Paddy Lee is selling JUST SOLD one of his quads. You can can’t find the actual listing on Craigslist anymore because it’s sold! Congrats, Paddy!
The info is still here in case anyone else wants to reference what 20 year old quad with low klicks sells for.
2006 Polaris 500 HO Fuel injection 2300 kms
Winch, skid plates, suspension protection plates, heated handlebars and thumb grip, cargo rack rails.
Engine oil, transmission fluid and gear oil changed last summer ie less than 100km ago.
It has only had 2 owners – Paddy persuaded his buddy to sell to him 4 years ago. It hadn’t been used for 12+ years and was always stored inside. It had 300 kms on the the clock when Paddy bought it. I can vouch for the fact that Paddy’s pretty careful with and takes good care of his gear .
He’s only used it on logging roads and occasional trails. It’s a good bike in great condition but he bought a newer one that goes faster 😉
Full price includes delivery after purchase is completed, within 100 km ferry’s extra.
Give Paddy a call and keep this thing in the club. You can use it this spring and in the fall when we go for whitetails and mule deer.
The federal Minister has not yet made a final decision on the Salmon Allocation Policy. That means this is still an active file—and public input still matters.
There are town halls taking place this weekend in Langley and Langford. If you’re able to attend, it’s worth your time. Lower Mainland members can attend Langley, and those with contacts on Vancouver Island should encourage participation in Langford.
Why This Matters
The Salmon Allocation Policy sets how salmon are shared between recreational, commercial, and First Nations FSC (Food, Social, and Ceremonial) fisheries.
Changes currently under consideration by Fisheries and Oceans Canada could significantly alter that balance. For recreational anglers, this may mean reduced access to salmon fisheries moving forward.
This is not just about opportunity—it’s about how access to a public resource is managed, and who gets to participate in that fishery over the long term.
More Than Just Fishing
Recreational fishing in British Columbia supports local economies across the province—from tackle shops and guides to accommodations, fuel docks, and small businesses.
Restrictions to access don’t just affect anglers; they ripple through entire communities.
Langley Town Hall Details
Event: Salmon Allocation Policy Town Hall Date: April 18, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SouthRidge Fellowship Church Admission: Free and open to the public
What You Can Expect
The Langley session will focus on:
A clear breakdown of what’s being proposed
How it differs from past allocation approaches
Potential impacts on recreational access and local economies
Conservation considerations and the role of anglers
Practical ways to engage with elected officials
A Note on Participation
Whether you agree or disagree with the direction of the policy, this is the stage where public input can still influence the outcome.
If decisions are finalized without meaningful participation from the recreational community, the result will reflect that absence.
If You Can’t Attend
If you’re unable to make it in person:
Stay informed through trusted sources
Speak with your MP
Share information with others in the community
Bottom Line
This isn’t just about this season. It’s about long-term access to salmon fisheries in British Columbia.
If you care about that future, now is the time to pay attention—and, if possible, show up.
Cliff Tang is organizing a Steelhead Derby on Saturday April 18th, 2026.
There will be a 50/50 Draw and a $ 100 Entry Fee on the Vedder River.
Cliff is not sure how people will get money to him before the event but he will figure things out.
Please send an email to RSVP to clifftang@shaw.ca so that he knows who to expect and can tell you where to meet him.
Cliff has been trying hard to get more fishing events -from derbies to seminars – happening for a few years now. The brutal truth is that we have not supported him enough and we need to do better.
That starts with going to the actual derby, so if you want to do some fishing on the 18th, email Cliff and give him some support.
Watch this space for more info about the upcoming Tunkwa Lake Derby Cliff is also quarterbacking.
We had a really great turnout for our April 14 Club Meeting at Wildeye. The topic was bear hunting in preparation for the two club bear hunts coming up, but it really turned into a fantastic knowledge swap.
We started with the bare minimums needed to legally and safely hunt bears, and after that the organizers guided the discussion through all the logical sub-topics.
What developed was a really great Q&A based off that discussion between some very experienced bear hunters and those of us who are just getting started.
By the time we were done we probably had 30 people at the tables and standing around.
We’ve been using a WhatsApp group for day to day communication and two funny things happened. First, people who I assumed had met each other because they’ve been interacting on WhatsApp for months actually got a chance to meet face to face, so that was great, and the second thing was that the WhatsApp group jumped to 28 members.
If you’re not in that group you can join it with the QR code.
Dana also posted a great video to Instagram that tells more about the event.
The North Shore Fish and Game annual fry releases coming up. These are lots of fun for kids, and are very educational.
The first is the North Shore Fish & Game Club hatchery release on March 31, 6:00-8:00, at the hatchery at Heywood Park. You can contact Brian Comey for more info.
We will be meeting at Wildeye Brewery, Monday, March 9, at 7:00. Wildeye was the site of the recent townhall, is owned by one of our club members and is located at 1385 Main Street, North Van.
There is free parking along the west side of the building. We will grab a couple tables and start soon after 7:00. The Directors have some good news to report in terms of plans for 2026 as well as some club acquisitions, so make sure you come out. Once club business is concluded we’ll relax, socialize and have a few beers, cocktails or libations of your choice!
The members of the North Shore Fish and Game Club are deeply saddened by the passing of two long time club members, Allan Milligan and Manfred Krettek.
Allan Milligan
Allan was one of the early members of the North Shore Fish and Game Club, joining soon after the Club’s founding, serving as President in 1970-71. Beyond his involvement with the Club, Allan also served as Trails Manager at Maplewood Flats. In recognition of his exceptional service to the community, Allan received a Special Recognition Award from North Shore Community Services.
On behalf of all members, past and present, we extend our deepest condolences to his family, including Laurie, his son and NSF&G club member. He will be greatly missed and fondly remembered.
Manfred Krettek
Manfred came to Canada in the early 70s from Czechoslovakia, settling first in Toronto and later in Vancouver. He was a furniture maker by trade, an ardent fisherman (both salt and freshwater) a great chef, bread maker and accomplished artist. His friends were shocked by his sudden passing.
Manfred leaves behind his loving wife, Olga, as well as a daughter, Christine. He had many friends in the club and will be missed. Unfortunately I could not find a picture of Manfred but the picture below is an example of his artwork, courtesy of Derek and Linda Hardy.
BCWF will be holding 6 SAP town halls across the Lower Mainland.
Chilliwack – February 17, 2026
Pitt Meadows – February 18, 2026
Mission – February 19, 2026
North Vancouver – February 24, 2026
Langley – February 25, 2026
Coquitlam – February 26, 2026
NSF&G are involved in promoting and organizing the North Van event, at Wildeye Brewing, and the Langley event, at Dead Frog Brewery.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is proposing significant changes to the Salmon Allocation Policy that could reduce public access to salmon and impact recreational fishing opportunities across British Columbia. These community town halls are your chance to hear what’s being proposed, understand how it could affect anglers, local economies, and conservation, and learn how to take action.
One of the two changes being considered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is the elimination of the principle that salmon are a public resource to be managed for the benefit of all Canadians in its new Salmon Allocation Policy.
First Nations are asking DFO to eliminate this principle from the policy that will guide allocation of salmon among First Nations Food, Ceremonial and Social fisheries, First Nations treaty-based fisheries, non-Indigenous recreational fishers, and commercial fisheries.
The changes proposed are a radical shift in the principles that govern conservation and access to public resources, removing existing public fishing opportunities, and curtailing public access to salmon.
This past fall many NSF&G members travelled to the east Kootenays to hunt whitetails and many of us were very successful (thanks to all the club members who helped make that happen for other club members!)
Some of the success took place in the Kootenay’s CWD hotspot, close to Cranbrook, so CWD, a disease occurring far from North Van, is directly linked to freezers in North Van.
Here’s why.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal, infectious disease that affects the nervous system of deer, elk, moose, and caribou. It’s caused by abnormal proteins called prions that build up in the brain and other tissues. The symptoms are weight loss, poor coordination, excessive salivation (drooling), lethargy, stumbling, and trembling. People who have seen CWD infected deer often describe them as being like zombies.
What the Heck is a “prion”? A prion is a misfiled protein that then induces more misfiling in normal variants of the same protein. They start with a normal protein mutating onto a prion, and then, after mutation, causing other proteins to misfold, and that misfolding leads to cellular death.
Prions are responsible for prion diseases, known as “transmissible spongiform encephalopathy” (TSE) affecting both humans and animals. We know the names – CWD for TSEs in deer, mad cow disease when it happens in cows, scrapie when it’s found in sheep, and Kreutzfeld-Jacob disease when it occurs in humans.
(Click on the image to go to the Mayo Clinic for more information).
CWD spreads through saliva, urine, and other bodily fluids and other deer become infected through direct contact with an infected animal, its feces or by consuming contaminated food or water.
It’s tough to kill the CWD prion. To destroy it requires sustained heat for several hours at extremely high temperatures (900°F and above). In other words? Once it’s in the environment we are not destroying it. Prions can survive in the environment for many years
It gets worse. There is no known cure for CWD. If a deer or other ungulate gets it that animal will die, and before it dies it will spread the prions and other deer will die, but not before they spread the prions even further.
Where Did It Come From? The exact origin is unknown but i was first noticed in 1967 in captive mule deer at a US government research facility in Colorado that had previously held domestic sheep. The suspicion is that scrapie prions mutated into CWD prions. It wasn’t identified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) until the 1970s and was first found in the wild in Colorado in 1981 in elk.
CWD made it to captive herds in Saskatchewan in the mid-1990s, to wild cervids in Saskatchewan by 2000, and it has now turned up in 5 provinces (Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC). It also occurs in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
CWD has also been found in reindeer and moose in the United States, as well as in Canada, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.
CWD infected deer are obviously sick once the infection has progressed, as the photo above shows, but not all CWD infected deer are that far along, so testing is vital before consumption.
Are CWD Infected Animals Safe to Eat?
There has been no known transmission of CWD to humans, but experts continue to study the possibility of cross-species transmission. Recall the to the best of our knowledge the CWD prion mutated from scrapie, a disease that affects sheep, a completely different species than deer or other cervids.
On the other hand, although CWD has been detected in predators’ feces, demonstrating that predators kill and eat CWD infected deer, there is no evidence that predators have actually been infected by CWD.
It’s probably safe, therefore, for humans to eat CWD infected deer, but……
What is BC Doing About CWD?
The first thing BC has done, (with help from the BCWF, which NSF&G is a proud member of) is declare a CWD “hot zone”.
The BCWF (of which we are a proud member) contributed to the organization and supply of freezers to drop off locations to collect heads for CWD testing. All of the NSF&G club members who hunted these Must last year went through the head drop off process, and some even ran into Cait Nelson, Wildlife Health Biologist at the Ministry of Forests and the person in charge of BC’s CWD response. There is lots of information from the Provincial government on how to handle CWD deer here.
So far the testing program has come up with 5 CWD positives, all in the Kootenay hotzone. A 200 deer cull is currently underway around Cranbrook and Kimberly. The goal is not so much to eradicate the deer population but to get a useful sample size in the areas that are CWD hot spots to determine the infection rate. The government also says it will help reduce population density, but that’s going to take a lot more work and is still to come.
It’s worth remembering that not all of these deer are the typical urban or “town deer” that we sometimes imagine. Most are deer from the large agricultural zones that are close to town. They have few predators, little hunting pressure and lots of food. Lots of deer close together leads to more infection, but those herds also send out young males who will then spread the infection.
I (Rob Chipman) and a BCWF representative on the Provincial Hunting and Trapping Advisory Table (PHTAT) . PHTAT is a group of stakeholders that meets with government on a regular basis, and our next meeting is at the end of this month. CWD will be coming up (as will proposed updates for LEH).
I was recently chatting with a buddy of mine and we discussed a presentation made by NSF&G club member Dr. Ken Ashley at the 2024 BCWF AGM where he talked about the effect of climate change on small lakes and what that means to anglers. My pal mentioned that he was seeing a lot of green matter in lakes that he fished and I suggested that it might be a result not only of climate change, but also logging contributing to higher water temperatures that throw lakes out of balance and make it much tougher on fish.
Now, full disclosure: neither my buddy nor I are smart, well informed people, but my friend didn’t think there was much logging in the Chilcotin, and that if there was a lot of it was probably salvage logging.
As we all know, salvage logging is something we have to do, right? I mean, we can’t just leave those beetle or fire killed trees standing and going to waste, can we?
Eddie Petryshen has a different opinion. I know Eddie from X, but in the real world Eddie is a conservation specialist who works with Wildsight in the Kootenays. You can find him on Wildsight’s webpage here and on X here.
Eddie Petreshyn putting stump size in perspective
Eddie works to improve logging practices on the ground and at a provincial level as well as on old growth protection, caribou recovery, recreation and land-use planning. He’s an East Kootenay local yokel, a conservationist and a human and coffee powered adventurer fighting for the land, water, and critters.
What follows is one of his recent X threads, reprinted with his kind permission:
SALVAGE LOGGING IN BC
The climate is changing rapidly here in BC. As climate chaos continues to become more extreme we will see more fires and more forest disturbance from insects like bark beetles. But let’s talk about what happens after fire or beetles. Let’s talk about salvage logging.
The
@bcndp recently further incentivized and prioritized industrial salvage logging. So what’s the problem and issue?
Salvage logging is logging that takes place after a natural disturbance.
This logging is heavily subsidised as logging companies will pay low stumpage rates for the trees logged. The province incentives logging as companies are on the hook for reforestation and the province wants to maximise getting burnt timber to mills + pellet + pulp operations.
BC’s ecosystems evolved with disturbance. Our remaining primary forests are a result of the complex natural + diverse disturbance regimes. From wet ancient stands that evaded fire or large disturbance for 1000s of years to open forests and grasslands that burned every 3-5 years.
It’s important to acknowledge natural disturbance is about survivors, it’s about a legacy of living organisms and dead materials. It’s about variability even in severe burns. I think the concept of complex early seral forests is an important piece of the puzzle.
Naturally disturbed forests provide complex early seral environments with more species, complexity, snags, greater biological legacies and unique understory vegetation. Salvaging removes that habitat complexity, which is not recovered with replanting.
There is a growing body of evidence that salvage logging interferes with natural ecological recovery (see the linked paper here).
The authors of that report ^ describe salvage logging as a tax on natural ecological recovery.
Salvage logging can degrade the soil’s ability to retain moisture and regulate temperature, which limits regrowth and encourages erosion, sedimentation and even landslides. The impact on fish-bearing streams can be catastrophic.
It’s a question about how we want to treat water. This study quantifies just how much we impact water quality by salvage logging. “For all parameters evaluated, salvage-logged catchments were more heavily impacted than either burnt or unburnt catchments” (paper here)
Finally, is salvage logging an effective strategy to mitigate endemic bark beetles outbreaks?
Increasingly we’re realising that burnt forests and the ecosystems they produce while they recover are incredibly important. If ecosystem resilience is the priority we should let these forests recover on their own for the most part.
