So I had to ask the question: After hearing snakeheads were found in Delaware, has anyone caught a snakehead on a fly?
I haven't heard of a snakehead taken while fly fishing in Delaware, but I remember hearing a tale about one being caught in Washington D.C. this summer.
After a little research, I learned it wasn't a fairytale, as the angler's name might suggest. Guide Rob Snowhite, who leads trips in northern Virginia and Washington D.C., reportedly landed a 34-inch snakehead over the summer on a rubber-legged beadhead nymph in the Tidal Basin.
He wrote in detail about the catch on his personal blog and Orvis News.
Pretty amazing fish, but I'd rather there not be any for the taking in the U.S. For the fishery's sake, here's hoping you don't see any pictures like this coming from your neck of the woods any time soon.
Photo courtesy Rob Snowhite.
Comments
Check out Gene Mueller’s Fishing report on August 3, 2011 at the Washington Times website: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/gene-muellers-fishing-report-907891880/ Quoting the report: “according to the top Virginia fisheries biologist, John Odenkirk, they are not decimating the largemouth bass population. In fact, there have never been more bass in the tidal stretches than this year, so you might as well enjoy the tremendous fight a snakehead puts up and its willingness to charge into virtually every artificial lure known to man.”
Snakehead fish unlike Asian Carp are not capable of hurting our fisheries.