GOOD. Water slightly stained; 58 degrees; 0.93 feet below pool. Water temperatures have now begun to dip into the upper 50s. Fishing remains generally good, you just have to work around the shorter bite periods and the weather. Some fishing that is often overlooked by Lake Palestine anglers is right in Tyler, rainbow trout. This fishing can often provide some relief from wintertime cabin fever and the not-being-to-able-to-get-out-there blues. It is also a very good way to get the youngsters into fishing. These potentially short fishing trips, shorter attention spans of the youngsters, being in town and with shorter prep-and-go time, often get results faster. In Tyler, the fishing is provided from late November to about March, with 2 trout stockings, around Thanksgiving and New Years at Broadway, Faulkner Park and Glass Park/Woldert Pond. Both ponds provide easy parking and walk-up bank fishing. Most productive is bait fishing, with canned corn or Gulp paste baits, using medium or medium to light rods with open face spinning reels loaded with 6 pound or 6 pound equivalent diameter braid, 5-6.5 feet. Kids will be able to feel the bite and the fight, and can form the basis for their fishing experience. Many towns in Texas have this program, provided by the TPWD, and the program and details can be found within this website. Report by Jim Beggerly, Jim’s Fishing Lake Palestine.