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Memengwa Creek, Michigan

2.1 mapped river miles, draining 1 square mile, in the Black-Presque Isle subbasin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 5.5 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is MDNR's classification of the water itself.

Open in BirdTrout
Map key
Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

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 5.5 miles away, at Presque Isle River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

60.8 °F
Presque Isle River
5.5 mi away · 36 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:30 am ET
Cold-transitional

Questions about this river

Regulations

MDNR trout stream types, as designated. Types on file cover 2.0 of the 2.1 mapped miles; 0.1 miles carry no type in this dataset. Always check the current Michigan Fishing Guide before you fish — this is a copy, and the Guide is the rule.

Type Where Season Minimum sizes
Type 1
2.0 mi
RM 2.1–0.0 Last Saturday in April–September 30th Brook trout 7", Brown trout 8", Rainbow trout / steelhead 10", Lake trout 10", Chinook salmon 10", Coho salmon 10", Pink salmon 10", Atlantic salmon 10"

Creel across all types: 5 fish, with no more than 3 trout 15“ or greater. Zero (0) Arctic Grayling. Tackle: Artificial lures and all types of natural bait may be used.

Public land on the river

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 51,740 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Porcupine Mountains Michigan DNR 51,740

Species

No species records for this water in the files this site reads.

Hatches on this water

42 insects are recorded from the Upper Peninsula, 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.

InsectPeakWaterSize
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
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
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
Giant Black Stonefly (Salmonfly)
Pteronarcys dorsata
May–June 50–62°F #4–6
Green Sedge
Rhyacophila spp.
May–August 48–64°F #12–16

And 28 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.

Memengwa Creek sits in HUC 8 04020101, the Black-Presque Isle subbasin, and drains 1 square mile, Strahler order 1 at the mouth. 2 NHD reaches carry the name for 2.1 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.