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Haymarsh Creek, Michigan
11.8 mapped river miles, draining 29 square miles, in the Muskegon River watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 23.0 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is MDNR's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 24.5 miles away, at Manistee River Near Grayling — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — it has sent no water temperature for 1431 days, since 28 October 2022, so no number here comes from it.
The pills above go to USGS. These are this site's pages for the same gauges — a thirty-day chart, the monthly means, the record, and today's reading against the five-year normal for today: 04135687.
Thermal classification
MDNR types this water from its valley, not from a thermometer in it. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | MDNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 11.4–3.6 | 7.8 | cool | Warm transitional stream · very low gradient |
MDNR has classified 7.8 of the 13.5 miles NHD carries for this stream — 58% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cool. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water MDNR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Haymarsh Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Haymarsh Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Haymarsh Creek — access, parking and public land
- Haymarsh Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Access
1 mapped MDNR access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Dead Stream Flooding (RM 0.0). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 125,489 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Pere Marquette State Forest - Cadillac Unit | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 72,804 |
| Au Sable State Forest - Roscommon Unit | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 44,997 |
| Haymarsh Lake State Game Area | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 6,666 |
| Dead Stream Flooding State Wildlife Management Area | State Dept. of Natural Resources | 1,023 |
Species
No species records for this water in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
53 insects are recorded from northern lower Michigan, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Eggs Other |
October–January and April | 33–60°F | #10–16 |
| Little Black Stonefly Allocapnia / Capnia spp. |
January–April | 34–46°F | #16–18 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Blue Quill Paraleptophlebia adoptiva |
April–May | 44–56°F | #16–18 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Green Rock Worm / Green Weenie Rhyacophila spp. |
April–June and September–October | 45–68°F | #10–14 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| Alderfly Sialis spp. |
May–June | 52–66°F | #10–14 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
And 39 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.
Tributaries and watershed
1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
Haymarsh Creek sits in HUC 8 04060102, the Muskegon River watershed, and drains 29 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 8 NHD reaches carry the name for 13.5 miles in total — more than the 11.8 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.