I grew up in Sekiu motor mooching, but my grandfather and his two japanese buddies used to take me out in the 60's right off the Seattle docks and we only used the moter to get there, after that it was pull 4 times and push once, wait 30 seconds and repeat. We caught more Kings than anyone out there and that is saying something as there were some real good fishermen out there, but these three had figured out how to mooch using the oars and man did it work. When they would push, they would get a bite and just let it soak, if the fish were still interested, next pull and wack.
As a kid I used to row the kelp beds off the Clallum River as long as I stayed in sight of the house! (our house was the second up from the mouth) This 10 year old had no problem catching Salmon rowing with one foot on the butt of the pole!
Oh, and when we got done fishing, we would take a long handled net under the docks in Seattle and catch Pigeons and sell them to the local japanese resturants. That was a blast catching pigeons and stuffing them into a gunny sack. Got wing wached a bunch of times, but hey for 5 cents a piece it was well worth it!