11-08-2009, 02:22 PM
I can't help you on the rod-n-reel, but I'm curious about which hand people use to cast and retrieve. Being left handed, I cast with my left and reel with my right. I hold the rod in my left hand, cup the baitcaster and thumb the spool, and that works for me. I can't imagine improving on what I do, because the greater dexterity is needed to make the cast. You also need your strong arm in control for hook sets, right? And my right hand seems good enough for working the reel.
That said, I do look at left-handed reels from time to time and wonder. As a wader who now fishes from a float, I'm pretty much a solitary angler, usually by myself, so I don't get much chance to compare notes to see how right-handed people cast and retieve. So do most right-handers cast with their left or right arm?
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That said, I do look at left-handed reels from time to time and wonder. As a wader who now fishes from a float, I'm pretty much a solitary angler, usually by myself, so I don't get much chance to compare notes to see how right-handed people cast and retieve. So do most right-handers cast with their left or right arm?
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