Red Lion Creek

Red Lion Creek fishes like a lot of Mid-Atlantic tidal snakehead water — the fish stack up wherever there's cover to ambush from. Look for lily pads, matted grass, and downed wood along the softer banks and side pockets. Snakehead will sit tight to that cover, especially on sunny days, and they'll blow up on anything that invades their space. Overcast, warm afternoons tend to pull more aggressive strikes out of them.

Because this is tidal water, the tide dictates where the fish are and how active they get. On the high, snakehead push shallow into flooded grass and pad fields to hunt. As the water starts to fall, they slide back toward the main channel edges and creek mouths, and that ebb movement is when the bite really turns on — moving water concentrates baitfish and triggers reaction strikes. Plan around the falling tide when you can.

Shore access works, with mapped parking nearby, closest about 1.11 mi from the water, so be ready for a walk-in approach. A kayak or small boat opens up more water and lets you follow the tide movement; the closest boat ramp is mapped about 3.0 mi out.

Go weedless — frogs and buzzbaits worked over matted grass and pads, chatterbaits along edges, and weedless soft plastics punched into thicker cover. Spool up with 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of the slop once they eat.