8T,

I do the 'whole thing' regularly on a couple of rivers in Colorado during the summer.

In the correct environs, the technique is deadly and fun to fish.

I tend to 'see' almost all of my strikes. Occassionally I'll hook one on the 'set the hook at the end of every drift' hookset. Once in a while I'll forget what I'm doing, stop paying close attention, and feel a strike.

What makes this seem to 'work' for me, and it was hard to do at first, is to set the hook whenever you think there might possibly, even remotely, been some minor or infinitesimal hesitation, stop, or 'odd' movement of the line. I'm likely to make fifty or more 'hooksets', for every fish I actually hook. Two or three on each cast, at least.

Hooksets are free, and you earn points towards future fish for every one you attempt where there isn't a fish....

Good Luck!

Buddy