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Tacoosh River, Michigan
20 mapped river miles, draining 29 square miles, in the Tacoosh-Whitefish subbasin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 9.1 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 9.1 miles away, at Escanaba River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The character of the water
Twenty and one tenth of mapped miles of medium stream in the Tacoosh-Whitefish subbasin, the NHD agreeing at 20.1, a median 11.9 feet wide, draining 28.91 square miles at Strahler order 3. Regulation splits: 16.9 miles Type 1, last Saturday in April through September 30th, and 2.5 miles Type 4, open year-round. Both allow artificial lures and all types of natural bait, with a creel of 5 fish and no more than 3 trout 15" or greater. MDNR types 2.1 miles from river mile 14.7 down to the mouth as Cool, a warm transitional stream on medium gradient. That is 10 percent of the length, and the class describes the valley segment rather than the water, so no measured temperature exists here; the nearest gauge, on the Escanaba River, is 9.1 miles off. A single public unit, the Escanaba Unit of the Escanaba River State Forest, covers 25,408 acres, with no access sites or launches recorded. The record lists no tributaries, surveys, stocking, or counties.
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 14.7–0.0 | 2.1 | cool | Warm transitional stream · medium gradient |
MDNR has classified 2.1 of the 20 miles NHD carries for this stream — 10% 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
- Tacoosh River fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish the Tacoosh River — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to the Tacoosh River — access, parking and public land
- Tacoosh River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Regulations
MDNR trout stream types, as designated. Types on file cover 19.4 of the 20.1 mapped miles; 0.7 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 16.9 mi |
RM 20.1–2.6 | 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" |
|
Type 4 2.5 mi |
RM 2.6–0.0 | January 1st–December 31st | Brook trout 7", Brown trout 10", 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, 25,408 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Escanaba River State Forest - Escanaba Unit | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 25,408 |
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.
| 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 |
| 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
Tacoosh River sits in HUC 8 04030111, the Tacoosh-Whitefish subbasin, and drains 29 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 22 NHD reaches carry the name for 20.1 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.