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Manistique Papers Dam, Michigan
Manistique Papers Dam is the top of the Manistique River run — 4 anadromous species stack below it out of Lake Michigan.
Open in BirdTrout45.966667, -86.246667 · Schoolcraft County · NID MI00377. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Manistique Papers Dam is the anadromous ceiling for the Manistique River — the top of the run out of Lake Michigan. Fish moving up from the lake stop here, which is 1.5 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 MI00377 'Manistique Papers Dam', River or Stream Name 'Manistique River', Source Agency Michigan
The structure
- Owner
- Manistique Paper, Inc. Private
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1919
- Type
- Concrete
- Height
- 25 ft
- Length
- 6180 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 80 ft wide
- Storage
- 6,000 acre-ft · 480 acre pool
- Drainage
- 1,450 sq mi
- Condition
- Poor · High 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
- Goulds Slough 1.43 mi from the dam · Cold stream (MDNR VSEC) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
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.
Open this water on the map →Every reach around it coloured by today's water temperature, with the access points along it.