I was casting a white foam spider on Lake Weatherford today near the power plant inlet. There was what looked like a crested flycatcher bird sitting on the steel wire that spans the inlet. I had already been through that area once and was passing back by reasonably close so I wasn't being stealthy at all. I cast toward the inlets and the flycatcher swooped down and grabbed my spider. I let go of the line with my left hand because I didn't want to snag him and he dropped my spider just as he felt the resistance of the line. Anybody else ever experience anything like that?

That would have been fun to watch.

I have caught bats and a big white egret

I caught lots birds: Seagulls, pelicans on my home made wood poppers. They really went for my lure, diving from sky.

Scissor tailed flycatchers or Western Kingbirds on Lake Weatherford.

I have not caught birds, but I did catch a 25lb snapping turtle on Firestone GC in Ohio.

Only a bat at dusk. Likely a state record for bats on the fly. Pond was strictly catch and release, so I let it go.