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See if you subs are detected. Outside the detection area it is more efficient fuel-wise to have subs linger in one hex, each sub in its own. In the areas that are routiely searched it might be better to move subs constantly to shed detection
I use the linger command as well and it give very good results. Note that you have to constantly check your subs in order to assess their current situation. Also SigInt is very relevant.
F.ex. you see a Japanese AF Coy going, let's say, in Puerto Princesa (random base). Guess what's gonna do there?  Yeah, set up an ASW base to protect some kind of ship lane. In the case, I would bet he's sending Borneo OIL/FUEL to Manila (or even directly to Onshu). My subs in the area, which is normally quite calm, no longer can enjoy the linger command and I have to reset the patrol area.
When the enemy is diligent in his ASW efforts, you have to manually set a patrol waypoint quite far away in order to let your sub move and lower its dectection, hopefully even getting out of the area searched by enemy planes.
If the Japnese is somehow decent in his efforts, he will put NavS day/night using FPs plus LBs in ASW and it's tricky for your guys.
Other few notes.
A) Check your subs' leaders. It's a very neglected thing but I have enjoyed a relatively good amount of sinkings even in 1941 with american subs providing them better commanders. Naval and aggression are the big skills here (but someone corrects me if I am wrong on this) and I tend to put higher NavSkill on subs which operate in heavily contested waters.
B) NavS. Quite obviously, your subs are much better off if they have NavS available. Sometimes it can be rewarding to put them in areas closer to the frontline and well patroled by the enemy, just to have the nice day/night NavS provided by your air assets.
C) Enemy lanes. I think many Japanese players (and I am basically a 300% Japanese player ) are quite repetitive in their logistics management. Check previos AARs from the opponent to understand how he think about logistics. Check especially his screenshots: maybe he was talking about the "Battle of Ternate", but you see his convoys from Borneo in the same image... Pay attention to SigInt.
D) Keep your patrol settings variegated and spread. I find much better use for the subs scattered all around the map (the part controlled by the Japanese, of course ). Here is the trick: if you concentrate your assets, the Japanese will concentrate his ones and you're gonna sink relatively few ships. Moreover, he's not gonna invest much in ASW in other areas.
I have usually a good amount of subs in the most common Japanese lanes, but a very relevant share of my subs do interdiction in weird areas, trying to sink very minor enemy convoys. The point here is to try to make the Japanese bleed OR to make him invest in ASW assets in forgotten areas.
Last, but not least, I like to have some sort of sub reserve. Something like 20 subs I rotate around the map to flood one area at time on top of the ones already present. Say you allocate 10 subs to Southern DEI area. The Japanese somehow responds allocating more ASW assets and so on. Now say that for a period of a month or so you allocate 30. He will for sure incurr in additional losses or, even more likely, slow down his shipments, impairing his operations in the area (hopefully). Moreover, the Japanese can even think you are going to do some major operation in the area, taking your subs as a support for some random landing or whatever.
Guess it's all about my patrols 
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