I suppose we all develop our very own technique of fishing streamers and that no doubt is what works for us! Obviously conditions are going to play an important part. When fishing water like your description for the Hooch what I do is fish the water in a diagonal up/across stream so the streamer hits the water, sinks a tad, and the floating line will kick up the streamer speed not only as it travels downstream but especially as it arks to the middle when reaching line length. Then the upstream retrieve adds to the possibilities as well. And a real successful streamer for such an application for me has been the Black Nose Dace.