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I am a little ADHD, so I don’t fish one spot very long. We spend most of our time on the move trolling trying to pick up active fish. We have NOT spent much time fishing deep though. When we go in early June we typically don’t fish any deeper than 20 feet and we fish as shallow as 3 or 4 feet on the flats. Have you ever tried trolling deep running cranks on Gull Rock? I have thought about this but have not taken the time to do it. Maybe worth a look. Have most of your bigger fish on Gull Rock come out of deeper water?
Remember it’s late Sept when we’re up there, but ALL of our bigger fish have come out of deeper water, and during the day.
I’d assume if you’re out there at night they would be in shallower.
We were hitting such a high percentage of fish off jigs with live bait that we did little trolling or use of hardbaits.
Also with trolling it was to hard to follow the contour of the bottom, points and such seem to be better fished jigging for me, you can troll them, but not as accurate.
They did work, but we only used smaller raps and such, had I had deeper divers I might have tried them, maybe tail dancers or reef runners, anything that was life like and would dive to 25 fow or deeper with a larger size.
A number 11 deep diving taildancer with get down usually about 25-30 foot, and a 800 series deep diver reef runner will be about the same, maybe try a couple of these in a smelt color and perch, I might get a couple in one size down also.
Be careful, if they hit bottom good chance you’ll lose them, I learnt the best way to jig up there was with the jig about a 1/2 to 1 foot off the bottom, same for lures.
Been my experience they seem to hit more if they up a bit off the bottom too.
I found that the locals were pretty closed mouth about where the big ones are, and the resorts will send you where there’s fish to be caught and that’s smaller fish.
Maybe not accurate but it seems most the people on Gull were tourists on a fishing/vacation not diehard fishermen.
That may be why you don’t see/hear of a lot of big fish?
Most on vacation don’t seem to want to spend the time to put that 10# walleye in the boat?
If you have the boat for it, maybe even hit Red, it’s a big lake so it’s a bit harder to fish, but there are some very big fish in that lake.
You can just run up the Chukuni river, try casting for northerns on the way if you like, hit the weed lines along the edge of the river or deeper drop offs.
This is where we had the best luck early in Ontario 
and started to recall the spots we had caught our biggest fish on the lake. turned out that out of all the spots on the lake we took fish only a few of them ever produced larger fish(over 25″). over the last few years we have targeted these spots and some new spots very near them and have started putting a few fish each trip at or around the 30″ mark, this was something we hadnt done on this lake before we took a hard look at what we were doing!