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Hills guide service

Hills guide service

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Hills guide service is a fishing guide service based in Decatur, Illinois. They offer 5, 6, and 7-hour trips on Powerton, Clinton, Sangchris, and Shelbyville Lakes. The service targets catfish, crappie, walleye, and white bass, and provides all tackle, rods, reels, bait, and fish cleaning.

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Fishing Types
Catfish & Carp, Walleye Fishing

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Typical flow by month

1983 to 2026

The water at Hills guide service typically runs highest in May, at a median 730 cfs, and lowest in September, at 3.2 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 19,200 cfs, in 2008.

Typical flow by month at Sangamon River at Route 48 at Decatur, IL, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January30416 to 847
February407125 to 1,120
March648293 to 1,450
April680358 to 1,510
May730317 to 1,700
June589209 to 1,310
July17110 to 463
August4.72.0 to 46
September3.21.2 to 19
October4.01.6 to 66
November172.8 to 355
December3074.9 to 853

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 44 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Sangamon River at Route 48 at Decatur, IL (site 05573540). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

Current conditions

88Go/ 100 conditions scoreBest day: Fri, Sep 25 (94)

Streamflow

23 cfs

Above normal (76th)

Water level

2.47 ft

High today

68°F

Wind

10 kt

Gusts 23 kt

Rain chance

2%

Week ahead

Tue68°F2%
Wed65°F2%
Thu74°F1%
Fri65°F1%
Sat67°F2%
Sun76°F6%
Mon79°F7%

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF). See full conditions →

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