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What fish run in the Vermilion River?

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The run corridor The mouth Wakeman Low Head Dam — the run stops here
The colour is this river's run stage today, read off Ohio EPA 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.

1 species runs the Vermilion River out of Lake Erie — steelhead. The corridor is 23.6 miles of run water over 26 NHD reaches, from the harbour mouth up to Wakeman Low Head Dam. As of 30 September 2026, steelhead is at staging.

23.6 corridor miles · Lake Erie · windows curated from Ohio guidance · page built 30 September 2026

The run species, one by one

Every species the corridor file records on this river, with the field mark that calls it at the net. Windows are Ohio's curated guidance; a species that runs twice on one calendar carries both entries.

Steelhead — lake-run rainbow trout

A chrome rainbow off the lake, the stripe faint on a fresh fish and loud on one that has wintered in the river. Two runs on one calendar: a fall push that winters in the river and a spring run onto the gravel. The fall fish are the reason a January river is not empty.

Window on this river
Oct–May
Size
Five to twelve pounds, and bigger on the Manistee-type rivers.
Latin
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Stage as of 30 September 2026
Staging, 1 day out

Steelhead in Ohio — every river with a run →

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