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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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5.0on Google, 11 reviews
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Around Hills guide service

Wilborn Creek (Group Camp)17.1 miBo Wood Campground20.7 mi10 mi
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Data Source: Recreation.gov · Public land: USGS PAD-US

Typical flow by month

1983 to 2026

The water at Hills guide service typically runs highest in May, at a median 709 cfs, and lowest in September, at 3.2 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 19,200 cfs, in 2008.

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Typical flow by month at Sangamon River at Route 48 at Decatur, IL, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)
January30416 to 847
February407125 to 1,120
March648293 to 1,450
April680358 to 1,510
May709317 to 1,660
June591216 to 1,330
July17711 to 470
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

Today · Fri

76Go/ 100

CloudyHigh 51°F, low 33°FRain 4%Wind 13 kt, gusts 23

Streamflow

5.0 cfs

Normal (30th)

Water level

1.80 ft

Air quality

16 Good

DECATUR monitor, 11 km

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF). Air quality: Illinois EPA via EPA AirNow. Preliminary data, not verified. See full conditions →

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