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Fort Peck Fishing with Bernie Hildebrand -- walleye, pike, lakers, salmon, fishing report
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My name is Bernie Hildebrand and I live in Miles City, Montana. Miles City is approximately 110 miles south of Fort Peck Reservoir -- but you could call Hell Creek, on the shores of Fort Peck, my second home. That's where I like to fish.
I grew up in northeastern Iowa and started fishing when I was about six years old. I have been fishing ever since. I fished the small streams of northeastern Iowa for channel catfish and smallmouth bass while trips to the Mississippi River were for crappie, bluegill and walleye. Annually, I made a trip with my father and grandfather to northcentral Minnesota to fish for walleyes and northern pike. While in college at Montana State University in Bozeman, I fished for rainbow, brown, brook and cuttroat trout. As you can see, a guy's got to fish for whatever species is available. I liked them all.
I moved to Jordan, Montana, in 1980 and started fishing Fort Peck Reservoir the same year. Fishing Fort Peck was a great new challenge in two ways: One, simply finding the different trails and areas to the reservoir was difficult and two, there were new species of fish I had never fished for before. Some of the new species to me were lake trout, Chinook salmon, paddlefish, sturgeon, burbot (ling) bigmouth and smallmouth buffalo.
