While technique depends upon where you will be on the lake, it's 186 miles long after all, you can figure that if you're not trolling you're going to be limited.

Early in the summer, trout , walleyes and smallies will be closer to the surface and shoreline. As the weather warms, they tend to move toward deeper water. Trout fishing is more trolling at that time with the exception of early morning and evening.

If you're familiar with bass fishing, then you stand a good chance of whanging on walleyes and smallies. Since I'm not a big fan of trolling, I spent much of my time on Roosevelt casting-- using leadhead jigs dressed with soft plastics and tipped with a short section of nightcrawler. That approach will work on walleyes and smallies as well as the occasional trout and kokanee. I also used to do fairly well casting crankbaits to the shoreline and then working out from there. Smallies also are suckers for topwater lures such as the Pop-R.

Keith