Can't comment on how the Jersey boat mafia do it but over here boat / kayak wise in Chi Harbour we use a drogue ... find the features you want to go over and adjust according to tide and wind for initial positioning - fortunately the tide hits a max of around 4 - 5 knots on flood so you go at a fair pace with the drogue counter acting the wind (Chi is a big open expanse of water so wind can be fairly influential)
Need to setup an anchor trolly (pully system) on my kayak over the winter so its easier to deploy an anchor or drogue without having to paddle backwards and reach around ...
Most of my drifting is kayak based so I tend to longer drifts before paddling back upstream - we have a few areas where you get tide lines of differing speeds - I tend to stay in the slow lane (saves my arms!) - we get a fair amount of varied terrain, sand bars, rippled gulleys (not quite as deep as the ones we did at the waterfall ) broken ground and jap weed beds (just offshore in the mouth of the estuary we have some wicked sand bars with around 12ft differential!). Shame most of this is boat or kayak only - very hard to hit the features without a floaty device ... considered the wetsuit / skish approach but it can tend to be a busy shipping channel too :/
Need to setup an anchor trolly (pully system) on my kayak over the winter so its easier to deploy an anchor or drogue without having to paddle backwards and reach around ...
Most of my drifting is kayak based so I tend to longer drifts before paddling back upstream - we have a few areas where you get tide lines of differing speeds - I tend to stay in the slow lane (saves my arms!) - we get a fair amount of varied terrain, sand bars, rippled gulleys (not quite as deep as the ones we did at the waterfall ) broken ground and jap weed beds (just offshore in the mouth of the estuary we have some wicked sand bars with around 12ft differential!). Shame most of this is boat or kayak only - very hard to hit the features without a floaty device ... considered the wetsuit / skish approach but it can tend to be a busy shipping channel too :/