Sour grapes, trolling is fishing, and its got to be done right to produce fish. I used to try to be a "spoon plugger" but it was too much work at times. Living just a few miles from lake michigan we trolled a lot.When I first got down here it was to fish for stripers,I had the penn reels dpwnriggers.and trolling boards and mast,Got rid of almost all of it. What ended the trolling was when my auto pilot quit, and 1200 bucks wqs too much money for me to spend with a good conscience. You just keep on keeping on,that world record SMB was caught trolling, and if that record is ever boken, it will be knowledible troller who does it.