Can't help much with spots, but some things you may want to try out:
Were you fishing deep enough?
Typically (for flies at least) you want you leader to be around 1.5x the depth of the water you're fishing. Basically, you should be occasionally ticking the bottom during your drift. If you're not, lengthen your leader and try a few more casts. Keep tweaking it until you're ticking the bottom once every few casts since that'll be where most of the fish are this time of year.
Were you setting the hook on everything that even remotely could have been a fish?
Hook sets are free!
tick (what you think is) the bottom - set the hook!
bobber pauses for a few seconds - set the hook!
bobber twitching - set the hook!
Don't give yourself time to think / process what's going on or try to determine why your bobber is doing what it's doing. Just set the hook. By the time your bobber has translated a fish on the end of it, the fish is probably already in the process of spitting the hook, so the faster you're trying to set the hook, the more likely the fish will actually be hooked. Don't give it time to spit the hook - STRIKE!
It's honestly hard to convince yourself to constantly be setting the hook. But the days where I've made a conscious effort to set the hook on anything even remotely strange happening with a strike indicator are the days where I'm typically catching about twice as many fish.
Hope this helps!
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