I had a pidgeon fly through my line on a cast. I left the bail open hoping it would shake the line off. It didnt. I engaged the reel and the bird fell probably 60 feet into the water. He went skiing while I reeled him in. Cut the line away from him and he flew off.

aside from that, a compound bow, a car, thong, sex toy on a crankbait

How about 4oz Tuna Poppers?

I once caught an animal skin purse

HOLY [censored]!!! In the summer by my house the bats will chase ur lure as soon as it comes off the water... My girl friend freaked one night when it happened cause the bats will swoop down and dang near hit you when you go to cast... I've been terrified this was gona happen

old Zebco with a dead coot on the end of it

bullfrogs, turtles, a worm on a t-rigged worm

a 2in. shad on a 1oz spennerbait-in the mouth (which was about the same diameter as the hook)

I've wish I could find the picture, but I caught a smallmouth with no upper jaw.

How about a 2 foot gator deciding he wants your 7" tequila sunrise powerworm for lunch? Thanks to a stick with a forked end I was able to pin it down long enough to grab the neck and pop the offset hook out

A duck as a kid, seagull at corpus christi and tried for whatever reason to catch a gator in mississippi kept throw my worm on him but he was sleeping in the tree in the water.

I caught a rock on a red eye shad reeled it all of the way to the boat

No lie! An owl on a pop-r, A bullfrog on a jig across the top of some moss and a huge snake on a spinnerbait !

I caught a 5lb Hybrid hooked in the mouth - Dead as could be. - No clue how that happened. It made sense because it was in the trinity below hubbard

I also caught a goose this year on Athens

how did that goose taste?

DUde I woulda let the gator have it...

Caught a 6'+ Italian with a yellow magic on Joe Pool last year. I felt bad for him since he had to spend upwards of half an hour getting the hook out of his knee, so I just gave him the little yellow magic. Told him that if he could stand to dig it out of his knee that long, he deserved it! ( buried well past the barb into the side of the knee ).

HA, the goose would have been my meal for that day!

Fishing a small golf course pond last year with a lil beaver on a shakey head jig, felt a bump..set the hook, the fight was on for about 20 min. Finally got it surfaced, and I had snagged a 60 lb turtle in the back of the shell. Normally turtles dont fight so hard, cause I seem to catch a lot if I'm catfishing. But not this guy, since he was snagged in back of shell, he was able to swim in the opposite direction with full force.

Also of note: multiple snakes on topwater frog.

My brother snagged a abu garcia 6500C on a cheap rod at T-wok one time, decided to give it to my grandfather....who had lost it overboard the season before. True story