Buttons Creek

Buttons Creek is classic snakehead water — a tidal creek where these fish push shallow to ambush prey around whatever cover they can find. Look for them tucked into lily pads, matted grass, and downed wood along the banks. Snakehead are ambush predators, so the edges of vegetation and shady wood pockets are where you want your bait working, not the open channel.

Since this creek is tidal, with the nearest NOAA reference at Woolford, Church Creek about 4.1 miles off, timing matters. High water pushes snakehead deep into flooded grass and pad fields where they're tough to pull out. As the tide starts to fall, baitfish and frogs get flushed out of that cover, and snakehead slide out to intercept them — that ebb stage is when the bite really turns on and fish become more catchable in accessible pockets.

Access here is workable but modest — there's parking mapped nearby, closest about 0.68 miles from the water, so a bit of a walk-in for bank fishing. If you're bringing a kayak or small boat, there's a ramp mapped roughly 0.79 miles away. Either way, work the shady cover methodically. Throw weedless topwater frogs and buzzbaits over the pads and grass, or chatterbaits and weedless soft plastics through wood, all on 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of cover once hooked.