This is from the BC Adventure Board:

We all need to remember to be safe out there. No fish is worth our life.

Live on Peach and was at the river an hour or so after the drowning. The cops were still
gathering info at the time. Apparently the man was fishing on the riprap on the north side of the Vedder barely 100 yards downstream from the Peach Road parking lot (the same spot where 100's of people have been lining up to fish all season). A couple of guys who had been fishing near the man weren't sure how or why he fell in...but said that his neoprenes were "so bouyant" that he couldn't seem to get his head out of the water as he was pushed downstream. The water is still quite high, fast and dirty. When they got his body out below Lickman he was dead. These guys thought he was older than the radio news which reported him as being "in his 40's from Abbotsford".
Very sad and kinda surreal day as folks continued to clamber all over the rocks trying to net these monster springs as the police were collecting evidence re the death.
Couldn't shake the thought all night that someone's dad/husband/son went fishing today and never came home.