Doctrine
The boundary is the product.
Everything this instrument is willing to say is bounded by what a public agency has already published. Where the record runs out, we say so and stop. That refusal is not a limitation of the tool — it is the tool.
Held on record
- Named public waterbodies and officially published public access facilities.
- Notices and advisories that the managing agency has published.
- Verification steps the operator must complete on the day of travel.
- Documented seasonal and regulatory pressure points, by section where stated.
- The date the official source was last read, and when it is due to be read again.
Refused, permanently
- Private water, leased water, or any spot supplied by a user in confidence.
- Exact coordinates, waypoints, or anything that reduces a corridor to a pin.
- Live gauge height, discharge, tide stage, wind, water temperature or clarity.
- Hatch activity, bite windows, forage timing, or any catch expectation.
- Conservation-sensitive locations, spawning concentrations, or vulnerable populations.
- Real-time parking, ramp queue, or facility staffing.
Fail closed,
every time.
A water is only go when every same-day check has been completed by the person travelling. If a check cannot be completed — the phone rings out, the page is down, the sign is missing — the default answer is not-go. The instrument never fills that gap with an inference.
Confidence figures describe how well documented a layer is, not how likely a day is to go well. They never reach 100, because the record is always older than the water.
Posted signage and the managing authority outrank anything printed from this system, including a field packet you carried in your pocket.
Plan a day within the boundary