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What Is Running Right Now in Michigan
Every run corridor Michigan has — 46 rivers on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior and Lake Huron — sorted by how far into its own window the loudest run on it is.
Computed for 1 October 2026.
Peak run — 33 rivers
- Pere Marquette River Lake Michigan · 59.5 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Little Manistee River Lake Michigan · 57.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Rifle River Lake Huron · 55.0 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Muskegon River Lake Michigan · 52.0 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Carp River (Mackinac County) Lake Huron · 42.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Grand River Lake Michigan · 42.2 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Sturgeon River (Baraga County) Lake Superior · 41.3 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- White River Lake Michigan · 36.6 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Kalamazoo River Lake Michigan · 36.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Manistee River Lake Michigan · 29.9 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Big Iron River Lake Superior · 24.6 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- St. Joseph River Lake Michigan · 24.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Ontonagon River Lake Superior · 23.7 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Jordan River Lake Michigan · 23.2 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Two Hearted River Lake Superior · 22.6 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Chocolay River Lake Superior · 20.5 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Trap Rock River Lake Superior · 19.2 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Salmon Trout River Lake Superior · 18.4 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Platte River Lake Michigan · 17.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Firesteel River Lake Superior · 16.4 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Tahquamenon River Lake Superior · 16.4 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Ocqueoc River Lake Huron · 15.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Black River (South Haven) Lake Michigan · 13.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Betsie River Lake Michigan · 12.5 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Swan River Lake Huron · 11.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Au Sable River Lake Huron · 10.2 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Anna River Lake Superior · 7.6 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Tawas River Lake Huron · 6.0 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Nunns Creek Lake Huron · 5.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Falls River Lake Superior · 5.0 corridor miles · Coho salmon, Sept–Oct
- Cheboygan River Lake Huron · 1.7 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Boardman River Lake Michigan · 1.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
- Thunder Bay River Lake Huron · 1.0 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, 15 Aug – 31 Oct
First runners — 13 rivers
- Ford River Lake Michigan · 107.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Cedar River (Menominee County) Lake Michigan · 66.2 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Days River Lake Michigan · 28.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Whitefish River (Delta County) Lake Michigan · 11.7 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Pentwater River Lake Michigan · 10.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Rogue River Lake Michigan · 5.6 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Brevoort River Lake Michigan · 5.5 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Boyne River Lake Michigan · 4.0 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Menominee River Lake Michigan · 2.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Manistique River Lake Michigan · 1.5 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Escanaba River Lake Michigan · 1.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Big Sable River Lake Michigan · 1.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
- Bear River Lake Michigan · 0.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Aug–Oct
A stage is this site's reading of a curated window against a date. It is not a report from the river and nothing here has seen a fish. The live map adds what this page cannot: water temperature, flow, and the staging estimator's own distribution across the zones of the sixteen rivers it models.
Where these rivers are
46 run rivers on 3 shores, drawn one shore at a time and each river in the colour of its own run stage today. One frame over all of them would be mostly open water.
Drawn 1 October 2026. The ground is the subbasin mesh the app scores in, so the coastline is where the mesh stops rather than a separate shoreline; the mark at each river is its mouth, drawn for every river including the handful whose whole run corridor is under a mile and has no line to show.