I haven’t ever fished your area so this may be of no help. Down here we do all our Walleye and Saugeye fishing trolling Rapalas and Berkeley FlickerShad. No fighting gear that way, I agree with you on fighting them with a bouncer or something attached it isn’t that much fun. When I was a kid and they ran up the creek here we’d fish them with ultralight gear and Blakemore Roadrunners, it was a blast.
