Hi;
I am a new member and as with all sites and places I've been I find that the Canadian West is highly underrated. We took our VR business to a trade show in Germany a few years back and when the people there found out that we were Saskatchewan based the usual comment was "Why would we want to go there, Ther's nothing but prairie there".
It is true enough that Saskatchewan is one of the Prairie Provinces but there is more to Saskatchewan then prairie. Saskatchewan is over 700 miles long and the northern 2/3 are parklands and forest. We have an estimated 10,000 lakes in this province and the biggest majority are in the northern 2/3s.
Many of these lakes are accessable by car and most can be reached with a 4X4. The World Record Walleye for ice fishing was taken on Tobin Lake in East-Central Saskatchewan a couple of years ago. It weighed in at 18.6 lbs.
With a land mass as large as ours and with a population of under 1,000,000 people crowds are not a problen in most places.
If anyone would like more information on Saskatchewan you can contact me and I will try to answer all questions and if I cannot I will send you to someone who probably can.
Thank you for your indulgance.
Rivertrail
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You know, I may be out in left field on this, but somehow I think that sitting on a frozen lake for days in minus thirty, in the hopes of catching a fish may be a hard sell.
True, and my intent was not to imply that we don't have summer. Our spring, summer and fall take in May to October.
But even so, people who are ardent ice fisherpeople have a heated ice hut and they sit and fish in their shirtsleeves. And don't knock ice fishing 'til you try it. A lot of socializing is done in the process.
Rivertrail
So. Does your travel company offer these heated fishing huts? An avid fisherperson from overseas might like to know this.
It appears that I may be posting the same message twice.
Obviously not!
We do not have a travel company, we own and operate a vacarion rental in east-central Saskatchewan.
We would arrange for an ice hut if it was requested.
We try and provide any service that our guests ask for, within reason.
I'm surprised nobody has castigated you for putting an "advertisement" on the forum...but I guess I'm just used to the US/European forums where we have several "ad policewomen" who would scare the poop out of a pit bull.
I can feel your pain, at least a little..in the US there are people who think there is nothing between the two coasts but that it is simply land which you fly over.
More power to you and best of success.
Personally, having BEEN to Saskatchewan more than once I would agree with you to include that there's a lot more to it than wheat (and ice fishing).
Hi Dukey;
Actually I don't believe that I did place an "ad". I was talking about a fairly significant section of North America which I feel is one of the continents best kept secrets. Even when a reply offered the opportunity to give ourselves a plug I was careful not to mention our precise location or name. I did read the rules and I believe that I stayed within them.If I did not I would appreciate someone pointing out specifically where I was in error.
I am simply trying to point out that there is more to Canada than Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Oh, and let's not forget Banff and Jasper.
With that out of my way let me say that we in this province appreciate your support and good luck in your own endeavors.
I find it rather touching that this thread has become a liability to Saskatchewan. Somebody self-promoting, who doesn't really have anything desirable to report about Saskatchewan, only appears to reduce Saskatchewan's potential appeal to all readers.
World records for ice fishing have less tourist appeal than does the legendary Dick Assman, still perhaps Saskatchewan's most famous citizen.
So much for the art of self-promotion.
(as in: "we own and operate a vacarion <sic> rental in east-central Saskatchewan.")
Yes but where in East-central Saskatchewan? It's a pretty big place.
And who is Dick Assman.?
Are you a cousin of his?
Ah well. I was having fun, but it is over now.