What is the best bait for snakehead fishing? A detailed guide to practical bait selection tips
The snakehead is a common food fish, with effects such as promoting muscle growth and blood production and helping wounds heal. They are fierce by nature, feeding mainly on small fish and shrimp. So, what bait should be used to catch snakehead?
1. What bait should be used to catch snakehead?
The snakehead is a carnivorous fish, and the bait generally consists of live creatures such as small fish, small shrimp, earthworms, loaches, and frogs. If fishing with a frog, it is best to pierce the hook in through the vent and bring it out at the tip of the upper jaw. When fishing with a loach, the hook needs to be passed crosswise through the loach's back.
2. Points to note when fishing for snakehead
1. Be patient and meticulous
While blindly slapping the water surface to probe for fish, carefully search for and identify snakehead eggs or schools of small snakehead. Once found, in the vast majority of cases a large snakehead can be caught. When it swallows the bait, you must not be impatient. Generally, if it has not taken the bait firmly the first time, it will swallow two or three more times; only once it has taken it firmly, and you notice bubbles in the water or the line being pulled out strongly, should you lift the rod and pull the fish ashore.
2. Master the three quicknesses
Quick eyes, quick hands, quick reactions. After spotting a school of small snakehead, you should be sharp-eyed and quick-handed, swiftly extending the rod to strike. Otherwise, they will very likely swim away. Once the fish has taken the hook firmly, as soon as you lift the rod, you must press on in one go and pull the fish ashore. Otherwise, once the snakehead reacts, it will desperately engage in a “tug-of-war”, and dangerous situations of “a fight to the death” sometimes occur.
3. Frog bait should be kept fresh and alive
Snakehead generally do not eat animals with an off smell or that are dead. The frog cannot be too large or too small, and after catching a snakehead the frog should be replaced, so that the chances of hooking fish increase.
Snakehead are active by nature and are relatively hard to control once hooked, so when fishing for snakehead you must be sharp-eyed and quick-handed.