Left hand

[Quillback]

I'm all righty with reels, I don't even think about it.  I could use a lefty bait caster, but I would have to use them all the time, I could not have a couple of lefties on the deck and a couple of righties.  

[jdmidwest]

4 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I grew up fly fishing so I always reeled left handed.  When I finally got a spinner it was natural to reel left handed.  Bait caster a little while after that and went left handed again.  Although I can reel right handed but I don't see where switching hands is good.  Plus I like my dominate hand working the rod.  That's weird that you're good to go with spinners but not baitcast.

Funny thing, fly reels were normally set up for right hand reeling at first.  If you fished the other way, the click or the drag needed switched over.  You switched hands to play a fish to let the reel do the work.  I thought that was odd when I was young and started fly fishing coming off of spin fishing, I started setting up my reels for left hand reeling.  I still have some old Herter's, Martins, and Horrocks Ibbotson reels that are right hand reel only.  The automatics were great and worked either way.

[Flysmallie]

On 5/13/2020 at 5:34 PM, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Exactly.  Makes no sense.  

Been doing it since I was 8. Makes perfect sense to me. 

[tjm]

The salt guys will tell you reel with your dominate/strong  hand. They believe you are so much better coordinated that way and that the hand strength  makes big difference  with big fish. Saw a long thread on the subject recently on another forum and every salt angler and guide on that forum said reel with the strong hand.  I don't think it'd matter at all to me, either hand can reel, but then I never had a 100# fish on either.

[snagged in outlet 3]

9 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Been doing it since I was 8. Makes perfect sense to me. 

Been left handing reeling since I was 4-5.😁  Maybe before that.

[Flysmallie]

7 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Been left handing reeling since I was 4-5.😁  Maybe before that.

Whatever. I was serious. 

[Mitch f]

Switching hands is so natural to me anymore I don’t think about it. Even though it is a wasted motion. It takes what?....a forth of a second more?

[liphunter]

I am the same way Mitch. That's on a bait caster. But on on the spinning real, I cast with the right hand and real with the left. I don't switch hands. I don't even think about either action. I bet others do that as well.

[jimalert3]

I'm right handed but learned to cast about 70 years ago and it's great.

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

Whatever. I was serious. 

My point is, whatever works somebody is all that matters..  Sorry you took it the wrong way.