It doesn't seem to be working very well for the Soviets, but personally I've used similar tactics driving a Skipjack in '68.
Sometimes the passive just doesn't cut it, particularly when fighting other submarines (especially those damned diesels), and you want to daringly bait the enemy to fire at you and reveal its general position. Then you literally charge at them, getting out of the torp's way and closing the distance with the attacker.
You have to be very careful, though: if you're pinging around and the enemy happens to be lurking in your baffles, you won't realize they've fired at you until the fish is breathing down your neck. Sometimes even too late for any meaningful evasion to take place. That cost me the USS Scamp.
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