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Ocqueoc Falls, Michigan
Ocqueoc Falls is the top of the Ocqueoc River run — 3 anadromous species stack below it out of Lake Huron.
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What the runs do here
Ocqueoc Falls is the anadromous ceiling for the Ocqueoc River — the top of the run out of Lake Huron. Fish moving up from the lake stop here, which is 15.4 miles of river below this structure.
| Species | In the river | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Steelhead | Oct–May | The run that carries these rivers now. Fall push from October, spring peak in April. |
| Chinook salmon | Aug–Oct | Thin and variable; peak September. Lake Huron's alewife collapsed in 2003-04 and the chinook fishery went with it. Carried as a thin run rather than dropped, because fish still return to the stocked rivers — but a Huron chinook run is not a Lake Michigan one and this layer will not draw it as though it were. |
| Pink salmon | Aug–Sept | Naturalised, and heaviest in odd-numbered years — the two-year life cycle is what makes the run alternate. |
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: OpenStreetMap, waterway=waterfall, name 'Ocqueoc Falls', Ocqueoc Township, Presque Isle County
The structure
This is not a dam and NID has no row for it — it is a natural falls or a weir that stops fish exactly as a dam does, which is why it appears on this surface. The engineering fields above are blank rather than guessed at.
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
The dam sits on or beside ATLANTA MANAGEMENT UNIT, Michigan DNR.
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- Onaway Outfitters 8.6 mi · Onaway · +1 989-733-2472
- KatFisher Bait & Tackle 24.6 mi · Cheboygan · +1-231-420-6024
- Bait & Tackle Shop 29.6 mi · +1-989-742-4370