It’s a lot of fun receiving the pictures that friends send to me. Big fish, big animals and unusual outdoors pictures fit very well within the scope of Outdoor Odyssey. This post has some big fish!

Randy Pfaff, an e-mail friend from Colorado, sent me this picture of two of his son’s friends and the very nice rainbow trout they caught in the river that runs along his property.

James Crumley returned from a fishing trip to Lake Amistad, along the Mexican border, with pictures of some big, striped bass they caught. That’s not all the story however. On this trip they were beset by gale force winds, big waves and miserable, scary conditions that finally settled out, enabling them to snag these big ‘uns.

This is the biggest of the bunch at twelve pounds!