UPDATE: The man has apparently been located and will be brought out of the bush shortly. More to come...

Search crews and Coquitlam RCMP are continuing their search for a Vancouver Island man after he did not return home from a fishing day trip on Burke Mountain Sunday night.

Pieter Kramer, who is visiting from Campbell River, was expected to return to a Port Coquitlam home where he is staying before dinner time. When he did not arrive his family notified authorities, who started searching the Munro and Dennett Lake areas at around 8 p.m.

"We've got field teams that were out all night," said Al Hurley, the search manager with Coquitlam Search and Rescue from a command post at Minnekhada Regional Park Monday afternoon. "Right now we are re-searching some of the areas we searched last night in the dark."

So far, crews have found a fishing rod but can't confirm wether it belonged to the 58-year-old missing man.

The rod has a reel and family members told search and rescue personnel that Kramer usually uses a fly-fishing rod. His vehicle was also found.

The family of the missing man informed the search crews that Kramer, who once lived in the Tri-Cities, is familiar with the trails in the area.

"It sounds like he is an experienced guy," Hurley said. "He has a lot of the tools."

The RCMP and the Talon search and rescue helicopter could be seen taking off and landing from a park near Victoria and Apel Drive in north PoCo on Monday. Crews suspended their search Monday night and resumed early Tuesday morning.

Hurley said the trail leading to the lakes was accessible by ATV until the last two kilometers, which are only accessible by foot.

"It's hike in only," he said. "It's a really rough, rough road to get there."

The choppers focused the initial part of the search on the creeks and tributaries that run down the mountain. Rescue workers said that people who are lost in the woods often follow water sources because they believe it will guide them out of the bush. Cabins located in the area were also searched.

On Tuesday searchers focused more on the Munro and Dennett Lake area. There was no new information as the Tri-City News went to press Tuesday afternoon.

Personnel from Coquitlam, Surrey and North Shore Search and Rescue took part in the search and about a dozen crew members were in the field.

gmckenna@tricitynews.com