When do salmon run in the Days River, Michigan?

The run corridor The mouth The end of the mainstem

The colour is this river's run stage today, read off MDNR run-timing guidance. Where along the corridor the fish are is not modelled here — only the sixteen rivers the staging estimator covers carry that. Drawn 30 September 2026, north up, and it is a map of the river rather than of the lake it runs from.

First runners · Chinook salmon as of 30 September 2026

The Days River is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is chinook salmon at first runners, 31 days left in the window — chinook salmon 1 August to 31 October, coho salmon 1 September to 30 November and lake-run brown trout 1 September to 30 November. The peaks: chinook salmon 1 October – 31 October, coho salmon 1 October – 30 November, lake-run brown trout 1 October – 31 October and steelhead 1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027. Steelhead opens 1 October, 1 day out. Windows are calendar guidance curated from MDNR run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

28.1 corridor miles · Lake Michigan · windows curated from MDNR guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Days River, in date order

The window is MDNR's curated run-timing guidance placed on this year's calendar. The stage beside it is this site's reading of that window against 30 September 2026 and nothing more — it is arithmetic on a date, not an observation of the river.

Species	Window	Peak	Today
Chinook salmon	1 August – 31 October Aug–Oct · calendar	1 October – 31 October	First runners 31 days left in the window
Coho salmon	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	1 October – 30 November	First runners 61 days left in the window
Lake-run brown trout	1 September – 30 November Sept–Nov · calendar	1 October – 31 October	First runners 61 days left in the window
Steelhead	1 October – 31 May 2027 Oct–May · calendar	1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027	Not yetopens in 1 day