Belltown Run

Belltown Run is small, tidal, and exactly the kind of overlooked creek water that snakehead love to colonize. Look for them holding tight to whatever cover the current has stacked up — matted grass lines, sunken wood, and any pad fields that form in the slower bends. These fish are ambush feeders, so they'll sit motionless in that cover waiting to blow up on anything that swims or splashes past. Because St. Georges tide data (about 5.7 miles off) governs the swing here, timing matters more than most anglers realize.

On the high water, snakehead push shallow into flooded grass and soft cover to hunt, but they get spread out and harder to pin down. As the tide starts to fall, though, baitfish get pulled off the banks and funneled into the remaining channels and pockets, and that's when the bite really turns on — the ebb concentrates both forage and predator, and reaction strikes come fast. Plan trips around a falling tide window whenever possible.

Access here is bank-and-wade rather than trailer-boat; there's no ramp mapped within about three miles, though a kayak carry-in is plausible for reaching the harder corners. Shore parking is close, roughly 0.07 mile from the water, making foot access easy. Work weedless topwater frogs and buzzbaits over the grass, follow up with chatterbaits and weedless soft plastics through the wood, and stay on 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of cover once hooked.