A spring-fed commercial rainbow fishery on the outskirts of Linlithgow in West Lothian, catching rainfall and groundwater on the Bathgate Hills. Two small lakes, both clear, both managed, both stocked with rainbows on a regular cycle with the occasional bigger fish thrown in to keep the regulars honest. Day tickets, tuition, open year-round. This is not the place you come for wildness — the landscape is arable and the M9 is audible if the wind is wrong — but Bowden Springs is an honest local fishery with a steady following of West Lothian anglers who just want a few hours at the end of a working day and a rainbow or two on the line. Which is, when you think about it, most of us most of the time.
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