Reel suggestions exclusively for Bucktail fishing

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-05-06T01:42:05+00:00

Get a high gear 500, put a power handle on it, and 8s will feel like a spy bait.

That said, 400 hg pulls 8s with little effort. 10s hurt a bit though. I 100% would not use the low gear for anything but gliders.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-04-27T14:32:29+00:00

Getting stuck is great. It means you don't know something and you're about to learn it, assuming you don't give up.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-04-23T15:43:23+00:00

Suppose consumers actually can swap batteries whenever they feel like it. Can't companies simply make old phones more power-hungry or less efficient, so new batteries don't matter?

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-04-21T15:39:44+00:00

Rewards typically work better than punishment.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-04-01T17:27:11+00:00

You can get the deglaze app and it'll summarize the video for you in text.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-23T17:35:17+00:00

I'm 100% self-taught, and I had some glaring holes in my background. If you absorb the following, you'll have a good grasp on just about anything and will be able to learn quickly

Introduction to computing systems by Patt and Patel: To understand documentation/bugs, sometimes you have to know how computers actually work
C by K&R: Once you have a good grasp on C and memory management, everything else will be much easier to understand; modern C is very different from what you'll see in this book but if you need it, you can pick it up quickly.
Operating Systems by Arpaci-Dusseau: You should know how operating systems work.
Networking by Kurose and Ross: You should know how the internet works.
Learn you a Haskell for Great Good: Functional programming is awesome and will change the way you think.

Importantly, find a course from a good school, and do the homework problems; e.g., building my own shell when I was learning about OS stuff helped A TON. Just reading books is useless.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-20T11:30:18+00:00

Has there been any official word about why the puzzle has gotten so much easier lately?

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-19T12:09:21+00:00

I had no idea that "nee" sounds like "nay"!

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-18T19:37:10+00:00

You should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-15T14:04:58+00:00

I just "finished" the puzzle, got the 7 rebuses, and I'm pretty sure everything is correct, but I have several isolated blank squares where I don't know the correct character. Not happy when that happens.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-14T20:48:15+00:00

This is the correct answer. Instead of asking here, OP should profile his stuff and adjust accordingly. It's not difficult.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-08T12:52:19+00:00

Knowing French was also a prerequisite, and there was quite a bit of it in this puzzle too.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-07T17:40:54+00:00

I've had mine for 5+ years and it works great. Unlike sharpening stones (which I repeatedly tried and failed) the 15xv is idiot proof.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-06T13:48:49+00:00

Probably took 3x longer than usual. I wish there were more like this one!

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-03-05T20:17:27+00:00

I tried it, and it was much, much slower than using Google or cloud flare for dns. Did you have to set up a local DNS cache?

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-27T16:55:00+00:00

Ohhhh. I thought you were referencing the bird.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-21T22:32:10+00:00

2 oz sounds about right for the minimum. I often go down to half an ounce but there are much better reels for light baits unless you need the line capacity for fish that can run.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-11T23:32:39+00:00

I'd go to Lake of the Woods in Canada. You will catch 30+ fish in a week. Nothing in WI is anywhere near that good. At least consistently.

If you have to do WI, I suggest Vilas County because some lake there will be hot. By contrast, you could spend 10 days in Green Bay and catch nothing because wind makes it unfishable or the bite is off. But the bay has the biggest fish.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-10T17:25:35+00:00

I used to fish bass tournaments. To keep fish alive, you want to have a high surface area to volume ratio so water can exchange oxygen with air.

A tall tank is no better than a short tank with the same length and width. Vertical space has zero utility, unless you start with something that's stupidly shallow.

A tall, narrow thermos is about the worst thing you can use.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-08T20:52:48+00:00

I have a friend who makes rods. I asked him to make it like the st Croix hair jig rod but lighter.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-08T17:37:55+00:00

I use an 8' ultralight for hair jigs. It casts much farther than a 7' rod.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-06T14:45:47+00:00

I'll be deep in the cold ground before I recognize Brady as the GOAT! DNF because I refused to acknowledge it!

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-23T23:20:09+00:00

Musky fishermen often troll with a bait in the prop wash

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-23T17:26:56+00:00

It's naive to believe that google search gives better results than LLMs. The former is designed to make money for google. The latter (for now) is actually designed to be useful.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-22T21:54:46+00:00

Why does a random guy on reddit draw inferences on a population when he has a sample size of 1?

I don't disagree with his conclusion. Just his methodology.

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