That happned to us, but it was a pelican! It crashed on a top water bait do hard, it went several feet underwater. It was hooked very deep and was a booger to get out. Had to wrap up the bird with a towel to keep it still and even then, it wasn't easy. That was one PO'd bird when it was all said and done.

I'm not sure this counts, but while at a tank behind my parents' house I saw a duck down the bank from me going crazy flapping in the water. I ran over and started picking it up. This was a really heavy duck... or maybe it was the ten pound turtle latched on to it's leg.

Kinda like those model airplanes with the Cox motors on them we use to fly around as kids. You know the ones, they had 2 lines that went up to the plane that controlled the flight controls. It would fly around in circles while the operater would also go in circles on the ground.

Two weekends ago, my dad was throwing a norman and caught a largemouth budlight can right through the tab on the rear treble hook. It actually looked like the mouth of a fish when it first surfaced. We had a good laugh about it. Also, I caught a big snapping turtle on my father in law's pond once. The turtle was not happy.

Caught a zebco 404 fishing reel and half rod....hehehcleaned it up and that thing still works and works very well....

Years ago while crappie fishing at Fork under a bridge,I got a good bite,"Wham" set the hook and the zebco 33 flew out of my hands into the water,I then tied a slab on another rod and was trying to snag my zebco,Then to my Surprise i snagged a very nice spinning reel,washed it and caught fish on it the same day,True!

sea gull
oyster
turtles
alligator (when i was stationed in GA)
grenel (AKA Bowfin)
other people's rigs (happens a lot)
mussel
gaspergou (that is rare for me)
half of a rod (the top half)
hats
a flip flop
and a partridge in a pear tree

I was fishing a pond today and a mussle clamped down on my weight.At first it felt like a bite. Reel in I thought it was a leave. Had to pry open to get my weight back.

How about this on Lake Belton.



We had Clam Chowder that night!

Well I have caught a couple I guess.... I caught an Oscar one time while catfishing in a local creek that I guess someone released when it got to big and I also caught a 2 pound fancy goldfish on a roadrunner about a month ago! Not a koi but a fat fantail goldfish! haha And I also hooked a purse one time that had a set of keys in it and a really fancy lookin pipe that was broken in it!.... Fun thread keep'em comin!

I was fishing Lake Texoma back in '68 near a place called "the cliffs". There was a brushy trail that led down to the water.... a good place for bass.

While walking down to the water I snagged and broke off a jointed eel fishing lure. A quick search through the foliage resulted in nothing more than ticks and chiggers, so I pressed on and tied on another lure.

Two years later I took a friend back to that same area, carring my rod, reel and tackle box down to the water's edge. Upon arriving at the bank I noticed the lost lure snagged on the end of my fishing rod, hooked with my Bayou Boogie lure...shad color.
It was the same jointed eel fishing lure that I had lost two years before, rusted hooks but otherwise unhurt.

I still have that jointed eel fishing lure, never used it again.

Chuckwagon

three weekends ago for me.. Kind of the same thing for me. I caught a budlight with a spinnerbait... the hook was caught on the lip(outer rim) of the can.. it wasn't stuck through the tab or in the hole...just on the rim.. I do not know how it made it to the boat. The good thing is.. I have witnesses to back up my story... I would not have believed it.

Funny thing. My buddy was fishing with me and broke off while using a bobber. About five minutes later the bobber came by my boat just under the water, I reached over grabed it and the 3 lb catfish on it. Then I was down rigging the same day and hooked a big stick look behind the boat tried to shake it lose and it would not come lose, so I reeled it in and noticed it was a bait caster with a 7 ft rod barley used. It cleaned up nice and now is being used. That was a great day.

On a boring day on Texoma I told a buddy (he could be a little slow) that he should tie on a weightless shad and try for a sea gull. Sure enough he got one. Sea gull are not too freindly with a hook in their beak. He reeled it in and removed the hook. When released the sea gull left something behind on his leg. He said that that would have been a dead sea gull if he had seen the deposit earlier. My dad caught an owl one time on a floating mouse.

i caught a water slide once