Dave Mercer is always a character!  His quick wit and joke-telling are always at the heart of any Big Molly’s evening at Aikens Lake.  Here is a clip he put together of a blooper filmed during this August’s Call of the Tundra.  It stars our guide Dave, fishing with one of the Tundra contestants.  We don’t know if this clip makes it onto the main show which airs tomorrow at 7PM Central, but it’s worth watching here nonetheless.  Enjoy!

For the second year in a row “Toyota’s Call Of The Tundra” was hosted at Aikens Lake Wilderness Lodge. This televised tournament was shot on August 21-23rd this year. Five lucky Prairie dealership Toyota patrons pitted their angling skills against one another in hopes of catching the keys to a brand-new 2009 Toyota Tundra Truck. (See newsletter item: http://aikenslake.com/newsletter/index.php/2009/08/25/2009-call-of-the-tundra ).

Broadcast by Global Communications, this year’s edition is set to air on Saturday October 17th at 7:00pm in all Western provinces. Those of you unable at tune in to said channel, not to worry, like last year we will be including a copy of the tournament in our yearly mailout (December). If we don’t have your mailing information and would like to receive our information bundle, please forward your coordinates to fishing@aikenslake.com or call 1-800-565-2595.

Who will be the lucky winner? Tune in and check it out!

We are back in civilization now after another great season at Aikens.  Thank you to everyone who came to visit us this summer.  Despite the economic worries in our industry (as well as in most industries), the a fishing trip at Aikens proved to be too strong a “lure” for many people and we ended up being quite busy once again this year.  It’s a testament to the quality of the “Aikens Experience”, and we have our staff that thank for that!

We are at the end of our 4 year run with our guide motors, so when we left camp earlier this week we brought with us our fleet of 50hp Mercury motors.  You can expect to see brand new engines on the back of our Lund Alaskan guide fleet next summer.  However, we are currently in the process of doing our due diligence so we don’t know which brand of motor will be coming back up with us next spring, but you can rest assured they will be reliable, quiet, powerful, and as ecologically efficient as possible!

We wanted to let all our e-readers know that we are currently selling the 50hp engines at a reduced rate of $2,500 each.  Similar engines sell for $3,000 to $3,500 but we are mainly interested in selling them quickly so we can gameplan the next generation of engines coming in.  We have already sold a few through word of mouth, and we are already down to 9 engines left.  The Mercs were bought at the start of the 2006 season and were on the Lund fleet for 4 summers.  They were the same ones used during our 2006 “PWT Celebrity Shootout” and the cowlings still bear the stickers and names of the walleye pros who participated in that event! As you know, we have maintained them very well with regular oil and filter changes, grease, and because our guide crew is so good on the water all the bottom ends and props are in great shape!

Specs:

2006 Mercury 50hp four-stroke engine

Tiller handle

Power tilt

Electric start

13-pitch prop

Please call/email us if you are interested in one or more of these engines (204-237-5253 or 800-565-2595).   Thanks,

Pit & Julie Turenne