[Gerry Zagorski]

You're going to stop the boat, turn off the engine and let the wind and current move the boat. Once you figure out the direction of your drift you'll want to try and start at a spot where your drift will take you over some structure like an channel edge or something.

The only time you would ever need to use your engine to power drift is when you have no natural movement or the wind is running the opposite direction of the tide. You always want your bait moving and you want it to move in the same direction of the tide so you would bump your boat in and out of gear to give it movement in the right direction.