Tyler — GOOD. Water normal stain; 85 degrees; 0.13 feet above pool.
Summer fishing patterns are holding steady. Night fishing is good for catfish and crappie in the lights. Crappie are good using minnows and jigs on brush in 16 feet of water.
Catfish are fair in 12-16 feet of water shrimp, and liver. Bream are good on red worms off the barge and throughout the lake. Bass are good out to 16 feet of water with topwaters, spinnerbaits and crankbaits.
Report by The Boulders at Lake Tyler. Martin Creek — GOOD. Water stained; 92 degrees; 0.
51 feet below pool. Bass are good early and late afternoon on lipless crankbaits and plum colored worms fishing the hydrilla. 8XD crankbaits off points over brush in 15-25 feet.
Crappie remain good to excellent suspended in timber that is 20-30 feet with minnows and pintail jigs work great. Large catfish are being caught below where the crappie are on live bait. Report by Hambone Guide Service.
Palestine — SLOW. Water slightly stained; 91 degrees; 0.13 feet below pool.
Hot weather continues to impact all species, making for early bite periods, often the bite is over by 9 a.m. Blue and channel catfish may continue through the day on stronger baits, such as shrimp.
Some hybrid stripers have been caught by trolling redneck rigs with 2 inch Pet spoons over humps and roads. A large factor has been the thermocline, which continues to be high in the water column, only about 13 feet down, less in shallower water. Jim Beggerly, Jim’s Fishing Lake .