For the most part, that meant trolling lures or herring. From what I saw, there were only a couple of boats mooching a cut-plug herring. For those die-hard moochers, the thought of trolling is unthinkable. It took me years to consider doing something other than mooching. There are a couple of methods, both having to do with trolling, to minimize having a bunch of hardware attached to the end of your line.
Moochers know how fun it is to play a hooked salmon with little or no weight on the line.
A method I've found to be effective over the years is to fish a cut-plug herring straight off a downrigger. You can fish just about any weight line and still have a blast once the fish pops the line out of the downrigger release. If this doesn't appeal to you, you may try a trolling spoon attached to a downrigger release. The trick here is to run the standard flasher off the downrigger ball about 4 feet back. And then stack the spoon 2 or 3 feet above the downrigger ball.