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Skykomish River · Washington

Gold Bar Run

Target: Winter Steelhead

model v1.0.0 · Heuristic Baseline
freshly scored · 8/31/2026, 5:46:50 AM
74/100
Good
Confidence62% · Moderate confidence

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-4-5

**Verdict:** Gold Bar Run is a good spot today (74/100), but conditions are suboptimal and confidence is moderate at 62%. **Explanation:** Water temperature at 16.4°C is running warm—right at the upper limit for winter steelhead—and river flow at 370cfs is significantly below the ideal 600–2200cfs range, both suppressing your score. Weather conditions are favorable (clear, light wind, stable pressure), but fish count and recent angler report data are unavailable, which limits confidence in these conditions actually producing fish.

What drove the score

Factor breakdown

Water temperature

+38pts

16.4°C is above ideal (8–16°C).

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River flow

+22pts

370cfs is below ideal (600–2200cfs).

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Weather & pressure

+14pts

0% cloud, 6 km/h wind, stable pressure.

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Excluded — source unavailable

  • Fish countsweight 30% · dropped
  • Recent angler reportsweight 8% · dropped

Catch report

Did you catch fish here?

No account, no personal data — just the catch outcome.

Fish-count feed

last 6 readings
5/23/2026now · 350 counted

Same inputs · every model version

v1.0.0active
Heuristic Baseline
74
62% conf
v1.1.0candidate
Thermal-Weighted Candidate
75
68% conf
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Provenance

inputs hash
5655cbb5
reproducible
✗ mismatch
usgs gauge
12134500