Stillwater · Mixed · Edinburgh, GB-SCT

Loganlea Reservoir

Loganlea Reservoir in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, showing calm water and the characteristic twin outlet towers.

Loganlea is the wild one.

Closed season · Trout
Minkie · 6–10
Closed season
Season reopens 2026-03-15. Try elsewhere.
Closed — confidence not applicable today.

Loganlea Reservoir is often best in spring through autumn.

What moved it
  • WindSW 20 km/hModerate breeze · Gusts to 43 km/h
Today's fly
Minkie
Minkie6–10
Retrieve, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Estimate
Wind
Moderate breeze · Gusts to 43 km/h
SW 20 km/h
N
SW
from the south-west
Wave40 cm chop
Water temp6.0°C
Air temp0°C
CloudBroken
Pressure1013 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

No gauge on this water — readings are regional estimates from weather, not a live gauge.

Head to
Wind driftSW wind
South-western end

A southwesterly has held for 7 hours, running colder than the water (3°C air against 6°C water). The end it blows into is taking that chilled surface water, so try the sheltered south-western end instead — off the back of the wind, where the undertow returns food along the bottom. That chill sits in the top of the water, though, and the bed is slower to feel it — on a bottom bait it is the undertow, not the temperature, that puts you at this end. Treat it as a tiebreaker between good swims rather than an override — features and angling pressure usually count for more.

How to fish it · for Trout
When
May to August
Where
Start with Minkie (6–10) — on the point. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely.
The plan
Plan A

Start with Minkie (6–10) — on the point. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely.

Plan B

Slow down everything. A booby on a fast-sinking line, left static, can pick up deep fish.

Watch for

Keep an eye on changing conditions — wind shifts and cloud breaks can trigger short feeding spells.

Bank

Bank-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.

Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

Hatch predictions

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

Hatch predictions

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Through the year
0–3 scale · November highlighted
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Reservoir BuzzerHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
Daphnia SwarmHatch
2
3
3
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.

Buzzer team todayfor the conditions now
Point
Bloodworm
Not in this water's box
#10
How to fish it
Slow-sink line · slow figure-of-eight, pausing to let the flies hang

Fly recommendations

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Ranked for today
Trout fly box
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Condition match
74%
Cloud100%
Wind65%
Temp60%

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

Other water nearby · 5
Gallery · 2
  1. Loganlea Reservoir in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, showing calm water and the characteristic twin outlet towers.
    Loganlea Reservoir in the Pentland Hills, built to supply compensation water to mills on the River Esk.
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

Where Glencorse and Harperrig are managed, stocked, and fly-fished in the open reservoir tradition, Loganlea sits higher in the Pentlands above the Logan Burn, holding a population of wild brown trout that have been there forever and will be there after the rest of us are gone. The fish are small — a half-pounder is a good one, a pound fish is memorable — but they are honest wild trout in honest wild water, and they come to a dry fly on a June evening with the kind of enthusiasm that reminds you why you started fishing in the first place. The walk in is short but the feel is remote. On a warm still night with the midges bad enough to keep the casual tourist away, you'll have the loch to yourself.

  • Reservoir
  • Mixed
Why this score
  • Cloud cover (cloud) suits the fishery well.
  • Reservoirs of this kind fish hard at this time of year.
Directions
Seasons & zones
  • Trout 2026-03-15 → 2026-10-06
Related guides
Casting instructors near here
Booking & contacts
At a glance

Loganlea Reservoir is a reservoir in Edinburgh, Scotland. It sits at about 486 m above sea level. The species listed for this water is brown trout. The trout season is recorded as running from 15 March to 6 October. Best window recorded for anglers: May to August. Core methods listed: wet fly team; dry fly; nymph. Nearby waters in our listings include Glencorse Reservoir at 3.0 km, Threipmuir Reservoir at 3.0 km and Clubbiedean Reservoir at 7.0 km.