The colour is this river's run stage today, read off PFBC
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 Sixmile Creek out of Lake Erie — steelhead. The corridor is 13.7 miles of run water over 26 NHD reaches, from the harbour mouth up to the end of the mainstem. As of 30 September 2026, steelhead is at first runners.
13.7 corridor miles · Lake Erie · windows curated from Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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
Sept–May · peak Oct–Apr
Size
Five to twelve pounds, and bigger on the Manistee-type rivers.