JDP1292

Alright thanks for the advice guys, I'll try that out tomorrow!

Hey all, first post here. I live in La Crosse, Wisconsin and fish the Mississippi backwater areas. However, now that summer is moving in, I'm having a super tough time catching fish. Unfortunately, I don't have a depth finder/fish locator (I'm a poor college student), and have been pounding the banks. I've been trying everything-- jigs, plastics, buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, lipless crankbaits, shallow running crankbaits, frogs, everything. I usually only manage one or two good sized bass in 6 hours of fishing, and its annoying me. Can you guys offer any tips for these types of scenarios? To give you a better idea if you don't know, all the sloughs of the Mississippi don't have much current, and cover varies.. water is really high right now so there is tons of timber, which is what I've been trying to focus on, but I just cannot catch fish. It's not even that I'm really missing them, just not even getting bites. Here's a picture of the one bass I got today to give you an idea of some of the bass we do have up here. (Was caught on a jig with a plastic crawdad trailer on a rock piling next to a bridge) I'd also like to add that I've read all the fishing articles on the website, and watched almost all of Glenn May's videos.