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Millecoquins Lake-Brevoort River Watershed, Michigan

653 miles of mapped stream across 553 square miles of drainage, in 65 named streams. Michigan designates 245 of those miles as trout water, on 46 streams.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of every stream in the basin

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. On this map 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 watershed in numbers

HUC8 04030114 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

653 mi
of mapped stream
1,481 NHD reaches
553 sq mi
drainage area
353,613 acres
181,746 ac
public land
51.4% of the basin · 47 units

Cold, cool and warm water

MDNR's Valley Segment Ecological Classification, which types the valley segment rather than measuring the water. It covers 28% of this basin's stream miles (181.7 of 653); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

99.4 of the 181.7 typed miles in this basin — 55% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

There is no elevation model behind this page, so it carries no elevation range. MDNR's gradient class is the field that answers the same question, and over the typed miles it reads: high 75.9 mi, medium 69.3 mi, low 23.7 mi, very low 12.8 mi.

What makes this watershed distinctive

The smallest drainage on this map at 553 square miles, and one of the most open: 181,746 acres are public, 51.4% of the basin, held in only 47 units and dominated by 136,200 acres of state land. The streams here are short — the longest, the Milakokia River, runs 18.4 miles — and there are 65 of them named, 46 designated as trout water over 244.6 miles. The Black River and its East Branch carry Blue Ribbon designations. Of the 181.7 miles MDNR has typed, which is 28% of the 652.8 mapped, 79.9 are cold, 64.1 cool, 19.5 cold-transitional and 18.2 warm — a cold-leaning profile on a reasonably thorough sample. The Little Brevoort River, 14.6 miles, is the longest cold water. The Milakokia and the Lower Millecoquins both type warm and both carry Type 4 reaches. No gauge in the basin holds a July record.

Every named stream in the basin

All 65 of them, longest first. None has a page of its own yet; all of them are in the app. Thermal class is MDNR's, over the reaches it has typed. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream Miles Class Now Designation
Milakokia River 18.4 Warm — Type 1, Type 2, Type 4
Little Brevoort River 14.6 Cold — Type 2
Brevoort River 14.3 Cool — Type 1, Type 2
Rock River 13.3 Cool — Type 2
Furlong Creek 12.5 Cool — Type 2
Lower Millecoquins River 11.9 Warm — Type 1, Type 2, Type 4
Black River Blue Ribbon 11.0 Cold — Type 1, Type 2
Hog Island Creek 9.1 Cold — Type 2
Doe Creek 8.6 Cool — Type 2
Upper Millecoquins River 7.9 Cold-transitional — Type 2
Paquin Creek 7.5 Cold — Type 2
Davenport Creek 7.3 Cold — Type 2
Pointe aux Chenes River 7.2 Cool — —
Maloney Creek 6.4 Cold-transitional — Type 2
Silver Creek 6.3 Cold — Type 2
Four Hundred and Five Creek 6.3 untyped — Type 2
Crow River 6.2 Cool — Type 1, Type 2, Type 4
Borgstrom Creek 6.0 Cold — Type 2
Little Cut River 5.9 Cool — Type 2
Bulldog Creek 5.6 Warm — —
East Branch Black River Blue Ribbon 5.5 untyped — Type 2, Type 4
McAlpine Creek 4.7 Cold — Type 2
North Branch Milakokia River 4.7 Warm — —
Nelson Creek 4.7 Cool — —
O'Niel Creek 4.5 Cool — Type 2
Skunk Creek 4.2 Cold-transitional — Type 2
Cut River 4.2 Cold — Type 2
Fernia Creek 3.6 Cool — —
Snyder Creek 3.6 Cool — —
Moran River 3.5 Cool — —
Gulliver Lake Outlet 3.5 Cool — —
Seiners Creek 3.2 Cold-transitional — —
McNeil Creek 3.1 Cold — —
Marblehead Creek 3.1 Cool — —
East Mile Creek 2.9 Cold — Type 2
Hudson Creek 2.9 Cold — Type 2
Threemile Creek 2.8 Cold — Type 2, Type 4
Bark Creek 2.8 Cold — Type 2
South Branch Cold Creek 2.7 untyped — Type 2
Hagler Creek 2.5 Cool — Type 2
Jocko Creek 2.4 Cold — Type 2
West Branch Furlong Creek 2.3 Warm — Type 2
Kitchens Creek 2.3 Cold — —
McEachern Creek 2.2 Cool — Type 2
Cataract River 2.2 Cold — Type 2
Point Patterson Creek 2.2 Cold — Type 2
North Branch Cold Creek 2.2 untyped — Type 2
Peters Creek 2.0 Cold — Type 2
West Mile Creek 1.9 Cold — Type 2
Anderson Creek 1.9 untyped — —
South Branch Three Mile Creek 1.8 untyped — Type 2
Harris Creek 1.8 untyped — Type 2
Mattix Creek 1.7 untyped — Type 2
Scrams Creek 1.7 Cool — Type 2
Orr Creek 1.7 Cold — Type 2
Sucker Creek 1.6 untyped — —
East Branch Furlong Creek 1.5 untyped — Type 2
Swan Creek 1.5 Cold — —
Cold Creek 1.3 untyped — Type 2
Milk Creek 1.3 Cold — Type 2
Shedowin Creek 1.1 Cool — Type 2
Gents Creek 1.0 untyped — —
Dry Creek 0.8 Cool — —
Newton Creek 0.6 Cold — —
Peterson Creek 0.6 Cold — —

Public land in the watershed

181,746 acres in 47 units, which is 51.4% of the 353,613 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
Michigan DNR 136,200 75% 18
Local Government land 29,254 16% 14
US Forest Service 16,138 9% 3
Michigan Nature Association 37 0% 4
The Nature Conservancy 31 0% 1
Other State Land 27 0% 1
Garfield Township School District 20 0% 1
Mackinac Bridge Authority 16 0% 1

The biggest named blocks of it, each with its own page — the streams on that ground, what is open to hunt on it, and where the access sites are.

Best time to fish

The hatch calendar for the Upper Peninsula, which is the region this basin's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this watershed: nobody has counted insects basin by basin. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out; they are true every month and they are not what a calendar is for.

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December

42 insects are recorded from the Upper Peninsula. Each links to its own page, with the flies that imitate it.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.