How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (fishthebow) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:54:11 GMT

This is one of the few situations where lefties got the upper hand (no pun intended). The british made all their reels right hand wind. Lefties are very comfortable throwing left and winding right, kind of like baseball. Now theres all those old obsolete right hand wind reels out there that nobody wants except us lefties.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (bikerfish) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:43:27 GMT

cast right, reel left. just feels natural to me. bottom line, as long as the fly gets to the fish and the fish is caught, that's what matters!! reel with your toes it ya want!! all my reels are lhr, but if I came across a right handed that I wasn't able to convert, I'd probably be able to adapt.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Marshall8) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:29:33 GMT

I started out casting right reeling right until I was told by a friend that it was wrong. Have been reeling left ever since but met a new friend that gave me something to ponder. He said that you are much smoother reeling right being a right hander and learning to do so will help prevent flipping the line around the bottom of the rod and you can also reel faster. I have been working on going back to right reeling and it does not seem to be a problem.

When it comes to line...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (AZfly) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:09:05 GMT

For large saltwater fish they say to use you dominate hand for reeling as it does not tire as easy. With that said most people cast dominate side so that would be right/right or left/left. I cast right and reel right untill recently. I started to reel left for some strange reason.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (PflighFission) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:26:07 GMT

Cast right, reel left.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Flyfishingshaman) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:56:41 GMT

Like the majority-cast right, reel left, left over from earlier times with Zebco and my spinning rods. However, have a RHW Hardy UDLA 5/6wt. that I've not changed over to LHW. So I can cast right wind right if need be.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Steelheader69) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:27:50 GMT

I always cast right handed and reel left. I know the original left handed Ambassadeurs were primarily designed for the Pacific Northwest. Since we hated switching hands. I remember taking a tour when I was over in Sweden. When they told me that I started rolling. When I explained that's where I was from and I'm an ABU freak, they laughed as well. All my casting is done that way. Baitcaster, flycasting, spinning rods, centerpins, etc. But I always cast with my right, and reel with my...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (middlemac) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:40:00 GMT

I'm a Lefty and only cast LH, wind RH.

It's interesting because when I played traditional dance music for years down here I played the fiddle in the typical RH manner (grip fiddle LH, bowing with the right), while a few Lefties I knew switched the strings and soundpost on their instruments and played "backwards."

If the wife was drowning in the wrong place and I had to hook her with a proper cast, I'd have to yell: "SWIM THE OTHER WAY!!!"...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (mwleapjr) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:24:31 GMT

Just for fun, I will note that most of my reels are set up for RH retrieve, and that early on as a teen ager in the 60's when learning and a RH reel was all I had, I sometimes mounted the fly reels so that the handle was on the left, and then I reeled 'backwards' (that is, counter clockwise,,, towards me). I got used to doing that with older reels that did not convert to LH and continued to do it that way, not bothering to switch from RH on reels that would allow that. But, to...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (jbenenson) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:44:42 GMT

Fly fishing: I cast right and reel left. Baitcasting: I cast right and reel right. Spinning: why bother?

I have never really thought about it one way or the other. It seems natural to use either hand for reeling, depending on the tackle.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (mudman) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:17:12 GMT

Cast right reel left. But I can do either, it really does not matter to me especially in trout fishing, most of that is stripping in line.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Pocono) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:33:22 GMT

Like some others on this thread, I cast right handed and strip the line in with my left hand.

In the rare situation where I feel that I need to get a big trout on the reel quickly, I reel in with my left hand.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (corlay) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:03:27 GMT

my first rod/reel was a Zebco spin-cast.
then I moved-up to a Mitchell 300.
Then a fly rod.

My Dad ("The Instructor") is left-handed,
so he always casted left (dominant hand) and reeled right (weaker hand).
When he taught me, he naturally (or un-naturally?...) mirrored his methodology to suit my right-handedness.

Which makes me a right casting LHW.

This has always made sense to me,
because I feel that your more coordinated hand...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (scud dog) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:19:13 GMT

As Magicwrench and Dave Lewis stated: casting and reeling right handed was the way things were done until the post WWII era. It's an English tradition, same as holding the fork with your left hand while cutting food then setting down your knife and placing your fork into your right hand to eat. I couldn't buy into it, though my mom tried... This preference has carried over into my fishing. I'm another righty with my reels set for LHW.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (harleydeen) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:07:04 GMT

I cast with the right and reel with the right, but with the spey I cast with both depending on whether I'm on river left or river right. When I started flyfishing for Steelhead, about 15 years ago, and old-timer once told me that if I were to learn to cast and then reel with opposite hands I could make a longer fishing day because my casting arm would not be as fatigued. I tried it, got used to it, and have done it ever since.

The 2-hander...that's a different story!!!!...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Rockthief) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:50:53 GMT

either way - since I bought some rhw reels I have become accustomed to casting and reeling as the outfit demands. It did not take me long and I thought I never would get the hang of it, but now I cast right-handed and reel rh or lh depending on the reel.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (davelrods) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:29:33 GMT

Right right for me. Old school for me. All those old reels work just fine for me. I don't know why you guys keep buying them when they don't work for you.

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Upstreeam) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:01:57 GMT

With a spin background, I started casting right and winding left. But I was self "taught" with a fly rod and constantly caught the handle with the line, so I quickly switched to LHW. Tried to switch to RHW once, but it felt wrong, and the effects of my poor teacher still showed up.

As to technique, trout mostly don't get on the reel, and when they do, I wait until a good opportunity, holding the rod pretty much dead in front, switch, fight winding right, and then...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (waynebh) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:02:30 GMT

Hi All;

With spinning and then baitcasting for me it's cast with right and reel with left. I purchased lefty baitcasters, it just made more sense to me. With a fly rod I normally cast with right and strip/retreive with left. Never put a fish on the reel yet so I don't worry about what side wind the reel is. Sometimes situations require a left hand cast so I taught myself to cast with both hands. I don't use my left for fly casting much so it takes a few casts to get...

Re: How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Bamboozle) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:59:30 GMT

I do the cast right/reel left thing with every type of fishing I do which is baitcasting, spinning and fly fishing.

Interestingly enough my first ever fishing reel was a RHW baitcaster that a friend's brother gave me and later a RHW spincaster my father gave me. When I decided to BUY my first fishing reel which was a Mitchell 408, they came either LHW or RHW as opposed to the convertible reels of today. The salesman asked me if I was right handed or left handed to which I...

How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

feeds@yuku.com (Raybow) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:06:38 GMT

I don't understand how a right handed caster can have control over the fly line by casting right handed and then switching to the left hand with the rod to retrieve right handed? The rod is in the left hand at this point and rod position would be awkward to 'me that is' by trying to reel palm. adjust the drag, etc. with the right hand when the rod is in the left hand. Your right handed and most coordinated and sensitive with that hand. Catch a fish sometimes require a fight...