hmm lets see. last summer i caught a water moccasin on a spro frog. he made a v line behind the bait and i really couldnt see him untill he gets right behind the frog and comes up about 2 feet off the water and slammed down on the bait and began thrashing it around. needless to say he got that frog for free.
when i was young and just learning to cast a baitcaster in the back yard i had wrapped a jig around a tree branch and broken it off. a few months later my dad came inside and got me to come look at this owl in the backyard during the middle of the day. he was huge and everytime id get close it would try to fly away but couldnt. thats when i realized he had my jig snagged in his foot and the line wrapped around the branch would let him go. he wasnt very happy but we ended up getting the jig out.
last fall i was throwing a crank bait on the james river bumping bottom the whole way in when i snagged a big flounder. he was wayyyy far from where they usually are on the james but with the drought the whole river was nearly all salt water.
last but not least a couple of years ago we were flounder fishing on the chesapeake bay in my dads buddies boat. we were getting ready to change spots and had already started moving with the outboard as i was reeling in when suddenly the rod almost was jerked out of my hands. i fought and fought and fought for 25 mins till i reeled up a close to 5 foot loggerhead turtle. had him right next to the boat so i could remove my rig and save most of my line untill he surfaced and caught another breath of air and he was gone again. i ended up cutting the line that sucker would never wear down.