The toolkit is admittedly a bit specialized. Fly boxes filled with row upon row of midges, sedges that skate around the surface like invertebrate jet skis, damsels to swim along sandy banks. We might wade lakes and ponds, or fish them from skiffs or belly boats—watercraft that, in a river, would be about as effective as a dumpster. But beyond the different tools, there’s the mindset that goes with fishing stillwater as well. On a lake, we don’t fish right to left, or left to right. We don’t fish upstream or downstream. We fish 360 degrees, up and down, at right angles and shallow angles and deep angles. Why in the world would you fish stillwaters, you ask? Because stillwaters are a world unto themselves.