Skagit River · Washington
Mount Vernon Reach
Target: Chinook Salmon
Confidence is reduced because fish counts, recent angler reports were unavailable. The score reflects only the sources that reported in.
Angler briefing
generated · claude-haiku-4-5Mount Vernon Reach is scoring fair for Chinook right now, but conditions are mixed: water temperature is ideal at 15.5°C, and falling pressure with light winds should help, though they're contributing less to the score than the temperature benefit. The main limitation is river flow at 6980 cfs, which is significantly above the optimal 600–2200 cfs range and is dragging down your chances. Confidence is moderate at 62% partly because current fish counts and recent angler reports aren't available, so you're missing real-time data on whether Chinook are actually moving through the reach today.
What drove the score
Factor breakdown
Water temperature
15.5°C is in the ideal band (8–16°C).
view source ↗Weather & pressure
0% cloud, 4 km/h wind, falling pressure.
view source ↗River flow
6980cfs is above ideal (600–2200cfs).
view source ↗Excluded — source unavailable
- Fish countsweight 30% · dropped
- Recent angler reportsweight 8% · dropped
Catch report
Did you catch fish here?
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Fish-count feed
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Provenance
- inputs hash
- 40077a1d
- reproducible
- ✗ mismatch
- usgs gauge
- 12200500 ↗