Time is the most valuable commodity that we have. Contrary to popular belief you can’t save time or buy time. Once it’s gone… it’ gone!

My work, faced with an impending snow storm, decided to let us go home a few hours early so I decided to take advantage of the situation on my way home. I drive by Spring Creek every day on my way to and from work. Yes, I know.. I have a rough life..ha ha! I’m also one of those fly anglers who always has a rod, gear and clothing riding shot gun for such situations. Game on!

The particular brown trout had great coloration and spot patterns. He’s not the biggest fish of the day but I had to take a quick pic before slipping him back into the water. He responded to the egg pattern that I was fishing with my Euro Nymping set up.

I love fishing during snow storms. I’ve done it many times over the five decades that I’ve lived on this earth. It absolutely never gets old! The snow was coming down so hard that it was literally piling up on my reel.

A silvery rainbow trout fall to a squirmy worm that I tied over the weekend. The water was high and still rising. Definitely the right conditions to give a squirmy worm a try. I like pink or red colored SW’s but typically about any color will do.

One of many brown trout I caught this day. It’s amazing how different the colors and patterns are on this particular brown as apposed to others I’ve caught. This one looks like a stocked fish. It would have had to swim up the creek a few miles because the creek I was fishing is not stocked. Down flow about 3 miles is a stocked creek. This one liked my “blood dot” egg pattern.

When do you stop fishing during a snow storm? Once more than three inches of snow pile sup on my hat, I call it quits. I think I’ve reached that milestone here. I caught a ton of trout