Furnace Bay

Furnace Bay is classic snakehead water, the kind of skinny, grassy, tidal bay where these fish thrive. Look for them tucked into pads, matted grass, and laydowns along the shoreline edges. Snakeheads use this cover to ambush, and on calm mornings you'll often spot them cruising the surface or holding motionless right against the vegetation line waiting for something to swim by.

Because Furnace Bay is tidal, with Havre de Grace as the nearest reference station about 3.2 miles off, tide stage matters as much as location. High tide pushes fish deep into the flooded grass and pads where they're nearly impossible to reach. As the water starts to fall, snakeheads slide out of that skinny cover toward the drop-offs and grass edges, and that ebbing tide is when the bite really turns on. Plan to fish the last couple hours of the fall for the most consistent action.

Access here is workable but modest. Mapped parking sits around 0.84 mi from the water, and the nearest boat ramp is about the same distance out, so a kayak or small jon boat gives you the most flexibility to slide along the grass lines quietly.

Go weedless: topwater frogs and buzzbaits worked over matted grass draw violent strikes, while chatterbaits and weedless soft plastics punch through cover on the drop. Spool up with 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of the slop.