When does the run start on Cattaraugus Creek, New York?

The run corridor The mouth Springville Dam — the run stops here

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

Tail-off · Steelhead as of 30 September 2026

Cattaraugus Creek is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is steelhead at tail-off, 243 days left in the window — steelhead 1 September to 31 May 2027. Lake-run brown trout opens 1 October, 1 day out. Windows are calendar guidance curated from New York run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

35.7 corridor miles · Lake Erie · windows curated from New York guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Cattaraugus Creek, in date order

The window is New York'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
Steelhead	1 September – 31 May 2027 Sept–May · calendar	not stated	Tail-off 243 days left in the window
Lake-run brown trout	1 October – 31 March 2027 Oct–Mar · calendar	not stated	Not yetopens in 1 day