The Spring and summer salmon sport fishing season for 2013 is closing in on us ever so quickly. It is almost mid-March and it is spring break for many people. This is also a time that avid sport anglers begin spending some time winter Chinook fishing or fishing local rivers or lakes for Steelhead and Trout. Many of us are saying farewell to winter and the many Pacific storms that often batter the west and east coast and inland areas of Vancouver Island British...
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It is the Christmas Season and winters first day has now arrived. Port Alberni and areas out to the West Coast of Vancouver Island have been experiencing some of winters grip over the past week. Temperatures at freezing or just below have created snowy type days. Winter often can mean few fishing days due to poor weather conditions. Only those hearty enough to explore and fish the water in protected Inlets and Sounds along the shoreline of Vancouver Islands’ vast coastline...
It is only mid November and many guides and avid sport fisher persons are no longer thinking about the past summer and great days of fishing that occurred on local bodies of water but are gearing up and preparing for the summer of 2013. Pre Season 2013 forecasts for local Sockeye, Coho and Chinook returns look like average returns. The big migratory salmon runs swimming to the big southern watersheds to the South look rather promising for next summer. There will...
The fall summer like weather has continued in much of British Columbia. Most Vancouver Island areas have been experiencing warm wonderful days with day time temperatures ranging between twenty to twenty-five degrees celsius. The Thanksgiving weekend saw Port Alberni at 27 degrees on one day during the three day weekend which often marks the end of summer camping and Saltwater angling. The 2012 summer sport fishing season has come to an end for most saltwater locations in British Columbia...
What a difference a day makes. Less than twenty-four hours after suffering their worst defeat of the young British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) season, the Alberni Valley Bulldogs responded with a gutsy performance, enabling the team to salvage an otherwise lost weekend.
Playing their third game in three days, and less than 24 hours after losing 7-0 to the Langley Rivermen, the Bulldogs rebounded for a solid 5-4 win over the Surrey Eagles on Sunday afternoon at the South Surrey Arena...
The Alberni Athletics men’s soccer team won their second game in a row with a convincing 7-0 triumph over Cadboro Bay FC in Vancouver Island Soccer League (VISL) Division 4A play on Saturday afternoon at Echo Minor Field.
The win moves the Athletics into second place with six points in the VISL’s eight-team Division 4A, three points behind first place Westcastle City. The locals could drop as low as third spot pending the results of Sunday’s game between Saanich Fusion FC Partizan and...
The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are 0-2 on their current three-game road trip to the Lower Mainland after a 7-0 defeat at the hands of the Langley Rivermen on Saturday night in front of 2,234 fans at the Langley Events Centre.
The loss was the second in two games against Langley this season. The first loss came when the Rivermen defeated the Bulldogs 7-3 in both team’s British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) season opener two weeks ago at the BCHL Showcase in Chilliwack.
Saturday’s...
The Alberni Valley Bulldogs two-game winning streak came to a crashing halt thanks to the Coquitlam Express. Playing before 714 fans at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Centre the Dogs suffered a 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Express on Friday night in Coquitlam.
The loss came in the first game of a three-game Lower Mainland road trip and saw the Dogs drop to third place in the Island Division, one point behind the Nanaimo Clippers who have a game in hand.
For the first time...
The Alberni Athletics women’s soccer team opened their 2012-13 Mid-Island Women’s Soccer League season with a convincing 3-1 victory over the Comox Shooters on Sunday afternoon at Echo Minor Field.
Goals by Alyssa Spencer and Shae Shepherd staked the Athletics to a 2-0 halftime lead before the Shooters got on the scoreboard early in the second half. Spencer scored again late in the contest to put the game away for the locals. Alyssa Randles was the goaltender of record for the...
The Alberni Valley Bulldogs went to overtime for the third consecutive game, and came away with their second consecutive victory, this time, a 4-3 win over the Powell River Kings on Sunday afternoon at the Alberni Valley Multiplex.
Playing before a crowd of 987 fans the Bulldogs jumped out to a 3-0 lead thanks to two late first-period markers and another tally just over 14 minutes into the second frame. But a rally by the Kings that included two goals near the end of the second period...