First Light Fishing & Tackle
3-5901 Broadway V5B 2Y1 Burnaby, BC, Canada

Thank you for visiting First Light Tackle. In light of the BC Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry's order of COVID19 restrictions on November 6, we are temporarily suspending our in-person services at the shop for two weeks effective: Sunday November 8 until Sunday November 22 inclusive. We are operational and very happy to serve you by curb-side shopping and pickup, order by phone at 604-728-9718 and email at [email protected]. We will be strictly observing all safety measures including mask wearing, social distancing and regular sanitizing, and won’t be accepting cash. Thank you for supporting local small businesses, and helping us do our part in keep the First Light team and customers safe.

Thank you for visiting First Light Tackle. To do our part in ensuring the safety and well-being of our community and our First Light team during COVID19 crisis, we are temporarily suspending our in-person services at the shop effective: Sunday March 22 until Thursday April 2 inclusive.... We are operational and very happy to serve you by phone at 604-728-9718 and email at [email protected], should you have purchases you’d like to make during this time. We will have alternative product pickup and payment arrangements practicing social distancing and won’t be accepting cash. Thank you for your support for the local small businesses, please keep safe and well.

Tenkara Float fishing for chub on raining day, my kinda meditation.

Carps are stunning creatures! Come by the shop for gears and stories to connect with one.

DFO PROTEST: May 1st between 12 and 1 PM outside Fisheries Minister Wilkinson's office located 102, 3rd St W, North Vancouver Please join a peaceful protest of DFO’s decision to close recreational fishing to the retention of chinook. Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and DFO have announced large blanket closures which are an ineffective way to manage the recovery of early Fraser River chinook stocks. There is no scientific data to support the effectiveness of these c...losures. The announcement has serious and substantial socioeconomic impacts on sport fisherman, the marine community and lacks meaningful action. We’re encouraging all concerned individuals, groups and businesses to join us to protest the following: DFO is shutting down one distinct chinook fishery and user group so they can shut down another user group on completely different chinook. This closure to chinook retention will do nothing to protect the chinook stocks that need protecting. The closure has been done for political reasons and is mismanagement of the resource at the highest level! We want to make it very clear to Minister Wilkinson that to shut down the entire south coast so they can attempt to reduce First Nation in river impacts on interior Fraser chinook is not acceptable! The closures to chinook retention in our local area between Vancouver and Nanaimo include Bowen Island, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast and Gabriola Island. All of these areas have been experiencing amazing chinook fishing (for non-interior Fraser stocks). This closure is being done for the opportunity to keep First Nations nets out of the Fraser to save interior Fraser stocks. Minister Wilkinson and DFO need to recognize that the chinook salmon that are off Bowen Island and across to Nanaimo are not early Fraser stocks of concern. DFO has confirmed this through CWT (coded wire tag ) data and DNA sampling. The resulting data clearly shows that the fish we catch in those areas are not the Fraser River stocks of concern we need to protect. This is a scientific fact, not speculation. The fish we are catching are known to originate mostly from east coast of Vancouver Island streams but also the USA . There is no conservation concern for these stocks and a 1 per day chinook limit or a 1 per day hatchery chinook limit, is certainly sustainable and acceptable from a scientific fisheries management viewpoint. DFO had this in their Option B proposal and despite SFAB (Sport Fish Advisory Board) strongly recommending these options based on the science and modelling, DFO refused to implement it. We want DFO to take real and meaningful action on a recovery plan for early Fraser chinook that includes chinook predator control, habitat rehabilitation, hatchery enhancement and adequate funding of fisheries officers and habitat staff. Currently there is no plan with funding in place for these crucial actions to take place and that needs to change now