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So today is my dad's birthday, so I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and of course...he wanted to go fishing for snakeheads. So we headed down to Slavins at 2PM, and we were off by 3:30PM...drain plug sealed tight.
It was hot, my car gauge said 96, but the sun was peeping in and out behind clouds. I headed for the pads thinking they'd be deep in there if there was water. The tide was moving out fast by 4PM, so I push poled back there to the spots Capt. Mike took me and my bud last Saturday. First cast, I got a decent 2lber on the keitech flapper.



Then after that I pushed us around the pond for a bit, no signs of activity, no bites. No wind, and plenty of sun. I don't know how Mike and Dave do it all summer, but after about 60 minutes of that I had enough and pushed us back into the channel. Low tide was at 7:30PM, so we hit all the good grass with poppers and frogs.

The bite turned on at about 7PM, and I got a 20" LMB. She looked HUGE, but I don't think she weighed more than 3-4lbs, she was really thin and my scale was out of batteries.


Then about 10 yards away, I got slammed on the Spro popping frog again, another chunky 4lber this time, I didn't get a pic because she choked the frog and both hooks were deep down and it took me a while to get them out. I just wanted to get her back in ASAP, she swam off just fine. I hooked up with another one, but it came off about 5ft from the boat.

We headed in around 7:45PM, just as golden hour was going to turn on, my dad was getting tired and he was hungry.