You're using the wind to drift your boat and drag a carolina rig across your fishing area. You want to contol the speed of the drift with your trolling motor. Do you think you can maintain better control of the boat, speed of the drift, and contact with your bait and the bottom of the lake by positioning your boat stern into the wind and bumping the trolling motor as needed to slow the drift or bow into the wind using the same technique to achieve the same result? Ideally I like to set up perpendicular to the wind which gives both you and your partner good access to the fishing area. That works great in a light chop. But, in a stiff wind boat control is obviously more difficult but still doable. Which boat position do you think is better in a stiff wind?