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the CommuterTranswest Air Inflight Magazine Complimentary Spring 2002 Don Freed Finds His Voice The Four Fish Fantasy CEG Energy gets Bullish Recipes for Great Summer Eating Commuterthe Issue Two, Volume Three Transwest Air Inflight Magazine Spring 2002 – C WELCOME! T OKED YA U` TANISI! ANIN SIGWA! EDLÁNETÉ! Welcome aboard Transwest Air. THE FOUR FISH FANTASY Fulfilling the ultimate fishing fantasy: Summer of 2002 marks Transwest’s second full summer of opera- four of the best, in a month, with both rod tions. Our team has been getting aircraft ready and enhancing 2 & reel and flyrod. service levels for the busy season ahead. We have implemented a number of customer suggestions on how to make your travel experience more enjoyable, everything from flight schedule improvements and magazine content, to better sandwiches in our lunch boxes. We hope we have listened well. FINDING HIS VOICE Singer/songwriter Don Freed leads the The month of May will mark the arrival of our SAAB aircraft, a children of northern8 Saskatchewan in versatile 34-seat turbo prop that features a flight attendant, over- a quest for their own music. head bins and onboard lavatory. Transwest will use the aircraft for both scheduled service and charter customers. The Saskatoon airport terminal will be completed by late sum- mer. The new terminal is a vast improvement over the old facil- THE HONEYMOON IS OVER ity, but the final stage of construction will make traffic flow Dwindling supplies and escalating demand through the building a challenge at times. Leave yourself a few make Roger Magneson of CEG Energy extra minutes to avoid frayed nerves. 13 Options bullish on the natural gas market. Northern Saskatchewan offers some of the best fresh water fish- ing in the world. Its pristine parks, waterways and lakes are unparalleled anywhere in the world. American travellers will enjoy the excellent exchange rate, and Canadian travellers - why not save the exchange rate and consider a holiday in your own SASKATCHEWAN BOUNTY back yard. Great travel ideas are available from Saskatchewan Saskatoon berries and fresh fish are what makes summer17 great. Here’s a Tourism or the Saskatchewan Outfitters Association. couple of recipes to kick off the season. Thanks for flying with us. Have a great summer! NEWS FROM TRANSWEST Fishing camp season and the new Saab 340A. The Commuter is published quarterly by DHS Publishing, Inc. The opinions expressed within this publication are not those of either the publisher or Transwest Air. Copyright DHS Publishing, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in whole or in part, without written consent of publisher. If you are interested in submitting an article or have comments to the editor, please email us at [email protected] or send typed, double- spaced copy to: DHS Publishing, Inc., 112-112 Research Drive, Saskatoon, Sask, S7N 3R3. We are not responsible for unsolicited material. For advertisement information please call 306-652-4956. Jim Glass Pat Campling Jr. Contributors: Christina Weese, Beverly Fast, Jeff Arthur, Lal Ingram Managing Partner Managing Partner Cover photo: Sean Francis Martin Publications Mail Canada Post #1880373 Arctic Grayling - three-and-a-half pounds, 24 inches Walleye - six pounds, 25 inches Northern Pike - 20 pounds, 40 inches The Lake Trout - 30 pounds, 34 inches Four Fish Yes, fishing the pristine waters of northern Saskatchewan is exhilarating enough in itself. But for the angler who wants more - the one who needs to fulfill the ultimate fishing fantasy - Fantasy there are a few ground rules. The two absolutes in fishing are closeness to nature and the thrill of a challenge. The nature part is in the bag the instant you set foot in northern Story by Jeff Arthur Saskatchewan. Now for the challenge: haul in trophy-sized samples of the four finest Photography by Sean Francis Martin, Dark Horse Studio fish in the province. Do it within a month. And to prove your mettle as an all-around angler, do it with both rod and reel and a fly rod. We’ll call it the Northern Saskatchewan Four Fish Fantasy. Walleye June is the peak month at the three days to a week for a maxi- Bisnard Lake Lodge, even though mum of 16 guests under the Full just as many fish are caught in July American Plan.There’s a two-to-one Catch-and-release has taken and August.The last few years have guest-to-guide ratio. Fishing for hold across most of northern seen more Walleye in the three to Northern Pike is busiest in June, four pound range removed from but Cree River Lodge accommo- Saskatchewan, yet the Walleye, or the lake, and fewer of the larger six- dates guests through to mid- Pickerel, is one fish that begs to be pounders. September. eaten. Zacharias has great By fishing mainly along the bays regard for Walleye as and weed beds of 30,000-acre “People com- a fragile resource and Wapata Lake, Cross gives guests the ing up here want says,“Bisnard is a naturally unique experience of watching the to make sure they’re well-stocked lake.You won’t find Northern Pike follow the bait right going to get their Walleye feast,” a drive-in lake anywhere in western up to the boat.With Cree River says Dan Zacharias, co-owner of Canada with better fishing.” Camp sitting just 300 yards from Bisnard Lake Lodge, a drive-in/fly-in the mouth of the river, and with a camp 300 kilometres north of Northern Pike 750-yard long weed bed nearby, Prince Albert.“Even with the five- guests have ample opportunity to fish limit, people still love coming fulfill their fantasy. here.They want the shore lunch so “Never put your hand in the water they can get that taste.” when you’re pulling a fish out of our Situated fewer than 200 yards lake,”warns Bob Cross.“These “The thrill is in the anticipation – Arctic Grayling from this spot is the aptly- In the three years Zacharias and Northern Pike, when they’re hungry, you never know when that big they’ll take a bite out of anything.” named Camp Grayling, a fly-in wife Donna have co-owned the one is going to hit,” Cross says. At the edge of Black Lake and in fishing camp built in the early lodge, they have upgraded it to an the throat of the Fond du Lac River 1950s and now owned by appealing camp capable of accom- Cross and wife Bonnie are entering “Anything that’ll make noise near sits an island measuring a little Ken Maduck.The totally mod- modating 36 guests in seven fully their seventh season as owner/operators of Cree River the top of the water will attract a more than three acres in area.As ern camp accommodates 30 photo courtesy selwyn lake lodge modern, light housekeeping cabins. the river crashes toward the lake, it people and offers a Full With a variety of packages, Lodge on Wapata Lake.That’s seven Northern Pike. And when that picks up speed and forms into American Plan. It attracts 95 per Zacharias says the lodge is accessi- summers of watching the excite- The spring-spawning Arctic big one hits he’ll come two or three rapids before squeezing cent of its business through ble and affordable to both Canadian ment of their guests as they pull Grayling is usually more active through narrow passages returns or referrals and Maduck and American guests. huge Northern Pike out of the crys- feet out of the water for it.” later in the evenings in fast-moving on either side of the small – who likes to set a ceiling of tal-clear lake.The lodge water, and yields plenty of trophy island. 22 guests at a time – knows Most people fish traditional rod and offers packages from size by late summer. Maduck esti- why they keep coming back. reel and usually catch their limit mates a 50-50 split between fly when directed by one of Zacharias’ In the summer months these twin fishing and rod and reel at the “The thrill of catching a Grayling six guides.Walleye are active strictly catch-and-release Camp chutes are full of the rowdiest fish is second to none,” he says.“He’s movers and can be difficult to pin Grayling, where even shore got that big fin in the back that down if you don’t know the lake. you could wish for: the Arctic lunches aren’t permitted. gives him tremendous power when Grayling. It has been called, you first get him in the river.Then “The Walleye is a tricky fish to “On that island you’ve got three once you get him in the calmer catch,”Zacharias says, recommend- pound-for-pound, the toughest sides of fishing available to you,” water he gets into his acrobatics ing frozen minnows as bait to mimic Maduck says.“The Grayling is a fighting fish in the world. and puts on an unbelievable aerial its main natural food supply.“You’ve top-water feeder, so if you’re using Nowhere is it more hostile than show. got to get your hook right down to anything that sits on the water or the bottom comes in just above, the Grayling when it runs the gauntlet into “When you start hammering them and go after will be jumping out of the water one right after another it’s an them.” Black Lake. to get it.” incredible feeling.” 4 winter 2001 Cross counted more than 400 after. How about twice that number right food, temperature, configura- “The intimacy of being here with a appointed amenities.