well, i just did some research and heres some info for anyone else who might be interested
before striking, the snake head coils into an S shape and then strikes like a snake hitting a mouse.
After spawning the male and female snakehead will "escort" the balls of fry and at intervals "push" them to the surface to breath air. to catch them, cast a top water lure such as a size 4-2/0 popper or surface flie either to the center or to the side. what you are trying to do is aggravate the adults into attacking, so a fast, aggresive retrieve is best.
when fishing for them when no fry ball is present, fishing for them is almost identical to bass fishing
"The key to finding them is in slow water with lots of vegetation. We're talking the exact opposite of a pristine trout stream, more like a scummy warm-water ditch filled with weeds, or a flooded backwater loaded with vegetation. The fish is able to breathe air and that helps it survive in water with low levels of oxygen, which means it can tough it out in murky eutrophicated water that is heavy with algae and pollutants.
In South Korea, serious snakehead anglers almost exclusively use frog imitations. Yet among the Korean bass fishing crowd that reported hooking into a stray snakehead, nearly all of them were caught on a type of soft plastic lure, usually a big worm, lizard, or salamander worked near thick cover.
The snakehead diet varies and they are opportunistic hunters. They will feed on bluegills, small carp, crayfish, a drowning mouse, large terrestrials like beetles, and fluttering dragonflies touching the water's surface film. For casting flies, the best choices are bass poppers, swimming frogs, large streamers, and of course; the classic woolly bugger". excerpt from www.basspro.com