have you ever tried them?
I’ve only tried them a handful of times but that is a good idea, Thanks. I’ll have to give it a shot.
Just starting to hunt these bad boyz. How often are SH in open water as opposed to around structure?
It depends on the structure. If you mean open water without structure, it’s rare and usually occurs during the colder months.
In the warmer months, snakehead will usually relate to structure, especially underwater vegetation like hydrilla.
@@KambotroutFishing Copy. So I'm guessing you would NOT consider the area you're fishing in as open water because of the hydrilla. Coming from bass fishing, if I don't see a laydown, it's open lol Thanks for the reply. Love the videos!
Awesome video once again brother. Man, those big northerns sure don't fight very much or hard, do they? Hell, I've had 4 pound bullseyes that fight better than that tank. lol!
Lol, some do and some don’t. I caught some this weekend that fought like Bullseye, but by and large, the northerns def don’t fight like the bullseyes.
@@KambotroutFishing Congrats on that big ol 15 pounder. Is that your new PB?
@@swkelley nah, biggest right now is 35” and ~18-19 pounds.
@@KambotroutFishing SICK!!! I need to head up your way and get you to put me on one of those big northerns.
@@swkelley any time brother 👊
how do you work the frog for snakehead? and does color matter?
Depends on the structure and mood of the fish. Over large grass mats and pad fields, I’ll often slow reel a Teckel Honker to move the fish, then slow down once they’re waking on it.
In tighter cover, I’ll usually work it more slowly, letting it settle for 10-15 seconds before twitching it 5-10 inches, then rest again for 10 seconds (rinse and repeat all the way in).
Color matters some days and doesn’t on others, but I’m partial to white, red, and black.
You might be interested in this video here. I go into depth on frog fishing snakehead: 8 Froggin' Tips: Snakehead Edition - How to Frog and Mouse Fish Northern Snakehead
th-cam.com/video/rU8CsJDKb-M/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful fish🥹. Love how every video i get to learn something new.
The blowups and fishing action are often my favorite part of a video, but if we can help each other learn too, that’s definitely my goal.
Man I have had the same luck with big waiting even after telling myself to wait lol and also catch bass where all just the snakehead are “suppose to be “
Sometimes those blowups are just too hard to resist setting the hook lol.
I catch bass along snakehead and snakehead among bass all the time. Even see then swimming together.
Some beautiful catches there. Some of those bass probably would have made you a contender for a dual tournament situation lol. Great video.
Lol, those bass wouldn’t leave me alone, but they did keep the pace up and running. Thanks bro 👊
Amazing video! Unreal day on the water
Thanks DK 👊 Action was unreal 🎣
Epically insane!! I've got to throw a buzzbait more. I've lost several on the honker. Probably need to tune my hooks more.
Snakehead aren’t always down to buzzbait, but when they are, lawd is it a good time
Awesome video brother and congrats on placing 2nd! I would love to go fishing with you!
Thanks brother 👊 Hit me up at kambotrout1@gmail.com. My schedule is jammed tight, but we’ll try to get it on the calendar.
Almost need to do some Ju Jitsu on them 😂😂 Floppin & fighting in the kayak
Lol, if you figure out those moves for sneks lemme know
What Is the new bump board? Does if fold in half?
That’s the 48-inch Ketch board. It folks in half and has a black slide to keep it in place once extended.
It’s pricey, but very sturdy and will come in handy when/if I break that 36” mark on a snakehead (or any other larger species of fish).
@@KambotroutFishingThanks for the reply! I am from Pa and do a lot of kayak Pike and Muskie fishing so that looks perfect for me. Second question what float do you have on your lip grips? Mine barely holds my grips up in the water let alone if a fish was wearing them in the water.
@@RyanRogus that’s actually a float that I salvaged while on the water lol. But to find some, I’d either look online or in person at a store which sells crabbing gear. They usually have floats which are just about the right size for our grippers.
I havent fished for 20 years but I dont ever remember the line getting tangled up so much.
Gotta work at it for those kind of tangles 😏
Love it - Strictly Business 🔥
Thanks brother. Was grinding hard, if not always effectively 😂
What a day Bro... WHAT A DAY!!! 🤯💪
Thanks brother! A lot has to line up for a day like this. Blessed and fortunate to have lived it.
@@KambotroutFishing TRUTH 🙏💪
Another great video. It truly is appreciated.
Thanks for watching brother 👊
@@KambotroutFishing Stripers up on my end ready to go. Susquehanna baby.
Very good 👍
Thanks!
Wish we had fish like that here, monsters down there
It’s nuts. VA has multiple world records. I’m convinced of it.
@@KambotroutFishing even Maryland is amazing for snakes i fish pa/nj for them
Hey Steve, Where are you from?
Hey Jack, from MD 👍
So at one point, Steve had 84 inches of SH in the kayak. 84 over 3 snakes, at the same time.
SMH. Tight lines bud!
Lol, thanks bro. I hadn’t done that math yet but that’s hilarious.
Congrats on your Dragon....true monster !!!
Thanks bro 👊 that fish was ridiculously thick
What lake held this tournment
This one here was actually a river. Not everyone fished here because the tourney was open to anglers choice in terms of water so long as the waters were public.
This is a trib to the Potomac, VA side.
@@KambotroutFishing appreciate that you ever get to NC I'll put you on some nice bowfin down here
Awesome fishing. And I know about gear foul ups. Ugh!
Thanks, Steve 👊
I earned a lot of those foul-ups this day 🤦♂️😂
What part of water is this in VA?
Fairly well known creek on VA side, Potomac trib, public launch (with fee), frequent site of tourneys. I don’t directly name drop waters though.
No joke where is that those fish at Mattawoman are getting too finicky for me
Fairly well known creek on VA side, Potomac trib, public launch (with fee), frequent site of tourneys. I don’t directly name drop waters though.
Went back there a week later and bite wasn’t nearly as fire. Wasn’t bad, but want gangbusters either.
Why the fish always gotta bite when you're trying to have a conversation?
The cut scenes in this one are pretty awesome, bro. Nice work!
Also... The honker. Live by the flashy feet, die by the flashy feet. Those things draw SO MANY strikes, but they can be fickle when it comes to the hookset.
Smaller sneks are a PAIN to hook with the Honker. Larger sneks aren’t as bad, but even then, you gotta be on your game and I prefer to tweak the hooks slightly for easier hooksets.
Ur Awesome to watch
Thanks J 👊
It’s only twice as heavy. That’s an attribute you want when driving 1000 deck screws.
Pulled in 7 bass and 2 snakehead today. THE BASS ARE ALL GONE THEY SAY..........
Dey gone 😏
That string attached to the bump board is so you dont drop it in the drink. Smh. Prep, maintenance, and organization would really take your game to the next level. Also you need to angle your rear rod holders back so you stop hitting them.
I can do nothing but agree with everything you said lol
Bro. Don't hate on the Bass like that.
Lol, I still love my bass, just not as much when I’m in Snakehead tournament with no big bass side pot
You let them go? I thought we had to kill snakehead….
The short answer is no, we aren’t legally required to kill them. The longer answer is below:
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.
The peer-reviewed and 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).
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Still, invasive impact sometimes takes several decades to manifest, so if someone does harvest intensely, I understand their position.
My personal opinion is that the degree of their impact will depend on the waters involved. In uniformly shallow waters with no established large predatory species (like Blackwater), they’ll likely have more of an impact (though I do think their impact is overblown and the snakehead scapegoated for our own impact).
In deeper waters though, they’ll likely have less of an impact, especially when those deeper waters have large, established predatory fish.
For me, they’re an admirable species, excellent parents, and incredible sportfish.
Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
@@KambotroutFishing that was informative. Thank you
Don’t release them brother
I don’t release all I catch. I often harvest, but I also see a lot of value in the species and admire them in many ways, especially in how they care for their young.
@@KambotroutFishing it’s a weird place I’m an avid bass fisherman and I want to respect the sport but they are invasive. Maybe just harvest the larger ones