I've trolled for landlocks using planer boards and light gear and found that to be a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind something like that but I went for walleye once trolling with heavy gear to get it down and out but all you feel reeling it in is the gear not the fish.

"Any inanimate object will just sit there until a person picks it up.
What they do with it depends on what kind of respect they've
been taught for human life"