#1792988 - 08/08/2005:17 PM
Re: Left handed reel
[Re: Major Woods]
tommy
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Registered: 04/23/05
Posts: 5024
Loc: Danbury
If you are right handed you should have more control holding the fish pole in your left hand and visa versa. I have more power pulling in a fish with my dominant arm.
I always hold a spinning rod in my right hand and used to hold a casting rod the same way but I tore a tendon just below my left elbow and couldn't hold the pole in that hand but I could still reel with it so at my next tourny I used a left hand casting reel and have never gone back. It might take a trip or two to get used to it but I'm very comfortable with a left hand casting reel.
Now this, I usually use a right hand casting reel when fishing out of my salt boat so go figure. LOL.
Wife and I are both left handed, I prefer right hand conventional reels and spinning reels set up lefty. She is lefty all the way, bottom fish with Shimano Calcutta 401D with power handle and Shimano Tranx both great level line reels.
#1793085 - 08/10/2003:05 PM
Re: Left handed reel
[Re: Major Woods]
Jighead
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Registered: 04/05/02
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Unless you are cranking in Wicked Tuna - I don't get the Right hand crank concept for right handed people. I have zero right hand crank reels. And I'm right handed. I've been chasing lefty conventionals my whole life. And I'm a firm believer that everyone else is doing it wrong.
Watching bass pros cast and then switch the rod to the other hand makes me crazy
I have and/or had several conventional lefties but only one level winds so far - a Penn Fantom. I have no complaints.
I did have a ABU Garcia 6501 - HATED IT. - No power.
Be careful ordering, they are available in many configurations.
#1793089 - 08/10/2003:12 PM
Re: Left handed reel
[Re: Major Woods]
Don P
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Registered: 05/03/07
Posts: 19057
Loc: CLINTON, CT
I use “right handed” reels for conventional holding the rod with my left and cranking with my right (really doesn’t make sense as stated holding the rod with your non-dominant hand).
“Right handed” spinning reels I crank with my left and hold the rod with my dominant right hand (makes more sense).....but then again why are conventional and spinning reels different while still both “right handed”?
#1793093 - 08/10/2004:14 PM
Re: Left handed reel
[Re: Jighead]
JLMOS
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Registered: 11/30/04
Posts: 5313
Loc: Meriden,CT.
Originally Posted By: Jighead
Watching bass pros cast and then switch the rod to the other hand makes me crazy
Well for what it's worth, back when I was in my LMB fishing days. I thought about that whole thing also. So I bought a left hand baitcasting reel for an extra pole I had in believing that it would work. On paper it does, but when in actual use it does not.
Now that I think about it, perhaps when you use a spinning setup in your right hand & crank with your left hand because of the reel being "under" the pole vs. a baitcaster setup the reel is "above'" the pole? That kinda makes sense. But in any event it didn't work the way I thought it would, so I gave the left handed baitcaser setup to my wife who is left handed & she likes the setup.
I should've been here yesterday? I was... And I didn't catch anything then either!!!
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#1793190 - 08/11/2003:47 PM
Re: Left handed reel
[Re: Jighead]
JohnS
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Registered: 01/19/02
Posts: 12678
Loc: Wallingford/Florida
Originally Posted By: Jighead
Unless you are cranking in Wicked Tuna - I don't get the Right hand crank concept for right handed people. I have zero right hand crank reels. And I'm right handed. I've been chasing lefty conventionals my whole life. And I'm a firm believer that everyone else is doing it wrong.
Watching bass pros cast and then switch the rod to the other hand makes me crazy
I have and/or had several conventional lefties but only one level winds so far - a Penn Fantom. I have no complaints.
I did have a ABU Garcia 6501 - HATED IT. - No power.
Be careful ordering, they are available in many configurations.
Penn might also have more Squall - MODEL # SQL20LWLH
Thanks to Jighead, I converted from right to lefty baitcasters. It was a hassle using the right handed reel when that is my dominant hand. The whole “switch over” after you casted was a real drag. Missed a few fish during the switch when the bait was grabbed as soon as it hit the water. It was a no brainer NOT to buy anymore right handers
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