tailwater · steelhead · trout · salmon

Muskegon River (Croton)

Live conditions for Muskegon River (Croton): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

1,320cfs→ lowcaution

Inside the wade band, but 72°F is warm for trout — this is smallmouth water in this heat · 0% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp72.1°F

Stage4.78 ft

Engine callOFF 73°F — too warm for trout

Gauge read 1:45 AM CDT · USGS 04121970. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Muskegon River (Croton) is a tailwater in Michigan, fished for steelhead, trout, salmon, smallmouth bass — rainbow, brown. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.

steelheadtroutsalmonsmallmouth bassrainbow troutbrown trout

Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Access points for this water are being mapped.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Muskegon River.

Every morning OUTFISH reads this gauge, the dam schedule, the water temperature, the sky and the tips library, and writes one plain-language call for the waters you track: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on — with directions.

Start free — 7 days of Guide

Signed in: the wade and float bands, the full hatch calendar, safety notes, the 14-day trend, shop reports and today's briefing for this water.

This month

Active in September:

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The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

The same sources the engine reads, straight from the agency:

USGS gauge ↗

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