I've had many run ins with wildlife while fishing but a couple come to mind quickly. One spring afternoon I was walking in very deep grass going from one hole to another when I took one step ahead and right from under the foot I was about to step down on out flushed a female turkey with such an outburst of noise I nearly soiled myself. After I regained my composure I looked down at a nest with four of five eggs in it. Last summer I also foul hooked a soft shell turtle in the side and I thought I had hooked a large log midstream except that it was slowly going upstream. Best fight I ever had on my five weight and ended up having to just back out of the river to get it on land. My fishing buddy was coming upstream to get a picture of my "catch" when the turtle got tired of being someplace it didn't want to be, swam out into the river and broke my six pound leader like it was nothing.