Combat fishing, kind of like a free fire zone, What I usally do is lay down some smoke and see if I can find some place below the deadline where the fish have not been harrassed yet. Yes I said deadline because thats usaully where you find the combat zone.
one example is the toutle where the green dumps in. I went up there last september and there was just a ton of guys in there. I thought wow, I have been driving along this river for miles and not seen hardly a soul, so I turned around and found about 2 miles of water with no one on it, walked down there and made about a dozen cast and walked out of there with my 4 silvers, so solitude can be found in areas of large fish concentrations, you just have to put on your walking shoes.
peace Superfly