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📍 Snakehead water · Florida

C-13 and C-42 canal

Canal Bullseye snakehead Established FL

Documented bullseye snakehead water in Broward County, Florida. Everglades drainage. 1 USGS specimen record (2018); status: established. Location verified from the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database.

How to fish C-13 and C-42 canal

Access, conditions & where the fish hold. Pick how you're fishing:
🏞 Non-tidal
Levels hold steady here — no tide to time. Fish low light early and late, work shade lines and wind-blown cover through the heat of the day.

Bullseye snakehead in the C-13 and C-42 system settle into the same kind of ambush cover you'd expect from this invasive predator: matted pads, canal-edge grass lines, laydown wood, and any shoreline junk that breaks up current and casts shade. Since this canal system is non-tidal, there's no tide chart to plan around — instead key on light and wind. Early and late in the day, when light is low, snakehead push shallow and cruise the edges hunting. Through the hot middle hours, they tuck under mats and wood for shade, and a stretch of bank getting stacked with wind-blown grass or scum can suddenly load up with fish looking for cover and baitfish pushed in with it.

Access here favors bank and kayak anglers. Mapped parking sits about 0.42 mi from the water, so plan on a short walk in with gear. There's no boat ramp mapped within roughly 3 miles, so this is really a bank-and-carry or kayak-launch spot rather than a trailer-boat destination — pack light and be ready to hand-carry a kayak if you're paddling.

Tactics stay simple and snakehead-specific: walk weedless topwater frogs and buzzbaits right over the pads and grass, follow up with a chatterbait or weedless soft plastic worked along shaded edges, and spool up with 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of cover once they eat.

🅿️ Parking & shore access

+ 9 more parking areas are on the map above. For every lot, tap 🅿️ All parking in Maps up top.

🛶 Boat ramps & launches
No boat ramp mapped within ~1.5 mi — this is likely a bank or kayak-carry spot. A car-topper or kayak launched from shore access is often the play; check the parking options under “Shore.”

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Coordinates are approximate, for finding the general area. Snakehead is an invasive species — regulations on catching, keeping, transporting and killing it vary by state and change often. Never move a live snakehead between waters. Always confirm current rules with your state wildlife agency before you fish.