Heading back up to the BWCA mid June from EP 70.
Gonna put emphasis on Lakers. Last year I trolled a doctor spoon or spinners off massive egg weights. caught small mouth. should I just jig this year?

You should be able to cast spoons and lipless cranks. I imagine plastic swimbaits should work pretty well too. You can also vertically jig all of these. Don't forget the chartreuse/pink ball jig with a white curly tail grub as well. Just let the stuff sink a bit before you start your retrieve.

Just drop down and slowly reel up? I go in a kayak so I usually troll to my destinations, but I'm unsure on how far down the presentation went. I'm going to bring up an old eagle fish finder for depth reasons. Also bringing a medium heavy rod vs a medium, the big weights, raps and spoons bent the other rod to much.

Cast out as far as you can, wait 6 to 10 seconds (depending on weight of the lure), then do a slow steady retrieve (make sure the lure has its action, i.e. you can feel the wobble/vibration). I like to vary my retrieve, so occasionally pump the handle of the reel to make it faster, or slow down for a second or two. A lot of fish will follow and strike when the bait tries to get away, or slows down.

You can also hop it back, i.e. lift up sharply, then let it fall and take up the slack, and repeat. This doesn't HAVE to be done on bottom, you can do it suspended, but it usually works better when you're on bottom. If you're hopping it like that while suspended, don't let your line go taut, as it will cause a pendulum effect, you want to do it fairly rapidly so the spoon/crankbait is dancing and fluttering the entire way back, basically. You can also work a "pop" of your rod into your normal steady retrieve, not a swing of the rod but just flicking the tip a foot or two as you're reeling.

As for vertical jigging them, you'll just do the typical lift and sink to bottom on semi-slack line. Lipless crankbaits sometimes need a sharp lift to get the rattling action. You can also drag stuff on bottom with the occasional twitch, which works nicely, but you're prone to snag if you use trebles or don't give it enough of a hop when in rocky spots.