BirdTrout
Portage Marsh State Wildlife Management Area, Michigan
219 acres of public ground in Delta county, managed by Michigan DNR. 2 named streams run through it, of which 1 is designated trout water — 107.8 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 PAD-US 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
Entry is limited — a permit, a season or a posted restriction applies. Check with the managing agency before you go.
This unit is 7 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. 1 of them has a page of its own and is linked; the rest are in the app. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford River Blue Ribbon | 107.8 | Cool | — | Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4 |
| Portage Creek | 6.6 | untyped | — | — |
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
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.
- Whitefish, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 17.7 mi
- Delta County Forest 18.2 mi
- Escanaba River State Forest - Escanaba Unit 19.5 mi
- Peterson Pond Flooding State Wildlife Management Area 19.5 mi
- Natural Area Point Detour 23.4 mi
Plan a weekend around it
The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.