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Clubbiedean Reservoir

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Clubbiedean is the small, quiet Pentland.

Fair · Rainbow
Kate McLaren · 12-14
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Good summer conditions for Clubbiedean Reservoir
Good wave on — drift country. A useful wave. Work the productive shore.
64% confidence
What moved it
  • WindSW 6 km/hCalm
Today’s fly
Kate McLaren
Kate McLaren12-14
Retrieve, in the film
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Calm
SW 6 km/h
N
SW
from the south-west
WaveRipple
Water temp
Air temp13°C
CloudBroken
Pressure1021 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

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How to fish it · for rainbow
When
Current conditions suit Clubbiedean Reservoir well for summer tactics. The ripple should help fish move and feed more confidently.
Where
Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely. In the ripple, a bushy searching dry (Hopper, Shipman's, Elk Hair Caddis) outperforms flush emergers — it stays visible and holds the surface tension.
The plan
Plan A

Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely. In the ripple, a bushy searching dry (Hopper, Shipman's, Elk Hair Caddis) outperforms flush emergers — it stays visible and holds the surface tension.

Plan B

If the main plan stalls, drop to a size 14–16 midge — switch to a washing-line or suspender rig and change drift line before you change food group.

Watch for

Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.

Either bank or boat

Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.

Through the year
0–3 scale · July highlighted
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daphnia SwarmHatch
2
3
3
3
2
Daddy Long LegsHatch
2
3
2
Lake OliveHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
1
2
2
2
1

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Rainbow fly box
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Condition match
79%
Cloud70%
Wind100%
Temp60%

A good match for this venue — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.

Other water nearby · 5
Gallery · 1
  1. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

Clubbiedean is the small, quiet Pentland. Set lower and more sheltered than Harperrig and Threipmuir, it has more of the feel of a proper fly pond than an open reservoir — low banks, birch trees, the hills rising behind. It's stocked with rainbows and the odd brown, fished from boats and from the bank, and on a calm evening in May the midges come off thickly enough that the rises move across the water in broad sheets. It doesn't grow fish as large as its bigger neighbours and the fishing is rarely spectacular, but it's the kind of water that suits an angler who wants a quiet couple of hours after work rather than a full-day expedition. Handy for Edinburgh and much less exposed when the wind is up.

  • Reservoir
  • Mixed
Why this score
  • Wind conditions (ripple) closely match what this water fishes best in.
  • Buzzer is in its seasonal window, boosting the chance of targeted feeding.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout2026-03-15 → 2026-10-31
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