'We have a plane now': Take a look inside one of Saskatchewan's most interesting fishing shacks
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When Lee Saretsky came across an old airplane on Facebook Marketplace, the decision of what to do next was immediate.
When Lee Saretsky came across an old airplane on Facebook Marketplace, the decision of what to do next was immediate.
The gutted aircraft had to be turned into an ice fishing shack.
“Buddies were easy, wife was on the fence … still might be on the fence,” Saretsky laughed. “But we have a plane now, so it’s great.”
“We just knew immediately we had to do it,” said Derek Davis, another one of the ice shack creators. “It would be hilarious, and it would actually work out pretty good for an ice fishing shack.”
For Saretsky’s wife Deidre, the purchase went ahead despite her best efforts.
“He’s always looking at things on marketplace,” she explained. “I’ve tried to block the app on his phone a few times but he just said ‘I’m buying this plane for an ice fishing shack’ and I said ‘no, no you’re not’ and he said ‘I’m doing it’ and I said ‘please, don’t do that.’”
After pitching the idea to his friends, they purchased the plane for $3,000 and got to work in September of 2022.
