The last few times I have gone out fishing for snakeheads I have used a Booyeah Pad Crasher Jr. and have had pretty good results but I'm not all that experienced with these fish. The down side of these frogs are the price tag. I have to replace a frog every trip or trip and a half and if I lose one in a snag it's a $5 loss.

 

I have used Zoom Toads but I feel like the hook up ratio isn't as good and I have a hard time hooking them up. Seems like I'm adjusting the hook to make it weedless every throw.

 

So what do you guys use for snakehead? Some type of hollow frog, zoom(what size hook), something else?

 

Bonus: Does color matter?

Go to Bass Pro and buy the Humpin Toad box. There are like 50 of them for $15. If they tear them up, who cares. Just get the 5/0 EWG Magna hook and rig them Texas style with no weight. Good luck.

PS, BRAID, at least 50#.

Zoom Horny toads with the Stanley Ribbit hook

 

First time using them I finally caught my first snakehead.  An hour later I caught 4.5lb bass.  And my next time using thme this past weekend I caught a 5.5lb bass among others.  So yeah, I'm really fond of them now.

Stick with what these guys are telling you. Go with bulk soft plastic frogs. You can still use hollow body frogs, only if  you can find really cheap ones then go with those. My brief experience with snakeheads although fun, I still prefer LMB. Snakeheads fight just like big mudfish, their cool, but eh...

keep the torn up toads and buy a bottle of Mend-it. stuff is amazing.  an $8 bottle will repair over $200 in soft plastics. 

Booyah Pod Crusher Jr. is my go to frog for bass and snakeheads. and definitely 50# braid! snakeheads don't seem to care about color, and for bass the cricket color is the one to go with

JD's customs frog. Those frogs flat out get the big snakeheads

Go to Bass Pro and buy the Humpin Toad box. There are like 50 of them for $15. If they tear them up, who cares. Just get the 5/0 EWG Magna hook and rig them Texas style with no weight. Good luck.

x2. I also like the unweighted Zoom Horny Toad hooks in 5/O. If you aren't getting strikes slow down and fish them like a swimbait.

 

Quiet single bladed buzzbaits are killer as well. They're difficult to hook though if they hit it sideways, regardless of what bait you're throwing. 

 

Depending on vegetation, the following lures are what I'll usually throw...

 

-chatterbait in sexy shad or frog colors

-t-rigged 7" curly tail worm (usually red,motor oil, or blue)

-wake bait like a 1-minus or preferably a BPS "The Egg" in XL size

-inline spinner if it's early and the weeds aren't grown in

-5" soft plastic swimbaits

 

I've hands down caught more Potomac northern snakeheads on humpin' toads, buzzbaits and wakebaits than any other lures; but they'll strike just about anything that's in their vicinity if they're active. 

Superglue/mendit will fix any rips on the booyah and mendit will fix torn soft plastics that aren't beyond repair

They say there good eating fish? I wonder if there better than hushpuppies?

The northerns certainly are.

I started using Fix A Frog this year and it fixes the holes in the frog so that you can use them again. its good stuff

ive been using hollow body frogs for snakehead. smaller ones like 2 inches and under work good reeling them fast ish across the water. usually sight fish them. for gear i use a curado with a 10-17 pound medium rod... 30 lb braid does the job but only if you have a wire trace attatched to your frog... usually i can fix the frogs and with the wire trace i can catch snakeheads all day without retieing and ill usually keep a few extra frogs with wire to a barrel swivel in the box.. good luck

I have a buddy who is a snakehead hunter and his favorite lure is a SPRO Poppin Frog in Tropical color.  I catch them on many different lures from DShads to Senkos and even cranks.  Here is a Senko Snakehead on 6lb test.  My best to date.  Any yes, they are very good tablefare if you can get past the slime to clean them.  

 

 

Have caught well over 100 bullseye snakehead in South Florida, with many over 5 pounds, one of them over 10 pounds and I caught all these snakeheads on hollow belly frogs and soft plastic frogs. Color seems to not matter as much as the action of the frog you use and what's most important is how you fish the frog. Extra sharp hooks are a must, especially if you are targeting snakeheads over 5 pounds since these fish have a very hard mouth and not as easy to hook compared to a largemouth bass.

On 9/25/2013 at 5:02 PM, LgMouthGambler said:

PS, BRAID, at least 50#.

An absolute necessity for sankeheads.  They are nearly impossible to catch on mono-filament.

On 5/17/2018 at 8:40 AM, BCline said:

An absolute necessity for sankeheads.  They are nearly impossible to catch on mono-filament.

Crazy. Took the kid out fishing for his first time (11) in Pompano Beach on a canal. We had shiners. kid landed a 5.5 snakehead midday on a spinner. My theory is the snakehead had eaten the shiner was just sitting because he didn't know he had a fish till he was reeling in the line to check the bait.   Haven't caught one since and its been 2 months, elusive catch. Kid's hooked now (so am I).