Yeah, a lot to figure out for that fish. You mentioned tides, generally want the higher side of the tide; but that seems to be more important when the river has been low for a while. With the river over mean values, tides aren't as important.
Then you need to overlap for netting schedules if you're on the lower rivers.
Get kind of proficient at reading the flow levels from the USGS sites. It doesn't take a whole lot of rain for some rivers to get them moving.
Freezing level and whether there's snow--you get good bumps in flow and color, usually better for afternoon fishing.
But really weird that individual rivers need different gear. One I go to the fish like orange and about two sizes bigger, the next river over they like pink and a little smaller and the river that feeds into it they want black/purple. But most like eggs and or shrimp.
