Mooching is about being on the bait. Mooching keeps me in touch with whats going on around me. As your winding and holding line angle, your looking around for diving birds and rips etc, instead of changing the station on your radio. I troll with Scotty's on occasion but it seems like I am always following depth contours, broadcasting in a general area to draw a salmon to me. When I mooch I am trying to put one herring where I think that salmon should be given the signs. With a small center console boat like a whaler, you can run the controls while still standing and holding a rod so motor mooching rips and points comes in to play. Sitting under cover and running electronics has its place in our current enviroment of fewer fish, but mooching in the rain and snot feels more like fishing.

2 cents.