BirdTrout
Lake Superior State Forest - Sault Ste. Marie Unit, Michigan
322,529 acres of public ground in Mackinac, Chippewa counties, managed by Michigan DNR. 85 named streams run through it, of which 56 are designated trout water — 508.0 miles of it.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is MDNR's classification of the valley segment, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water MDNR has not typed.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from MDNR and OSM ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
Open to the public on foot without a permit, as the ownership file records it.
This unit is 261 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are Michigan Department of Natural Resources's to say, and 517-284-6057 is where to ask.
Trout streams on this ground
Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. Thermal class is MDNR's classification of the valley segment, over the reaches it has typed. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manistique River | 78.9 | Warm | — | Type 1, Type 2, Type 4 |
| Carp River | 43.4 | Cool | — | Type 1, Type 2, Type 4 |
| Munuscong River | 37.3 | Warm | — | Type 2 |
| Waiska River | 18.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Milakokia River | 18.4 | Warm | — | Type 1, Type 2, Type 4 |
| East Branch Munuscong River | 18.0 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Mead Creek | 17.9 | Cool | — | — |
| Little Munuscong River | 17.8 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| West Branch Waiska River | 17.4 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Charlotte River | 17.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Little Brevoort River | 14.6 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| East Branch Sage River | 13.8 | Cold | — | — |
| Rock River | 13.3 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| South Branch Carp River | 11.7 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| West Branch Hendrie River | 11.3 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Black River Blue Ribbon | 11.0 | Cold | — | Type 1, Type 2 |
| South Branch Hendrie River | 9.4 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Hog Island Creek | 9.1 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Hutton Creek | 8.9 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Taylor Creek | 8.2 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Albany Creek | 7.9 | Cold | — | Type 2, Type 4 |
| Beaver Tail Creek | 7.9 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Upper Millecoquins River | 7.9 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Parker Creek | 7.8 | Warm | — | Type 2 |
| Paquin Creek | 7.5 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| South Branch Gogomain River | 7.4 | Cold-transitional | — | — |
| Davenport Creek | 7.3 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| McKay Creek | 6.3 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Silver Creek | 6.3 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Black Creek | 6.2 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Crow River | 6.2 | Cool | — | Type 1, Type 2, Type 4 |
| Flowers Creek | 6.1 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Ozark Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | Type 2 |
| Borgstrom Creek | 6.0 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| East Branch Waiska River | 5.6 | Warm | — | — |
| East Branch Black River Blue Ribbon | 5.5 | untyped | — | Type 2, Type 4 |
| Gogomain River | 5.5 | Cool | — | — |
| Portage Creek | 5.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Rapson Creek | 5.3 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Sanderson Creek | 5.0 | Warm | — | Type 2 |
| Taylor Creek | 5.0 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Prentiss Creek | 4.8 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| West Branch Gogomain River | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| McAlpine Creek | 4.7 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| North Branch Milakokia River | 4.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Upper Black Creek | 4.7 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| O'Niel Creek | 4.5 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Cut River | 4.2 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Skunk Creek | 4.2 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| South Branch Waiska River | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Carlton Creek | 4.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Pearson Creek | 3.9 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Dickenson Creek | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Norton Creek | 3.7 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Shoepac River | 3.6 | Cool | — | — |
| Joe Straw Creek | 3.5 | Cool | — | — |
| Quinn Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Creek | 3.4 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Trout Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | Type 2 |
| Seiners Creek | 3.2 | Cold-transitional | — | — |
| McNeil Creek | 3.1 | Cold | — | — |
| East Mile Creek | 2.9 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Hudson Creek | 2.9 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Bark Creek | 2.8 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Toms Creek | 2.8 | Cool | — | — |
| Kemp Creek | 2.6 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Maushie Creek | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Schwesinger Creek | 2.4 | Cold-transitional | — | — |
| Mackinac Creek | 2.3 | Cold-transitional | — | Type 2 |
| Cataract River | 2.2 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| McEachern Creek | 2.2 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Point Patterson Creek | 2.2 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Steele Creek | 2.1 | Cold-transitional | — | — |
| Peters Creek | 2.0 | Cold | — | Type 2 |
| Wolf Creek | 1.9 | Cool | — | — |
| Mattix Creek | 1.7 | untyped | — | Type 2 |
| Potagannissing River | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Scrams Creek | 1.7 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Sucker Creek | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Swan Creek | 1.5 | Cold | — | — |
| Shedowin Creek | 1.1 | Cool | — | Type 2 |
| Anguilm Creek | 0.9 | untyped | — | Type 2 |
| Pigeon Cove Creek | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Newton Creek | 0.6 | Cold | — | — |
| Peterson Creek | 0.6 | Cold | — | — |
The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.
Hunting
This unit is not in the huntable public-land layer this app paints, so this page does not publish seasons for it. That is not the same as "hunting is closed here" — it means the layer the app draws from does not carry this ground, and the managing agency is the one to ask.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
When to come
The hatch calendar for the Upper Peninsula, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out.
January
April
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Cranefly
- Grannom
- +10 more
June
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Green Sedge
- Light Cahill
- +15 more
August
September
October
November
December
What makes this unit distinctive
The Sault Ste. Marie Unit is 322,529 acres in Mackinac and Chippewa counties, in 261 separate blocks, reaching six watersheds — Carp-Pine, Lake Huron, Manistique, Millecoquins Lake-Brevoort, St. Marys and Tahquamenon. Eighty-five named streams touch it and fifty-six are designated trout water, 508 miles of it. The Black River and its East Branch are the Blue Ribbon water here. Most of the longer rivers on this ground MDNR types warm — the Manistique at 78.9 miles, the Munuscong, the Waiska, the Milakokia — while the Carp and the East Branch Munuscong it types cool, which makes this a unit where the designation and the classification are worth reading together rather than one instead of the other. The unit is not in the state's huntable-land layer. No gauge stands on it.
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the Michigan fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.