What is the best set up for Perch fishing on Lake Michigan?

I always did best on soft shell crabs. Hard shell crab tail meat will work, but not nearly like a soft shell. Not sure how hard they are to find now though with all the vhs rules. I know you can still bring out live ones on the big lake if you can find them. The frozen ones are terrible though, they pretty much freeze rotten crabs. Only buy live ones, or if they are froze you need to know they were frozen while still alive, then they aren't too bad yet. I'd rip them in half, pull the shell off the leg section and use that on one line, with the tail on the other. The legs always did the best for me. I never fished down by Milwaukee though but I would assume it's the same there. I always did better on them, minnows and hard shells didn't compare (for me at least).