When do salmon run in the Kewaunee River, Wisconsin?

The run corridor The mouth The end of the mainstem

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 · Chinook salmon as of 30 September 2026

The Kewaunee River is running now. As of 30 September 2026 the loudest claim on it is chinook salmon at peak run, 31 days left in the window — chinook salmon 1 August to 31 October and coho salmon 1 September to 31 October. The peaks: chinook salmon 1 September – 30 September, coho salmon 1 September – 30 September, lake-run brown trout 1 October – 31 October and steelhead 1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027. Lake-run brown trout opens 1 October, 1 day out. Windows are calendar guidance curated from WDNR run-timing prose and are month-grained, so the edges are the month rather than the day.

26.1 corridor miles · Lake Michigan · windows curated from WDNR guidance · page built 30 September 2026

Every run window on the Kewaunee 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.

Species	Window	Peak	Today
Chinook salmon	1 August – 31 October Aug–Oct · calendar	1 September – 30 September	Peak run 31 days left in the window
Coho salmon	1 September – 31 October Sept–Oct · calendar	1 September – 30 September	Peak run 31 days left in the window
Lake-run brown trout	1 October – 30 November Oct–Nov · calendar	1 October – 31 October	Not yetopens in 1 day
Steelhead	1 October – 31 May 2027 Oct–May · calendar	1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027	Not yetopens in 1 day

What opens next

Lake-run brown trout — 1 October 1 day from 30 September 2026, running to 30 November, peak 1 October – 31 October.
Steelhead — 1 October 1 day from 30 September 2026, running to 31 May 2027, peak 1 March 2027 – 30 April 2027.