Snakeheads can travel overland like an eel.
In Tennessee, if you catch a snakehead, you are to kill it then report it to the DNR. Under no circumstances are you to return it to the water!
Go out on the 78 to the junction of 5 and 78 just south of the highway is a freshwater lagoon with all of the bluegill and other fish you want.
You should be getting trout in lake Dixon this time of year, then when the water warms up they should be planting catfish.
I used to fish that lake a lot, your question is a lot like asking "How long is a piece of string?".
First what are you fishing for? Bluegill: small worm, or cricket , artificial Black ant pattern. Crappy small minnow suspended 3 to 4 feet down on a dropper rig. Catfish down by the dam stink bait ,liver or dead day old chick from the nearby hatcheries, figure fish 20 to 30 pounds. Striped bass, best on an overcast day with a top water lure about 5 or 6" long make sure you use robust tackle for these , striped bass have been caught there over 30 pounds in weight.
Good luck.
Lake Dixon stocking starts November first most years.
Yes it is normal for large pike to bite through braided line or monofilament, use a wire leader.
Tossing a snakehead in the weeds does not help , unless you make sure they are dead first. The little buggers can travel overland like an eel.
Some fishing tackle boxes have plastic trays, if the plastic worms are just thrown in there, they will eat right through the tray. Keep them in the bag.
Self inflating life jackets have a quick dissolving tablet something like an aspirin that holds the trigger pin back.
If these are stored in humid conditions the tablets get soft and will allow the trigger to activate. I use the non automatic kind that you have to pull the lanyard to operate. I have never had one of those go off accidentally.
If you are after tuna, starting from now to the end of September you may get into migrating swarms of Albacore.
If you are after Bluefin or Yellowfin you will have to go further out , for that you will need an overnight boat .
Check Helgren's Sportfishing for daily fish counts The Oceanside 95 just came back with Bluefin Tuna some of them over a hundred pounds in weight. Inshore fishing as you have already found out you will get Halibut, Sheepshead, Sculpin, Bonito, rockfish.
I have a fly rod built in 5 pieces, it is about 6'-0" long, the rod collapses into itself it is now about 45 years old.
The biggest use I have found for this rod, is crawling on your hands and knees to the edge of a stream with the rod collapsed then extending it over the the stream to make a cast, the action on this rod is a little stiff compared to other fly rods I own, but it beats getting hung up in the brush on your way to the stream.
Lake Lanier ,
Stripers up to 30 lbs or better. They tend to patrol around the lake in shoals, pick a promontory ans wait for them to swim by.
Remember on most piers you will be too high out of the water to use a landing net, so use a line strong enough to haul the fish up out of the water.