A walkable-from-Balerno Pentlands reservoir sitting inside Edinburgh's city boundary — which still seems implausible the first time you stand on the bank. Scottish Water-managed, mixed wild and stocked brown and rainbow trout, fly only. The water is smaller and shallower than Glencorse, the weed growth more generous, and the trout accordingly better educated. Buzzer and dry-fly fishing dominate from May onwards; in September the bank hoppers start coming down and the fishing turns into the sort of thing you could do forever if the light held. The walk out from the Red Moss car park takes twenty minutes and is most of the reason people come — bringing a rod is really just a formality.

• Reservoir
• Peat