Skykomish River · Washington
Gold Bar Run
Target: Winter Steelhead
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
16.4°C is above ideal (8–16°C).
view source ↗River flow
370cfs is below ideal (600–2200cfs).
view source ↗Weather & pressure
0% cloud, 6 km/h wind, stable pressure.
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
- 5655cbb5
- reproducible
- ✗ mismatch
- usgs gauge
- 12134500 ↗