Huge Snakehead Caught while Tournament Fishing on the Potomac River

Big snakehead caught at 3:45

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The MD and VA DNR recommend that you do not release snakeheads alive since they are an invasive species, but you are allowed to release them alive if you feel its the right thing to do. As you've seen in all my videos I always release my fish alive, I hate killing anything but I was just following the DNR's advice. Off camera I actually drove the knife through its cranium so it was alrdy dead. These types of fish move even after dead like in this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWB3aOX_h4Y&list=LLx-941GqGPXXupZ4mLixifw&index=2 And I wanted to take it home to eat but didn't have a bag with me so I just threw it back for the crawfish to eat :P

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Lures Used: Stanely Ribbit Frog (4", bullfrog), Spro Bronzeye Shad 65 (wicked perch), SK burner spinnerbait (1/2 ounce, smokey shad)

Rod/Reel/Line used:

-Team Daiwa Steez 103 HA (10 lb suffix 832 braid) with a BPS bionic blade micro 6'6" med/fast

-Abu Garcia Orra Inshore (40 lb suffix 832 braid) with a g loomis e6x cast rod 6'6" MH/fast

-Shimano Antares DC (40 lb suffix 832 braid) with a Quantum Smoke PT micro 6' 4.5" (broken tip) MH/fast

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Location: Leesylvania State Park, VA

Date: August 22nd, 2015

Primary Pattern: fishing shallow grass with frogs/toads

Time Fished: 6:30 am - 2:30 pm

Air Temp: High of 81 - Low of 65

Water Temp: 80 degrees

Water Clarity: 10 inches to 60 inches

Low Tide: 7:00 am

High Tide: 2:00 pm

Conditions: Sunny - bluebird skies with winds from the N up to 8 mph

Scale Used: Xtoolz grip-n-weigh (now discontinued :/)

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Overview - Another tough day out on the water. My subscribers struggled the day before when the cold front moved in, and the majority of the field struggled at the tournament today with the conditions giving the bass lockjaw. Out of 35 teams, more than half weighed in 0 or 1 fish.

My buddy Joel did an awesome job putting us on some quality fish first thing in the morning. We fished shallow grass around low tide and got tons of blow ups on the ribbit toads. We only converted one fish but as the bites slowed down we decide to make a run and explore different water.

The rest of the day we struggled as we tried fishing points, rocks, and shallow grass adjacent to deep drop-offs. When the tide finally came in we made a move into a canal that's too shallow to fish during low tide. The water was clear enough that we were able to see dozens of 2-5 lb bass swimming around.

There was an easy 22 lb bag swimming in there but we could not get any bites despite trying a plethora of baits including shakeyheads, senkos, small jerkbaits, small crankbaits, frogs, toads, grubs, and others.

I did manage to get one bite that I missed punching through the heavy mats with a 1.25 ounce tungsten weight. The interesting thing about the canal was that the grass mats were LOADED with crawfish. And I mean absolutely loaded.

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