A couple years back, a caught a snakehead in my back yard man made holding pond, I couldn't believe it. I was using a football head jig with a worm. Unbelievably, I took a few pictures on my phone, and I had an issue with the memory card and LOST them.. I was not happy to say the least. I was not aware they were in PBC area in FL at the time, as I know they are now! When I caught it, I was of course slowly dragging and hopping the lure on the bottom of the pond, near the shoreline when he bit. These fish are hard fighters, but I get the impression they don't like to chase lures/prey like bass do for instance. My question is, for you guys that have caught a lot of these fish, what advice/tips do you have for catching these? Is there only specific types of presentations these fish accept, or will they chase a spinnerbait? Please let me know your tips/advice

They typically live in very shallow water a lot of people have luck using hollow body frogs and chatterbaits to catch them.

I have only been fishing for them for a month since moving to Broward County but what has worked for me: Be as quiet walking around as you can, they spook very easily and have really good vision. Using a floating plastic frog like a zoom frog or hornytoad in black on as big of a EWG hook you can fit in the bait. 40-50lb braid strait tied to the bait, a medium heavy or heavy frog rod. A long cast as close to the bank as you can in most places and reel it back in at a medium pace, they will explode on it. When they hit it give them a second and then slam it home as hard as you can. 

 

I could not get a normal hollowbody frog to stick well despite many very big hits, but am getting a way better hookup ratio with the single hook and the less expensive plastic frogs.