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What Is Running Right Now in New York

Every run corridor New York has — 8 rivers on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario — sorted by how far into its own window the loudest run on it is.

Computed for 1 October 2026.

First runners — 7 rivers

  • Salmon River Lake Ontario · 16.3 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Lower Niagara River Lake Ontario · 14.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Genesee River Lake Ontario · 6.4 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Oak Orchard Creek Lake Ontario · 5.9 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Eighteenmile Creek Lake Ontario · 2.1 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Black River Lake Ontario · 1.5 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov
  • Oswego River Lake Ontario · 0.9 corridor miles · Chinook salmon, Sept–Nov

Tail-off — 1 river

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

8 run rivers on 2 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.

Lake Ontario — the New York shore7 run rivers on this shore, 7 inside a window today First runners
Lake Erie — the New York shore1 run river on this shore, 1 inside a window today Tail-off

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.

The rest of the run

Open the lake-run map →Every run river, with where the fish are holding today.Or get BirdTrout on the App Store