How many cast right handed and wind left handed?

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corlay		#21	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 441 (12/06/08 22:03:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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 is better suited to control the tip/line vs. the reel, both in casting and retrieve. Being very close to ambidextrous in many ways, however; I have started to lawn-cast "lefty" just to increase my odds in tight situations. I'm not all that good.... - yet. I've also tried the back-handed cast with my right, but haven't found that to be any easier really... "From my observations I think that most of us spend too much time worrying about our tackle and too little time learning the intimate characteristics of the fish and streams we fish most." - Ray Bergman Trout, New York: Knopf 1938
Pocono		#22	[-]
Guide Posts: 90 (12/07/08 13:33:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
mudman		#23	[-]
Guide Posts: 20 (12/10/08 19:17:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
jbenenson		#24	[-]
Sport Posts: 40 (12/11/08 06:44:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
mwleapjr.clarksclassicfl...	Right hand retrieve	#25	[-]
Sport Posts: 9 (12/12/08 13:24:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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 'make life interesting', I have set up some reels for LH and after some getting used to, can go back and forth in either direction from either side... Well, usually! I just make sure I know how the reel is set up first, especially a friend's! And I spin cast and bait cast as a 'normal' righthander, but without much thought (probably due to so many years of fishing with all 3 types of reels - though fly fishing is still my favorite).
middlemac		#26	[-]
Posts: 1089 (04/03/09 10:40:00) Projects Coordinator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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!!!" middlemac Last Edited By: middlemac 04/03/09 10:44:26. Edited 3 times.
Steelheader69		#27	[-]
Sport Posts: 25 (04/03/09 11:27:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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 left. Way I was raised to do it, and feels natural. Just a steelheader looking for that next hookup.
Flyfishingshaman		#28	[-]
Sport Posts: 53 (04/03/09 21:56:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
PflighFission		#29	[-]
Sport Posts: 46 (04/04/09 14:26:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Cast right, reel left. Of all the liars among mankind the fisherman is the most trustworthy" - William Sherwood Fox
AZfly		#30	[-]
Sport Posts: 25 (04/06/09 18:09:05) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
Marshall8	for me....	#31	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 255 (04/10/09 09:29:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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 management I am still stripping and slipping line with the rod in the right hand. Its when I get "on the reel" from a running fish that I switch the rod to the left and reel right. Do any of you right handers casting with right hand switch the rod to your left hand immediately when you hook-up then do the line management thing with your right hand? Marshall
bikerfish		#32	[-]
Sport Posts: 6 (04/10/09 12:43:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.
fishthebow		#33	[-]
Sport Posts: 34 (04/13/09 04:54:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	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.

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