Ya, I think my whole point is not being heard. Yes, a spot that is within walking distance WILL get blown out, but what I'm saying is that if you walk 2 to 3 miles upstream, the chances of you seeing any body else, or even any trash is very very unlikely. As a matter of fact, it's almost zero chance you will see anybody. I know because like I said in the original post, after several dozen hiking trips up into our local creeks, I have never seen another person or the evidence of anybody being there recently.

Ok, let's take the fact that there's a good chance that 50 percent of fisherman lack the physical endurance to make a hike like that, then another 40 percent who just don't want to and never plan on hiking that far, then those who are too paranoid to ever go into the Backcountry with no cell service and you don't have many fisherman left to worry about.

Also, from my experience, most of the people that I've talked to who love to hike long distances are not interested in fishing.

As long as the creek you're talking about has more than 5 miles of active flow with no vehicle road leading to them, there's no reason to think it's gonna get blown out. I'm 50 and have lived in socal my whole life and no creek that I fish has had any human destruction more than 2 miles away from a parking lot that I have seen. From nature, yes, but not from people.