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Spinner rigs and bottom bouncers do the trick for a lot of good reasons;
They make a fish-attracting commotion that offers both flash and vibration
Walleyes can hone in on them by using both sight and lateral lines 
Bottom-bouncers take you down fast, they keep you in the strike zone and they let you cover lots of water in a short period of time. 
When dressed with a nightcrawler, spinner rigs offer a scent and taste that true trophies, even finicky ones, find hard to resist.  Crankbaits are great, but natural bait is tough to beat when times are tough. 
Replace the bottom bouncer with a snap weight to deploy spinner rigs at varied depths in the water column and catch suspended fish. 
You can spread baits with planer boards to cover a wide corridor and get the spinners away from noise and the shadow of the boat. 

Here's how to start;

Spinner Basics 

A state of the art spinner rig starts with 3 to 5 foot snell tied to a barrel swivel or loop knot.  Fasten the swivel to the bottom bouncer.  Shorten your leader length if you get hung up too often. 

Lindy Little Joe  X-Change  bottom bouncer

Next comes a Lindy Little Joe X Change clevis, which is the small piece of plastic that threads onto the line and holds your blade so it can spin freely.  It's designed to let you snap blades in and out fast to change colors and sizes without having to retie the entire rig.  Start with blades in #5s or #7s. Try metallics of gold, silver and bronze when the sun is shining; use florescent colors when it's cloudy or in dingy water.  Add enough beads to keep the spinner away from the front hook.  Experiment with colors to see what the fish want.If you tie your own, the nightcrawler harness should feature two razor-sharp Gamakatsu Octopus style hooks in size #4 or #2

Lindy Hatchet Blades

Stick one right in the 'crawler's nose and the other farther back so the worm swims straight to avoid line twist.   If you don't want the hassle of making your own rigs, Lindy Little Joe makes a great pre-tied one called a Hatchet Harness, each features both the X Change clevis and the uniquely-designed Hatchet blade.

On the water

Where to start?  Check with bait shops, guides and even the Internet for the latest fishing reports to see where the big schools are located.  If you can get coordinates, a Global Positioning Satellite system can take you right there.  Maps are available that feature the waypoints for places that traditionally hold fish. 
Like the general who said, "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes," don't fish until you see 'eyes on your sonar screen.  Run from spot to spot, slowing every so often to see if you can see bait fish or the tell-tale marks that signal walleyes.  That search method is a lot faster than trying to find fish by fishing.
Cover the water column from top to bottom once over a school.   Put out two lines with bottom bouncers. Use a snap weight on a third line. Watch the dial on your line counter reel to let out 50 feet of line, then add the weight and let out 50 more feet of line.  Follow the same procedure on the fourth line, but use a different-sized snap weight. The 50/50 formula lets you return to the same depth over and over. 
 

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Use planer boards to cover water from side to side.  Troll slowly from .5 mph to 1.5 mph with the waves.  Use gentle "S" turns to cover more area and to vary the speed of the baits.  Boards on the inside turns go slower, boards on the outside go faster.

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