There is great stuff. It seems the distinction between motor mooching and drift mooching is not necessarily cut and dry- but as with allot of things in life this doesn't really surprise me to find that these two often differentiated mooching sub-techniques are very similar in form and function?! I mean heck if your fishing cut plugs your mooching I guess just because you put the motor into gear occasionally (or oars) you're not necessarily changing the whole aspect of your angling?

I wonder at one particular aspect of drift mooching over nad over and over through the years when watching the mooching contingent at Dalco and Defiance in AREA 11. I notice that allot of the anglers will not work their bait and seemingly are dangling their herring at a particular depth holding their rods drifting along not overly concerned about continually working the water column constantly. I wonder what the herring is doing when I see this. Is is spinning at this point or just dangling?
I understand several factors are playing into this but I see this quite a bit in AREA 11?
I have always scratched my head wondering what that herring is doing? If the boat is drifting at top water current speed and the bait is below you, is the herring spinning? I understand there are different currents speeds at different depths. Meaning top water current speed is more of less than say 80' down etc...
Maybe the herring is spinning away down there.... while the boat is drifting on top watet current speed?