Crappy end to my deer season - break in up Chilliwack Lake Road

bcsteve said:
Why wouldn’t they? Bait cars are placed in high crime areas as indicated by statistics, hopefully the op reported the incident to the police.
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I would be shocked if they would place a bait car in a location like this though. From my experience (watching the videos online, not stealing them) they're typically set up in more urban/suburban places... Besides, catching one ###### won't solve the problem as a whole...
 
Sucks, sometime it's better leaving the vehicle unlocked and nothing in it at all (at least nothing you care about). If someone is gonna break in their going to do it anyway, might as well save yourself some money and a cold ride home.
 
City Boy said:
Chiliwack is getting known for druggies.

I have had a couple break ins and few acts of vandalism over the years to my car (not Chiliwack). In Canada, according to my corrections buddy, no one does time for property crimes. One time they took my gym bag and left the belt, bag and crap all over the underground .... not worth the $300 deductible for the window. I couldn’t allow myself to keep the water bottle after I found it; I just imagined the thought of some druggie putting it to their lips and into the trash it went.

Liberals told me it was my fault for locking the doors or else they wouldn’t have broken the window.
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I had my boat stolen from my driveway in Chilliwack.... car broken into in broad daylight in Maple Ridge.... truck broken into in White Rock.... it's everywhere. But Chilliwack does suck.
 
you guys gotta get outta that lowermainland. I left almost 10 years ago and there is zero regret.
just got our property assesment and things went up a surprising amount...... get out while you still can and while there is still reasonably priced property up here..... better hunting too LOL
 
reality is most guys can't raise a family and afford to go on 10K fly in trips every 2 years. On the other hand it would be a good thing to budget and save for to do at least once.
I'm guilty of spending some pretty big coin for fly in and jet boat river trips for steelhead in my younger years..... money i should have spent on more responsible things LOL but i certainly don't regret it nor the memories and photos.
 
Suther said:
I would be shocked if they would place a bait car in a location like this though. From my experience (watching the videos online, not stealing them) they're typically set up in more urban/suburban places... Besides, catching one ###### won't solve the problem as a whole...
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They are placed where they were needed. It’s usually only a few that causes 99% of the problem. From my experience....
 
If memory serves me. Chilliwack River Road. Where the baily bridge crosses the river, turn right go up the dirt road. In the ravine I got a deer. When your about 1/2 - 1 Km from bridge,would park my Bronco in the woods, go up 300M to a plateau. About 500 x 800M. Elk hang out and where my buddy and me bagged a small black tail buck. Also where I did hear an unusual sound. To the south a dirt road crosses and beyond that the forrest goes up to high country. Late 80's-early 90's.
 
If only you had a 400 acre hunting paradise in sask to go to....

But kidding aside. That blows. Go up this weekend and wear your best camo and do a different style of hunt. With a good quality camera of course...
 
45ACPKING said:
you guys gotta get outta that lowermainland. I left almost 10 years ago and there is zero regret.
just got our property assesment and things went up a surprising amount...... get out while you still can and while there is still reasonably priced property up here..... better hunting too LOL
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I plan to get out of town eventually, but my job is here so for the time being I'm stuck. Next summer or the year after I'll be looking to get a new job but right now I'm only 4 months into my career post-university so until I hit that 1-2 year experience mark my mobility is limited. At two years I should be able to get a job in the interior without trouble but nobody wants to hire someone as green as me that doesn't live locally.
 
QM 86 said:
If memory serves me. Chilliwack River Road. Where the baily bridge crosses the river, turn right go up the dirt road. In the ravine I got a deer. When your about 1/2 - 1 Km from bridge,would park my Bronco in the woods, go up 300M to a plateau. About 500 x 800M. Elk hang out and where my buddy and me bagged a small black tail buck. Also where I did hear an unusual sound. To the south a dirt road crosses and beyond that the forrest goes up to high country. Late 80's-early 90's.
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Very few deer left, and the last elk were poached....I mean legally hunted out by stewards of the land.

Chilliwack can also thank Mayor Gates for her wonderful ideas towards methadone clinics and revitalising the downtown core with shelters, along with the dark rumour of the homeless being bussed out to the Valley for the 2010 Olympics.
Plus, we're the end of the Valley. After Chilliwack, you get real BC winter.
 
there are still elk in the valley , and moose too.
I know the area QM 86,87 is referring to very well.
Back at the end of the 80's you could still get right to the back end of chillwack lake by car. There was a bridge back there that the canadian forces demolished but the trails still existed. We used to paint ball back there and for years it is where me and my friends would camp and spend our summers. Before the end of the road, back a km or so there was a turn that took you wayyy back towards skagit. Moose and elk were around back then and still are today. I have friends that see the elk in the winter months steelhead fishing and 4 or 5 years ago one friend got pictures of cow and calf moose in the flats below the allison pools..... where I myself have also seen cow n calf moose on more than one occasion.
 
Pretty bad when the urban dictionary list this - Chilliwacked : to be ripped off or stolen from,,eg " I put down my backpack and it was Chilliwacked"
I remember when this was a great community to raise a family in,,very little crime and no drugged out zombies wandering the streets, urban sprawl has reached the eastern valley,,and it sucks
OP, sorry this happened to you :(
 
45ACPKING said:
there are still elk in the valley , and moose too.
I know the area QM 86,87 is referring to very well.
Back at the end of the 80's you could still get right to the back end of chillwack lake by car. There was a bridge back there that the canadian forces demolished but the trails still existed. We used to paint ball back there and for years it is where me and my friends would camp and spend our summers. Before the end of the road, back a km or so there was a turn that took you wayyy back towards skagit. Moose and elk were around back then and still are today. I have friends that see the elk in the winter months steelhead fishing and 4 or 5 years ago one friend got pictures of cow and calf moose in the flats below the allison pools..... where I myself have also seen cow n calf moose on more than one occasion.
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Uhm, yeah. This ain't the '80s. That was 40 years ago. I wonder what the listening posts on the border would make of paintball these days? Allison Pools is 20 klicks from the lake, and used to be accessed by goat path, instead of pavement. Moose indeed exist up there, in extremely limited numbers. Hopefully no one pops them off too. The way to the Skagit is 5 klicks along the base of Mt Edgar.
Source: 4th generation Chilliwackian, that still hasn't explored the entire valley, even with my father's maps; y'all can thank him for the Pierce Lake trail:).... :( said lake is now a bit of a garbage dump.
 
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