When do salmon run in the Ocqueoc River, Michigan?

The run corridor The mouth Ocqueoc Falls — the run stops here The piers — 9%

The pale water is where chinook were holding on 2026-09-30 — 91% of the run was still out on Lake Huron, which this picture does not reach. That day's gauge and lake readings were measured. Drawn 30 September 2026, north up, and it is a map of the river rather than of the lake it runs from.

Peak run · Chinook salmon as of 30 September 2026

The Ocqueoc River is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is pink salmon at tail-off — pink salmon 1 August to 30 September and chinook salmon 15 August to 31 October. The peaks: chinook salmon 15 August – 15 October and steelhead 15 October – 15 December. Steelhead opens 1 October, 1 day out. Windows are calendar guidance curated from MDNR run-timing prose; this river is one of the sixteen the staging estimator models, so the dates above are the estimator's statewide set rather than this river's own month range, and are approximate either way.

15.4 corridor miles · Lake Huron · windows curated from MDNR guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Ocqueoc 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. This is one of the sixteen rivers the staging estimator models, so the dates below are the estimator's — one statewide set applied to all sixteen, not a window measured on this river.

Species	Window	Peak	Today
Pink salmon	1 August – 30 September Aug–Sept · calendar	not stated	Tail-off
Chinook salmon	15 August – 31 October 15 Aug – 31 Oct · modelled	15 August – 15 October	Peak run 31 days left in the window
Steelhead	1 October – 31 December 1 Oct – 31 Dec · modelled	15 October – 15 December	Not yetopens in 1 day