I'm very curious. How many of you use left handed reels?

[Sunshine]

[Sunshine]

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[SUPERTROLLER]

Spinning or baitcasting reels? I would assume you are asking about baitcasters because a lot of the spinning reels are able to flip-flop the handle to either side. Is this what you mean to ask?

Lets get a real debate going why some right handed people (most of them) reel a spinning reel with their left hand! come on if you are right handed use your dominant hand!

[SUPERTROLLER]

I am using my dominant hand. I use it to feel the bite with my fingertip while holding the line with my right index-finger. SHEEEESE! How else could you possibly do it. Are you really a fisherman? If I wanted to reel with my right hand I'd have to switch hand holds on the rod. What do you think I'm doing? Bass fishin!??! Real walleye fishermen can easily adapt to reel with either hand depending on the type of reel in their hand.

(There, that ought to throw some gasoline on the fire if you want an arguement to start.lol.Winter starting early this year?)

[River_eye]

An interesting thing is, I forced myself to switch.

I'm right handed and I used to always use right hand reeling baitcasting reels.

When I first tried a spinning reel, I reeled with my right hand as well, but because I always fish from a tiller boat and being a guide, I'm always driving, I forced myself to switch. This way I can jig with my right hand and keep my left hand on the tiller handle. This way, when I get a fish, I don't have to switch the rod to my left hand, just take my hand off the tiller and crank.

Now that I've gotten used to it, I can't imagine ever switching back, although I'm still perfectly comfortable using a right hand reeling baitcaster.

[mtwalleye]

River_eye:

I agree completely. A left-handed reel is a big help when you're running a tiller boat. In a console, it probably wouldn't matter so much. -- mark

www.walleyesunlimited.com

[curt quesnell]

you fight the fish with the rod....take in line with the reel.

if your dominant hand/arm does the work, then the dominant hand/arm
should hold the rod.

your pal

curt quesnell

I think half the people that get in my boat switch my reels to lefty, and guess which is the first one I grab the next day? As I have always said, my parents were both left handed, and I turned out normal!
(Mom and dad are lefties)
Jim Ordway

I'm right handed, so I prefer to control the rod with my right hand and reel with my left. Over the years I've gotten used to using either /or. Especially on a day when I'm tossing a lot of cranks, I'll switch back and forth to ease the stress on just one arm. One of my kids won't use anything but a left handed reel and the other is like me and use either one. My neice is left handed and she uses a right hand retreive reel.
I'm mostly talking baitcast reels. It's just natural to use a spinning reel with the left hand retreive. I can feel better with the rod in my right hand, which is the dominant hand. I wish Shimano made all of their reels in either right or left hand retreive.