Stub canal

Stub Canal fishes like most South Florida snakehead water: find the cover and you find the fish. Bullseye snakehead here relate hard to structure — shoreline pads, overhanging grass mats, laydowns, and any wood that breaks up the bank. On bright, calm days they'll sit tight under mats and only reveal themselves when they roll to gulp air. Overcast or low-light mornings, they slide out onto the edges and become far more catchable on moving baits.

Because this canal is tidal, with Palm Beach's Highway 704 bridge station about 1.6 miles off giving you a solid reference, tide stage matters. High water pushes snakehead up into flooded grass and skinny pockets where they're hard to target. As the tide starts to fall, baitfish get pulled out of that cover and the snakehead follow, stacking along current breaks and canal points. That ebb stage is when the bite really turns on — moving water concentrates fish and triggers reaction strikes.

Access is workable either way. Shore anglers have mapped parking about 0.3 mile from the water, close enough to walk in with a light rod bag. If you'd rather cover more bank or work a kayak/boat, there's a ramp roughly 0.7 mile out. Stick with weedless frogs, buzzbaits, and chatterbaits worked over the mats, plus weedless soft plastics punched into pockets, all on 40-65 lb braid to horse fish out of cover.