95% of the time I keep it on step and run behind the drift boats, which seems to piss the drift boats off just as much.
Most sledders are affraid to use the sled the way it was intended. If you know your river and know your sled, you will have little problem staying away from those pesky drift boats pulling plugs through a whole stretch of river and saying that 1/2 mile drift is theirs.
Now those smart drift boat guys I run into during the summer will wave me through the whole to stir up the fish and have many times seen a drift boat pull a summer run out of my wake, especially on the Sky.