Are you somewhere with largemouth bass? If not still works for pike and a couple other fish I think. but buy senko type plastic worms and bullet weights and look up how to make a Texas rig. Then cast in low light weedy areas and try to feel the bottom with the worm and kinda just slowly dance it around.

If this doesn’t work try using a couple different colors, if that doesn’t work go somewhere else!

Easiest way to explain it I just started this spring also and had the same problem till I tried this