Fishing near Airdrie, Scotland

Set in East Ayrshire, Airdrie is a Scottish town. The population runs to roughly 36,390. In order of distance: Hillend Reservoir a shade over 4.5 miles to the east, Callendar Lake a shade over 12 miles followed by Long Loch a shade over 19 miles to the south-west. Harperrig Reservoir answers to the pipe rather than the rain, so the level moves oddly. Some winters cap these and some do not. Edges go first and the middle never sets hard. Most of these sit behind a wall. Stony ground fishes better than mud in the cold. The first on the list, Hillend Reservoir, measures about 282 acres. Hillend Reservoir is the one with a mapped slipway. Across East Ayrshire, recorded fish include Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout and European eel. You have a mixed set of waters to pick from. Anything you fish here counts as East Ayrshire water, so read the county rules first....