Rusty,
I'm Kinda New to the artic warrior also. I had the same problem. Open Bail, small bait for walleye worked well. When I put larger bait on it kept triping. What I tried was a paperclip, on the line at the rod tip. I only tried it once, got a flag, fish wraped a stump
I think it works so far, our pike have been aggressive. and when it hit it poped the clip off. like I said I only tried it once so far, so it's just a suggestion I'm not sure if it will allways work