Breaking my left hand and it not really healing right has me looking at left hand reels, and building some too. Why does the industry not address the 10%-15% of us that use the "wrong hand"? Avet does but I'd love to have a LH Saltest, Thorium or Trinidad.
I picked up a Penn Battle II to try but I'm still not sold on spinners, we will see after I give it a work out.
well, i got 100 left handed 6/0 gear sleeves that were supposed to be right handed. if you want to hot rod a 6/0 or a 9/0, i can help you out! ;D
I have 1 more waiting for $ to get a narrow Tib 113H kit. I have the LH gears.
Quote from: alantani on May 12, 2015, 02:25:16 AM
well, i got 100 left handed 6/0 gear sleeves that were supposed to be right handed. if you want to hot rod a 6/0 or a 9/0, i can help you out! ;D
:D
yeah, it was a $2500 mistake!
I for one went lefty with all my reels in the last 2 years. The reason for that was the bearings in most spinning reels from Shimano and Daiwa have larger bearings in the LH side and the LH side has more reinforcing around that bearing also... All my (well most) reels are smaller spin (finesse to you all in the US) from 2lb main line 1000 size setup's to Curado / Abu 6500 size baitcasters then upto 30lb OH like the Saltist 40H etc.
Personally if I could get all my baitcasters into a left handed configuration life would be great! I personally hate being locked into the RH market with baitcasters and OH reels.
My dominant right hand makes a great casting tool, however swapping hands to hold the rod is just a wasted action and cast with the right and engage and wind with the left is how it should be. I try to convert as many people as I can and that usually doesnt start with "have you read the good book lately". :D
Slazmo - I'm with you on most of your points, certainly baitcaters and spinners. In fresh water fishing casting with a dominant right hand and then swapping the rod over to the left makes no sense to me - you're just loosing precious time. Sea fishing is a bit different - for surfcasting I use left handed reels. For larger trolling/jigging/cut bait reels they are all right handed - no technical reason just feels better :-\ For larger fish both hands are on the rod alot of the time anyway (I hope) :D
Quote from: Keta on May 12, 2015, 12:12:51 AM
Breaking my left hand and it not really healing right has me looking at left hand reels, and building some too. Why does the industry not address the 10%-15% of us that use the "wrong hand"? Avet does but I'd love to have a LH Saltest, Thorium or Trinidad.
I picked up a Penn Battle II to try but I'm still not sold on spinners, we will see after I give it a work out.
Keta: I think you answered your own question about left handed reels. "10%-15% of us that use the wrong hand". Marketing is the reason. Right is right and left is wrong. ;D Just kidding. ;) As a right hand person I find reeling with either hand doesn't make any difference for me and in some cases better lefty.
We should practice as switch hitter in baseball do. ;D
Most of us use the left on spinners and right on conventional, buy it gets confusing if your looking in a mirror ;D
I am left handed but, I am not sure what I do the "right" and left handed way any more. All reeling in I do with my right hand regardless of type of reel, fly spin or multiplier. Fly casting, left hand, spinner, also cast over left shoulder, multiplier, I cast over my right shoulder though, probably because it is easier to thumb control the multiplier with my clever left hand (we fish the reel at the bottom)? If I had to switch to left handed reels I would have to teach myself all over again. I also can't use left handed scissors.
A strange phenomena is that we mostly fish spinners with the handle on the right hand side if you are right handed.
I thought most RH people fish spinners with LH handle position and cast with the right hand - at least everyone I know :-\
Hi All,
This is something I have noticed in southern Africa, regardless of reel type they all wind with the right hand. The spinners mostly come with the handle on the right hand side, unless the product has come from Europe, when they are then fitted corrctly on the left hand side.
I was taught on rivers and ponds to cast with my right arm to 'fine control' the cast, and that left my left hand to do simple things like wind the spinner handle. The right hand is also used as the predominant hand for casting fly - so the handles on the reel should be on the left to do the simple thing of winding the handle.
That said as soon as we go afloat, we are all happy winding with the right hand. It was a real task to swap over from right hand controlling the reel to left hand doing that jopb, when I came south to fish in the surf. However, once mastered it works and with the reel at the bottom of the rod seems to make sense for power casting. That said, now that I use a spinner for surf with braid - the handle has to be on the left hand side, as otherwise it just feels odd.
We all get used to whatever works for us at the appropriate time.
Cheers from sunny Africa,
Jeri
Long live (angling) ambidexterity! :D
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Quote from: Aiala on May 12, 2015, 02:26:53 PM
Long live (angling) ambidexterity! :D
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Messing up my left hand makes it harder.
Speaking of spinning reels, most manufactures have them so you can switch the handle on either side. But Right handed people do use there left hand to reel the spinner simply because they use there right to cast and it's easier to retrieve with the left.
I agree with Sal though. We should learn to switch up. Ill be honest, for me it makes little difference.
My first spinner was a Mitchell Garcia 306... I learned to surf cast with it. No reversible handles back then, so I just became accustomed to left-hand winding. Now, I couldn't switch if I wanted to. ;)
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Quote from: Aiala on May 12, 2015, 04:28:54 PM
My first spinner was a Mitchell Garcia 306... I learned to surf cast with it. No reversible handles back then, so I just became accustomed to left-hand winding. Now, I couldn't switch if I wanted to. ;)
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Believe me you could if you had to, it's really not that difficult. Now learning to crank the reel backwards, that's difficult! ::)
Guess I'm in the minority. I'm right handed and just switch out the spinner handle from the left side to the right side. Works for me...different strokes. ;D
Quote from: Reel 224 on May 12, 2015, 04:33:13 PM
Now learning to crank the reel backwards, that's difficult! ::)
Ah, yes... the amazing upside-spinner method. I've gotten some good laughs over that, especially in advertisements and commercials. You'd think that the Mad Men would bother to research their subject, but nooo... I'll never forget one ad I saw with some rugged he-man type holding a Senator 6/0 on a roller rod with a freshwater Fat Rap dangling from the line!! Riiight, good luck with that, LOL :D
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Quote from: Tunacious on May 12, 2015, 04:45:47 PM
Guess I'm in the minority. I'm right handed and just switch out the spinner handle from the left side to the right side. Works for me...different strokes. ;D
I do the same.. and mostly all the people I know they also change the LH from spinners to RH
Im feel more comfortable while casting spoons or plastic with my RH to speed up, crack at lower speed, etc and twitch the rod with the left
When steelhead fishing you often hang up on structure when switching hands, all but 2 of my salmon and steelhead reels are LH.
I just quit fighting it and I use right handed gear for everything fishing, rifles and bows all right handed.
Only writing eating and hand tools with my left.
I'm totally screwed up, the world was not developed with the lefty in mind and around the home I grew up in, there was no lefty gear, I played baseball for two years using my older brothers righty glove, upside down on my right hand. Didn't effect my playing one bit.
You do know that the left side of the body is controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain and the re right side is controlled by the left side.
Therefore left handed people are the only ones in their right mind!
Quote from: Tiddlerbasher on May 12, 2015, 01:11:34 PM
I thought most RH people fish spinners with LH handle position and cast with the right hand - at least everyone I know :-\
Yes, I just don't get that. I finally bought my first spinning reel a couple of months ago and I could not even think about reeling with the left hand, so I got a Mitchell 301 left handed, that you reel with your right hand. Err, or is that a right handed? Go figure. To me all spinners are left handed and right handed people use them left handed. Whose on first?
Right handed, but fish left hand retrieve except for a couple of conventional reels that I can't change easily. Growing up the first reels I used were Dad's old Mitchell's they were all left hand wind. To me it makes sense to have your strong arm on the rod.
Regards
Mark
x2 Mark
I fiahsh left hand spinner and right hand conventional
Hi,
If you are still looking for lefty conventional reels. You still have hope!
Here are a few options:
A lefty Shimano Trinidad is called a Shimano Ocea Jigger 1501, 2001, or 3001. It is exactly same as Trinidad except there is one additonal bearing for smoothness, spool lock for snags, and an auto engage function that can be disabled.
Also you have lefty Maxel Ocean Max Jigging reels with active spring loaded AR Dawgs and an AR Bearing and Dual Carbontex Drags available domestically with a 5 year warranty.
I believe Alutechnos may make lefty big game reels. Not 100% sure.
I hope this helps.
I am also right handed, but fish left... I like having my dominant hand on the rod. I fly fish, spin and conventionally fish this way. There is no right way, just do what feels right. I do have to agree, I am limited in my choices of reels, but always manage to find one that will fit the bill.
Brent
Just supply and demand --
I have bail springs and bail wires for Mitchell 301, 303, 307, 309, 409 -- plenty of them, but never needed more than a couple in 30+ years.
Just 1 out of 25.
Best,
Fred
I'm a lefty, and I have zero issues with what is called a "right-handed" casting reel. Cast with the left, reel with the right. It's perfect, no switching hands. Most modern spinning reels are convertible, so no problems there either.
Tom
I am also a lefty and prefer to hold and cast with the rod in my left hand, and wind the reel with my right.
It feels more natural to have the rod in my dominant, strongest hand.
Mike.
I like to have both right cranking casters and left cranking spinners available and trade up using both.
If jigging, with iron, all day, and using the same arm gets real tiring.
Switch it up.
Steve
Glad to ambidextrous.