When do salmon run in the French River, Minnesota?

The run corridor The mouth The end of the mainstem

The colour is this river's run stage today, read off Minnesota DNR 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.

Peak run · Coho salmon as of 30 September 2026

The French 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, chinook salmon 1 September to 31 October and coho salmon 1 September to 31 October. The peaks: pink salmon 1 September – 30 September, chinook salmon 1 September – 30 September, coho salmon 1 September – 31 October and lake-run brown trout 1 October – 31 October. Steelhead opens 1 March 2027, 152 days out. Windows are calendar guidance curated from Minnesota run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

12.6 corridor miles · Lake Superior · windows curated from Minnesota guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the French River, in date order

The window is Minnesota'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
Pink salmon	1 August – 30 September Aug–Sept · calendar	1 September – 30 September	Tail-off
Chinook salmon	1 September – 31 October Sept–Oct · calendar	1 September – 30 September	Peak run 31 days left in the window
Coho salmon	1 September – 31 October Sept–Oct · calendar	1 September – 31 October	Peak run 31 days left in the window
Lake-run brook trout	1 September – 31 October Sept–Oct · calendar	not stated	Tail-off 31 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 March 2027 – 31 May 2027 Mar–May · calendar	1 April 2027 – 31 May 2027	Not yetopens in 152 days