'I just want them back': Sask. anglers remember 2 friends who died in car crash hours after successful fishing tournament

Todd Taylor was laying down for a nap after an early morning of hunting when a message popped up on his phone – his cousin, Steve Taylor, and friend, Cody Strass, had died in a car crash.

“I laid there and I just couldn’t process it for a minute, and then I just lost it. I couldn’t believe it,” he said.

Taylor and Strass were driving home from a weekend fishing tournament when the truck they were driving collided with a minivan on Highway 6, about 10 kilometres north of Watson, according to the RCMP. The crash occurred at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Both men were pronounced dead on scene, as well as a third man who was driving the minivan.

Taylor was living in Melfort and Strass in Pickerel Lake.