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Lake Street Dam and Flume, Michigan
Lake Street Dam and Flume is the top of the Bear River run — 4 anadromous species stack below it out of Lake Michigan.
Open in BirdTrout45.374813, -84.960767 · Emmet County · NID MI00768. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Lake Street Dam and Flume is the anadromous ceiling for the Bear River — the top of the run out of Lake Michigan. Fish moving up from the lake stop here, which is 0.1 miles of river below this structure.
| Species | In the river | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Chinook salmon | Aug–Oct | Fish stage off the harbour through August and enter as the river cools; the run peaks in October. |
| Coho salmon | Sept–Nov | Overlaps the chinook run and holds later; peak October and November. |
| Steelhead | Oct–May | Two runs on one calendar — a fall push from October that winters in the river, and the spring run that peaks March through April. |
| Lake-run brown trout | Sept–Nov | Runs with the salmon and stays after them; peak October. |
Curated calendar guidance from state run-timing prose, not regulation and not an observation of this river on any day. MDNR run-timing guidance and Michigan Fishing Guide prose, curated.
Ceiling cited as: USACE NID MI00768 'Lake Street Dam and Flume', River or Stream Name 'Bear River', Source Agency Michigan
The structure
- Owner
- City of Petoskey Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1895
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 11 ft
- Length
- 50 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 31 ft wide
- Storage
- 150 acre-ft · 1 acre pool
- Drainage
- 117 sq mi
- Condition
- Not Rated · Low hazard potential
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
No designated coldwater reach within a mile and a half of this structure.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- Bearcub Outfitters 0.2 mi
- The Outfitter 4.0 mi
- KatFisher Bait & Tackle 28.4 mi · Cheboygan · +1-231-420-6024