Are you sure that you are trolling in productive water? 90% of the lake has only 10% of the fish and 10% of the lake has 90% of the fish. We trolled spinner and worm or sucker strips or crank baits to find fish, but once we found them we worked over those areas hard with jigs. We had one 1/2 mile stretch up in Canada where nearly all of our 25" and over fish came out of. They aren't always where you think they are either. Back when I was scuba diving I went looking for walleyes out in the 15 and deeper water. Not finding any I went into shallow water to see some pan fish and found the walleyes in less than 5' of water backed in like buses under logs with just their heads out of the direct sunlight.
