carp on 9" eagle, Lake Hemet, actually hooked it in the mouth.
Squaw fish, 7"Slammer, Shasta
Catfish, 12"Slammer, LMV

not an exotic, but one time I was burning the 9" Eagle at San V. and I hit a wad of grass on the surface, I ripped my bait out of the grass and when I got it to the boat and picked the rest of the grass off, there was a 2" largmouth hooked in the mouth with one point of the treble.......

I also had a very near miss from a White Sea Bass off of San Clemente on one of first baby bass 12" slammers that looked more like a Mackrel. It just missed the bait right at the boat!!