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When do salmon run in the Iron River (Bayfield County), Wisconsin?

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The run corridor The mouth Iron River Light and Power Company WP182 Dam — the run stops here
The colour is this river's run stage today, read off WDNR 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 Iron River (Bayfield County) is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is coho salmon at peak run, 31 days left in the window — coho salmon 1 September to 31 October, lake-run brook trout 1 September to 31 October and lake-run brown trout 1 September to 30 November. The peaks: coho salmon 1 September – 30 September, lake-run brown trout 1 October – 31 October and steelhead 1 April 2027 – 31 May 2027. Windows are calendar guidance curated from WDNR run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

23.0 corridor miles · Lake Superior · windows curated from WDNR guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Iron River, in date order

The window is WDNR'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.

SpeciesWindowPeakToday
Coho salmon 1 September – 31 October Sept–Oct · calendar 1 September – 30 September 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 September – 31 May 2027 Sept–May · calendar 1 April 2027 – 31 May 2027 First runners 243 days left in the window

The year on this river

Coho salmon
Lake-run brook trout
Lake-run brown trout
Steelhead
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inside the window inside the peak. The outlined column is Sep.

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