My advice is make a cast and pay NO attention to it. Set your pole down and start tying hooks or looking through your buddies tackle box. Start counting the trees, watch the little dippers. Pay No attention to the cast you just made. A fish will surely strike. Now getting that hook set, well I got you partially out of the slump. "The Slump" is like a golfer that --do I dare say it with the "Shanks"