I know exactly what you mean. A bait and berley trip with my boys requires a lot more prep with all the defrosting etc, and buckets for the bait, empty bait or berley bags...and then more clean up. But it's sometimes a good way to fish with kids, as they can feel the fish biting and the rods I use are way more forgiving of mis-use than my softbaiting ones.

I quite like the hybrid of lure fishing, but catching some jack macks for livies to have out the back while drifting - essentially a very slow troll. That's quite common with good charter skippers. JW (Jonathan Watts) who used to post on here a lot, then started Northside Adventures, does that with his Little Barrier trips. So does Tony Orton out of Mangawhai.

I often have a rod ready to go if I happen to catch a jack mack on a lure when I'm targeting snaps (say, out in the anchovy workups near Rangitoto), or have a string of sabikis in my kit if it looks like there are kingies around. I just cut off the jighead and attach the sabikis to pull in half a dozen baits and keep them in the FC live well or the big lidded bucket I use to bleed kahawai etc.

I can't say I've had any great success yet, but I think it's only a matter of time doing it.