I fish mostly in the Adirondaks of NY where beautiful ponds abound and BIG Brookies rule. The moving water gets worked over pretty good and as far as being alone goes, forget it. I can do short or long hikes into ponds anywhere and have them all to myself. It helps having a Hornbeck 17lb Kevlar canoe but we used to do it with one man rubber rafts. All the same I love stillwater fishing!