Stevens Creek coughs up some little ones

After running a 101 degree fever late last night, I finally agreed to go see the doc today instead of working.  Doc's office is close to work so I dropped in briefly then split.  Had to mail something and the closest Post Office is on Stevens Creek.
 
Doc said I needed rest and fishing is pretty restful so I drove over to the picnic area and tried again with the bedding fish in the cove next to there.
 
Finally figured out what they'd hit hard enough to actually hook the little buggers.  Bait wasn't doing it (though worms always work...I didn't have any with me).  Since I struck out last time with power bait and artificial worms, I figured I'd try my fly rod and some small beadhead flies this time.

I couldn't get the dark bedded fish (black crappies I think) to hit the flies hard enough to hook them.  But, if I tossed the fly a bit further out, beyond the bedding area, it would get chased by lots of small fish.

Here's what I was using:
 

 
And here's the first thing that took that fly serious:
 

 
OK, the "lots of small fish" clearly aren't crappies.  I do enjoy having a blue gill tug on the end of my line though.  Even little ones pull better than trout twice their size.
 
After landing a few like it, I retired the fly and tried other colors, styles with similar results.

I hooked a half dozen and landed 4.  I would've had more but it turns out, I broke the point off one of my flies when it snagged somewhere and I didn't notice it.  I kept seeing solid takes but couldn't land any of them so I brought the fly in for close inspection.  Ooops! 
 
I only had one fly like the one I broke but dang, it was pretty popular.  I might have to tie up a couple more like it and try again.
 
I had to stop playing around and go get my prescriptions filled...and let the little panfish go back to making more panfish.
 
I've now caught blue gill, crappie (previous outings), and trout at Stevens Creek.  Time to hunt down the bass.

I paddled around for 2 hours after work for nada. I lost my lures in my car (recovered later) so all I had was a deep diving crank bait and a crazy 8" rainbow trout swimbait. The water is amazingly clear, I am guessing 10'-12' visibility. I trolled around the entire east end of the lake and saw nothing. There was some algae blooms floating around though. I did see that big ole crap in the back of the cove across from boat launch again, gonna get that guy someday.

I wanted to pick up a couple items from FW, and had an appointment to look at a nearby house at 7:30, so I checked out the seminar for a bit. Got stood up at the house, so went over to SCR. Too late to get the boat on the water, so I did some bank fishing a good deal west of the boat launch. I wasn't getting any trout lovin' so I put on a mini jig head and grub, and assaulted the crappie. Had a couple good tugs, and actually caught two, but they were pathetically small.

I'm going to see if I can find some 1/16 maribou or bunny fur jigs. Or roll cast the fly rod and see if they'll go for a woolly bugger, as the small plastics just don't have that much life to them, though they do apparently work to some extent.

Tomorrow, I'll be bassin'. I'll try and be at the launch by 5:30.

Scott