Lets see... I caught a lawn chair on Lake Mexia, and about a 10lb soft shell in the same day. Caught a freshwater mussle on Belton trolling for whites with a 1 oz bucktail jig. Also on Belton, a perch trap with 3 big crawfish in it in a cast net, and in the same day a 4+ lbs largemouth in my cast net. A beaver on Belton on a Pop-R, and a nutria on the Lampasas River wade fishing for whites. On Lewisville I caught a C-rig with the Zoom lizard, weight and everything plus about 30 yards of line that was a backlash someone cut off. Seems like I catch more random stuff than fish.

My buddy hooked a billfold with $30 in it fishing off the pier at Eagle Mountain 30 years ago, on a flea fly.
I hooked a snake one day. Had to cut its head off to get my hook back. He wrapped his tail in the rocks and would not come loose.

w/r creek a bat on a 1/16 oz tube jig ...w/r lake using dough bait , i got a hit reeled it in only to find out it was a coot hooked under his wing .

When I was probably 13 I was fishing with my grandad and I casted my spinnerbait out about the time a couple coots came flyin out of the cove we were fishin and my spinnerbait landed right on one of thems back! I didnt know what to do so I was just lettin it take out line and then when it hit the end it jerked the poor guy to the water and my spinnerbait just fell off! I will never forget about that!

great stories keep em coming!

Was fishing down below Kaw dam in Okla. with surf rods fishing for flatheads. I reeled in my surf rod to put on fresh bait only to find that my hook had somehow hooked inside a slip sinker hole and there was a line going thru it also. Thought about just throwing the line in, but decided i would get the trash out of the area, so I started pulling in the broken line by hand. To everyones surprise, that on the bottom of that broken line was an 18 1/2 lb. stripper. And that was the only fish i caught for the whole weekend. Now that was the very first and also the last stripper I have ever caught.

I caught a whole bunch of weird things like coke cans, beer bottles ,pond weeds,sticks other peoples gear,rocks...

one time i was fishing and got caught on a old line and at the end was a 10lbs catfish, dead

Chickenwilly oscar are all over the place here not bad eating FIGHT REALLY GOOD to, 2lb oscar ware youR @ss out to
gators all the time... hmmm...... walking cat fish is up there,,ye.. walking cat fish it is

I foul hooked a big shad on a spoon a few months ago. I thought I had a sand bass on but after a second or two it was dragging across the top of the water and the fight stopped. About 40 feet from landing it a hybrid blew up on it and almost yanked the rod out of my hand. I guess technically I caught the hybrid on live bait.

I caught a bag of spent bullet casings once under the I30 bridge on Ray Hubbard. Sealed in a ziplock with a bunch of rocks.
Also caught my HS princile in the mouth one time. Tried to throw him back, but he was hooked good and had a life jacket on. lol

Craziest thing I ever have caught was a Christmas Tree Ornemant. Someone had apparently been sinking some old trees to make brushpiles, and whoevers tree it was had missed one wooden santa. Jig hook was through the rope loop that it hangs on the tree with.

Other random things

-Multiple broken lines
-Some fish in a very small pond that looked like a bass, a perch, and vin diesel had mated. Body of a perch, color of a bass, and a big scaless area on top of its head.
-Person... fishing 5 people to a two person boat is not a good idea

Back when the hydrilla was taking over east texas lakes, i was trying to burn a ratltrap over the top of a nasty patch of the stuff. Well i ended up getting a little backlash and knew getting that lure back was going to be fun. That hydrilla was so thick.

Well after about two minutes of yanking and lifting through the hydrilla i get the lure back, and a 2 pound bass.

I caught a bicycle tire covered in sea urchins while I was trolling for flounder

Caught a bra in New Jersey while fluke(flounder) fishing. Caught a Great Horned Owl in Louisiana while night fishing with a Jitterbug, totally by accident. Who in the heck would ever want to tangle with one of dem birds on purpose!

Caught a 5000c and graphite rod on Fork.
Bridge bird (blue herring) on Fork at nite.
Buzzard on a red rattle trap (buzzards can swim but not very well)
Alligator on a jig on Richland Chambers (thought it was dead till it swam off)
My dad was a little wild with his casting (would not look before he cast) he caught my aunt in the shoulder with a fly.
my brother in law in the lip with a rattel trap.
took my hat off with a slab (blamed me for the backlash)
also lost 9 rod and reels on fork one february when i sunk my boat (lost everything)