The winds are a definite negative factor in your situation.  Where I live (Central California), the way I fish worms, is pretty much just a slow drift.  Let the boat drift with the wind, or use the trolling motor on a dead-wind day.  And I try to maintain constant contact with the bottom, with the exception of a twitch-twitch-pull every now and then.  So you are constantly feeling the contours of the bottom of the lake, but when I get hit on the worm, I feel a tug----tug-tug. or if it's a little fish, I feel a shaking or rattling feeling.  And sometimes, mostly on bigger fish, it will feel like you are snagged on a log or something!  But, that's just me.  Everyone on the site lives in different areas, and fishes different bodies of water, so you just have to adjust to your surroundings.  But anyways, I hope I gave you a little bit of advice you can use.  Tight Lines, brother!    

watch your line carefully after you get your first fish you will get used to it. you will feel a tap tap and then the fish will take it our the line will start to move on its own away from you either way set it. i fish my 5" worms by casting tem just in front of the lillys and let them fall this is in about 4-5 feets of water i get the majority of my bites on the fall down to the floor so watch carefully then. hope that helps.

First, you won't feel anything accurately without a very sensitive rod (graphite). This really matters if you are working the worm across the bottom. Anyway, bluegills attacking it will hit the worm with several rapid fire taps. A bass hits with one solid tap. Point the rod toward the fish, then set the hook HARD! When in doubt (if it was a hit or not) wait two seconds then set the hook. A bass will normally swallow the worm so fast and deep, you'll have plenty of time before they can spit it out, if they ever wanted to.

Lately since I started fishing strictly Texas style (research this technique) I've has bass fighting for a full 15 seconds before spitting out the hook, and the hook was never even in the bass! The hook never made it through the body of the worm. This is why you really have to set the hook hard.

i fish worms a lot and this is my experience It goes from real aggressive pulls(especially in shallow water) to thump thump to hardly any thing at all. A big thing I always try to remember is TO WATCH THE LINE AT THE WATER LINE if its doing something like moving right or left or looks like its going slack as your reeling it in you might have a fish on also if you are reeling in and the line looses resistance put the rod tip down and set the hook a lot of times they have the worm and are swimming in the direction of the boat

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I love it when someone resurects a thread that I haven't seen yet...

What everyone said above is absolutely true.  Whne it comes to worms, or pretty much any soft plastics, slower is better.  I do like to mix up pattern to my jigging, though.  Sometimes I'll do the hop-hop motion, especially when it's cold, or if the water's a little warmer, I'll do a bit of a yo-yo technique.  If I know I'm on some bass, I'll more often than not give the bait a bunch of quick twitches to trigger a strike...Nothing extreme, mind you, I'll maybe move the worm 6-12 inches with 10-15 little twitches.  I'm basically just shaking the rod tip to get the tail of the worm fluttering.

Hope this helps!