There has been NO change in fish returns and weather in January. Except! - the Vedder/Chilliwack water shed, Steelhead are slowly starting to trickle in with each tide change. The Steelhead are still in the lower river between Cultas Lake crossing and Barrowtown. Many anglers are still fishing higher because of better conditions! Best baits are Roe; Ghost [...]
Please note Archery Drop-in is cancelled for December 26th. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Attn. Members: Please note that Steel Challenge on Tuesday Nights will be cancelled until January 8th, 2019. Regular membership access will be available on Ranges 4 and 5 instead. Thanks and have a Merry Christmas!
Had 9 shooters out. Next shoot December 16 Turkey Shoot. January 20 is the start of the 200 Bird Trophy, your best score each month for 8 months. Would appreciate if rifle and handgun shooters would wait until 2:00 as it's tough to hear calls for targets with the noise of rapid fire.
Our Beginners Rifle Course finished for the season. We will be resuming on January 7th, 2019. Our Drop In sessions continue, except for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. All are welcome, and families are encouraged to shoot together. All equipment and instruction is supplied. We ran our first CFSC for long guns this weekend [...]
The PPC sub club held their final Christmas fun match of the year on Sunday December 2, 2018. The December 3 match had 8 shooters attending. The weather was cold, but everyone had a great time and a lot of fun. This match included our Christmas Turkey shoot, the Oregon walk down and our man [...]
The last CQB shoot for the season was a great success. The 46 shooters had a great time on the line, and fortunately the weather cooperated quite the change, from this time last year! Sunday's ATS day was attended by 9 shooters. The blue gun drills continue to be well received, and it certainly makes [...]
Local Rivers Vedder/Chilliwack: 4 Salmon/day; 4 hatchery Coho; 4 Chinook; 1 Chum. Still a decent number of fish showing up each tide change. Best baits are jigs swim (twitching) jigs and roe. Harrison : 4 hatchery Coho, starting to colour up now but still OK! Best baits are jigs and bait - worms, roe, krill, wool and big [...]
All, a reminder, ATS is Sunday, 25 November. Range 3, 1030, for the regular shoot; pistol, carbine, shotgun. $10 drop in fee. Standard round count, 250 rnds per platform (birdshot for the shotguns). For the Veritac Alumni, if I get 2+ response from you, we will do some bluegun drills from 0830 to [...]
The British Columbia Conservation Foundation would like to invite our friends from the community to participate in our first ever Artwork Contest. This contest is open to all students grade K-12 in BC for the 2018-2019 school year. The submission should be a drawing or painting of the students favourite BC animal. The deadline [...]
The ATS hosted Veritac course was well attended, with 24 shooters on the line. The weather provided an “if it ain’t rainin’, it ain’t trainin” feel. Last CQB match of the year, 24 November, followed by ATS, on the 25 November. ECQC registration is open, for the 19-21 July, 2019; details to follow, once I [...]
Local Rivers Fraser River: - (non-tidal) now CLOSED to Chum! Only Chinook, Coho, Steelhead, Trout and Sturgeon are open! - (tidal) same as the non-tidal! Vedder/Chilliwack: Water-sheds are open for all salmonids, trout - still a 4 fish limit. 1 Chum, 1 Chinook over 62cm, all Coho must be hatchery. The river has come up and is full of [...]