Eden Springs, in central Scotland, holds the usual stocked crew plus the gaudier members of the family — blue trout and tiger trout among the rainbows and browns. Tigers are the brown-brook cross, sterile, handsome in a tartan sort of way, and they fight like they've something to prove. If you want one rather than another rainbow, give it something to chase — a small lure or a weighted damsel pulled with a bit of life in it. They hunt, where the stockies will sit over a static buzzer all afternoon. The fishing itself is straight stillwater work: read the wind, find the food, match the depth the fish are working. It's a place that gives up its fish to patience and observation rather than to brute casting, and it fishes best when the sky's grey and the water's cool. The novelty fish are a bit of fun, but a good wild-feeling brown off the margins is the real prize.

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