This honestly is no "fish tale" lol, so I had to get new line for my baitcaster, 50lbs Suffix performance braid, by the time i got home to spool it up it was already getting dark but i still wanted to atelast feel how it cast ya know. I walk outside cast a couple times,  one cast ended up in a tree and as the bait came out of the tree (luckily it didnt snag) in all honesty this huge owl comes swoopin down and tries to grab my bait right out of the air!! It was awesome too see!! I could literally see its feet extend out and open to grab it haha Anyone else had anything like this happen before?

I have had owls swoop down to go after topwater baits at dusk and tons of times i have had bats hit my baits while in the air but luckily none have ever gotten hooked.

 

Definitely a cool thing to see though.

Thats awesome but would really suck to actually hook one of them lol

I had a Blue Herron swoop down & try and grab my LC Sammy I was walking. I had to snap the rod back & reel like crazy to keep from hooking it. It would have sucked to hook it with all those trebble hooks!

On a trip to Florida we were fishing for any saltwater species really... All of a sudden we see a barracuda slowly following a plug, so my friend stops his bait ,we are so locked in on this cuda we didn't realize the pelican that came and took his lure... The line snapped after the bird took  little bit of line, poor guy. One good thing I saw was one guy removing a bunch of hooks from one..

Not me but a friend had a bird fly down and try to grab his topwater.

 

I don't recall exactly what type of bird it was, maybe an Osprey.

 

Lucky for my friend the bird somehow missed his lure.

 

Had another guy I know cast out and have a goose get tangled in the line as the bird flew by.

 

Lots of squawking but the goose was OK.

 

Never seen or heard of your experience but there is always a first time.

Was in the middle of a cast one time and had the wind scoop the line way up high and had a goose fly into it making me lose my lure it didn't hook the goose luckily

had an osprey plummet "full-out talons/dive-bomb mode" crawling a 7" redfin on the surface one early morning fishing a back bay area for stripers! Glad i saw him at the last second and missed his target!!

Lake Shasta back in my early days. Fishing a spook and was playing a small spot across surface and had a bald eagle swoop on fish and plug. Gave bird the fish!!!

Never an owl, but snakes, bullfrogs, bats, snapping turtles, and other assorted creatures have ended up attached to the end of my line over the years, but a beaver on 12 lb test, and an osprey who felt entitled to the 12" bass at the end of my line and wouldn't take no for an answer are the most memorable.

About a month ago I was swimming a Havoc Pit Boss on a Jika rig through some brush when I felt a bump on the lure. It just felt like I hit some brush so I kept on swimming it in. As the lure comes into view below the surface I see this dark swirling thing below my bait kinda playing with it. At first I thought it was a catfish, but when I pulled the lure out of the water the creature surfaced. . . . . it was an otter. He was a cute thing, but I'm glad I didn't sink a hook into it. . . pretty sure I would have just cut the line on that one. . . 

Lake Shasta back in my early days. Fishing a spook and was playing a small spot across surface and had a bald eagle swoop on fish and plug. Gave bird the fish!!!

 

At least you didn't give the fish the bird.