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Red Run, Michigan
10.8 mapped river miles, draining 140 square miles, in the Clinton subbasin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and 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
This gauge stands in Red Run. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is MDNR's — but the reading is this water.
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 4.3–2.8 | 1.5 | warm | Warm small river · very low gradient |
MDNR has classified 1.5 of the 10.8 miles NHD carries for this stream — 14% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, warm. 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
- Red Run fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Red Run — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Red Run — access, parking and public land
- Red Run fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Public land on the river
15 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 395 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Freedom Hill County Park | Macomb County | 96 |
| Red Oaks | County | 56 |
| Warren Comm Center And Park | City | 53 |
| Red Oaks Nature Center | — | 38 |
| Warren Community Park | — | 34 |
| L.w. Baumgartner Park | City | 28 |
| Baumgartner Park | Sterling Heights | 22 |
| Eckstein Park | — | 14 |
| Red Run Park | City | 13 |
| Red Oaks Dog Park | — | 11 |
Species
No species records for this water in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
47 insects are recorded from southern 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 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
| Light Cahill Maccaffertium ithaca |
May–July | 55–68°F | #12–16 |
| Little Sulphur Ephemerella dorothea |
May–July | 50–62°F | #16–20 |
And 33 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
6 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Clinton River 83.2 mi · RM 0.0
- Big Beaver Creek 10.4 mi · RM 4.3
- Plum Brook 8.6 mi · RM 0.1
- Bear Creek 6.1 mi · RM 4.5
- Lawson Drain 3.4 mi · RM 8.9
- Meckler Drain 2.4 mi · RM 5.2
Red Run sits in HUC 8 04090003, the Clinton subbasin, and drains 140 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 13 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.8 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.