Well I guess that depends.

Most of the time I'm pretty antisocial like RICH G and I really don't want to even see another guy, let alone fish next to him. But, I also know that takes hard work to get yourself to a spot like that, and I'm getting too damn lazy to avoid crowds anymore. If you fish amongst crowds, it's like Jeffhead said, you get out of it what you bring to it. Blue creek is plenty crowded, but it's not a snagfest most of the time. Just LOTS of people, and LOTS of fish kegged up in a short distance. If you keep your eyes open, and watch the guys in your immediate vicinity, you can fish without hanging up with anybody most of the time. Put one doughball in the middle, though, and it all becomes a tanglefest.

Besides, when you're told there's a BBQ at your house this coming weekend, and you'd BETTER have a fish for the BBQ (or party, or whatever) then sometimes you gotta put your fish-face on and head to the combat zone.

The WORST thing about combat fishing? Listening to the DOUGHBALLS talk like they're master steelheaders because they landed a couple fish. Some goober with a surf rod and a 3-oz teardrop lead tied directly to his mainline with a knot, and tipped with a #4 spin-n-glo on a #2 hook is standing there telling everybody about his "expert" technique . And of course the crowd thinks he's God since he already has his limit........those are the times you wonder why you even drove down there in the first place.

If you can take it, there's no doubt about your chances to catch fish at these crowded terminal fisheries. Only question is, can you take it??