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Snake River · Washington · Columbia

Hells Canyon Mouth

Target: Fall Chinook

model v1.0.0 · Heuristic Baseline
freshly scored · 6/30/2026, 7:32:08 PM
78/100
Good
Confidence12% · Very low confidence

Confidence is reduced because river flow, water temperature, recent angler reports were unavailable. The score reflects only the sources that reported in.

Angler briefing

generated · claude-haiku-4-5

# Hells Canyon Mouth – Fall Chinook Briefing **Verdict:** Good conditions (78/100) for Fall Chinook at Hells Canyon Mouth, though low confidence warrants cautious optimism. **Driver:** Fish counts are strong—recent passage of 1120 fish runs 35% above baseline and is climbing, accounting for most of the score. Weather is cooperating with light cloud cover, moderate wind, and stable pressure. However, critical data on river flow, water temperature, and recent angler reports are missing, which significantly limits confidence to just 12%—you're fishing on solid numbers but blind to real-time conditions that could make or break your day.

What drove the score

Factor breakdown

Fish counts

+58pts

Recent count 1120 vs 832 baseline (+35%, rising).

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Weather & pressure

+20pts

13% cloud, 15 km/h wind, stable pressure.

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Excluded — source unavailable

  • River flowweight 25% · dropped
  • Water temperatureweight 25% · 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 · 1120 counted

Same inputs · every model version

v1.0.0active
Heuristic Baseline
78
12% conf
v1.1.0candidate
Thermal-Weighted Candidate
74
16% conf
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Provenance

inputs hash
23ddef2e
reproducible
✗ mismatch
usgs gauge
13343500