A$$holes at Bluecreek?! You dont say! LOL! Yeah, the Bluecreek crowd can get kind of brutal long about winter run time.... The best way to handle most of those guys is to just shoulder right in there and stand your ground. Try to frown as much as possible and screaming a few cuss words at the boaters now and again never hurts. If you do all of these things, everyone else down there will think you're just as big an A$$hole as they are and maybe they'll leave you alone..... Seriously, It can be brutal down there this time of year. It's not a place you go to commune with nature or anything like that. You go to bluecreek to harvest fish and that's it. I fish it all the time and have never had any real problems yet, but just the same, I'd much rather be hiking some other river all by myself. Oh well, what do ya do? All the other rivers in the area are blown out right now and the Cowlitz is close to home and full of fish.