I personally like to feel 3 - 5 tics throughout a drift which equals about 8 - 10 feet a tic. I use to be a tic every 1 - 2 feet kinda guy but one day I got lazy and didn't want to put on a heavier piece of lead the result was I caught 3 nice steelys and that rig lasted me most of the day because it was just above the snaggy rocks.