If you are going to go fishing for steelhead, follow the rules or pay the price.
A Lower Mainland angler learned that lesson the hard way, at the expense of his bank account.
A post on the BC Conservation Officers Facebook page said officers were patrolling the Alouette River where they checked three steelhead anglers and found one man using a barbed hook – which is not allowed.
The angler was issued a federal contravention ticket to the tune of $575.
