BC Fishing License adventure....

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I tried to tag onto the previous thread, but could not find it.

You register with the BC Provincial Government as step one. That was fine, except when it asked me what I wanted to do "buying a freshwater fishing license" is a incorrect answer.

The correct answer is WILD (WILD). Pretty intuitive, right. It took well over an hour on hold to finally talk to a woman with such a bad accent that I had to have her repeat and slow down when talking to me. When I finally asked her what was her accent she answered "Canadian". Geez, I lived in Canada and understood everybody.

Anyway, that was the end of her help. You are then taken to the Natural Resource site to purchase the license. It asks you to input your previous license number. Then you get the equivalent of the bouncing beach ball of death forever as it dumps you into an endless DO LOOP.

I was on hold for over an hour and half, before I decided to finally LIE and say I have never had a ALIEN fishing license.

That worked!! And the rest of the process went smoothly.

There were warnings that the system is broken and all sorts of instructions were offered to NON-ALIEN's and how to deal with their issues.

For years, the US gave me a card identifying me as a RESIDENT ALIEN. Now Canada thinks I am again an ALIEN. Hey folks, I don't own a StarShip!!!

Good luck to all in your adventure.
 
Not in the towns we were traveling through....and in those areas where available only during business hours.

Once you know the "tricks of the trade" it should go smoothly. Congrats on being a "fellow Alien".
 
hmmm. I'm up in Kamloops now and had no problem with the new system; purchased an 8 day license on-line with my laptop. Yes, the old 'Angler ID' will not work anymore. They have combined their fishing licenses with the previously existing hunting license system called "WILD". But, in order to login into WILD, you need a BCeID account first. So, that was easy to set up online. Then it was easy to log into WILD with BCeID and then set up a new WILD account. Was able to purchase licences and take photos of my license with my phone, so I am good to go. Fishing has been great with chironomids, trolling Carey Specials and Leaches, and even a few travelling sedges starting to come off. Fishing a differnt lake every day. BC moto .. "A lake a day as long as you stay". And, my new custom Terry Hunt 10' wooden pram is performing very well. Life is good :)
 
I found Manitoba to be straight forward. They did away previous ID #’s so I had to start over. No problems, and I could buy 2 non Canadian resident fishing licenses for less than what I spend for my resident Oregon fishing license!
 
I haven't purchased my BC fishing license yet, but did learn that our former angler number system is replaced by the BCeID system. Being generally slow on the uptake for tech-like things, it took me an hour or so, but I finally got my BCeID number on line. So I hope buying the license goes smoothly enough.
 
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