A narrow, deep reservoir in a wooded glen seven miles south of Edinburgh, reachable from the city in twenty minutes if the traffic is kind and the Flotterstone car park hasn't filled up. Scottish Water own it; the Glencorse Angling Improvement Association lease the fishing. Fly only, boat and bank, stocked brown and rainbow trout on a wild brown base. The reservoir is long and thin, walled by conifer plantation on one side and heather slopes on the other, and it takes the weather personally — a breeze that was friendly at Flotterstone can become something else entirely once you're halfway down the west shore. It is, for a great many Edinburgh anglers, the first water they ever fished properly, and most of them still come back.
- Reservoir
- Mixed