Are you left or right handed ?

Brian K. Shaffer · Post by **Brian K. Shaffer** » 08/23/22 17:42

60 day POLL - Are you left or right handed ?

Follow up question - Do you wind with your left or right hand ?

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Being a left handed guy myself - I cast left and reel right handed.

flyrodman · Post by **flyrodman** » 08/23/22 17:46

Brian K. Shaffer wrote: ↑
08/23/22 17:42
60 day POLL - Are you left or right handed ?

Follow up question - Do you wind with your left or right hand ?

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Being a left handed guy myself - I cast left and reel right handed.

I'm in the same boat as you. cast left and reel right. That's the right way

JoeBolt · Post by **JoeBolt** » 08/23/22 18:07

Same here.

saddlemaker · Post by **saddlemaker** » 08/23/22 18:21

I am right handed, and reel with my left hand.
Years back I decided to learn how to cast with my left hand, and that saved a season a few years ago when I wrecked my right shoulder.
I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

St Vrain Angler · Post by **St Vrain Angler** » 08/23/22 18:50

Cast with right, reel with left.

Greg Reynolds · Post by **Greg Reynolds** » 08/23/22 18:53

I'm right handed and reel with the left. It's kept me from owning a few classic RHW Hardy reels, but switching the rod to the left hand to wind is awkward at best.

Short Tip · Post by **Short Tip** » 08/23/22 19:33

Right handed, reel right handed. It's only right! I've always done it that way because that's how we did it.

Switching the rod to the left hand takes a millisecond and I'm not even aware of doing it, it just happens.

jmcj1984 · Post by **jmcj1984** » 08/23/22 19:58

Right hand wind on single hand ,left hand on Spey,left hand on bait caster and both on spinning reel but I write with my left and throw with my right I need help

chsparkman · Post by **chsparkman** » 08/23/22 20:24

I'm right handed and I reel right handed. Only because I started that way as a kid.

jhuskey · Post by **jhuskey** » 08/23/22 20:26

Right handed - reel either left or right.

drifly · Post by **drifly** » 08/23/22 20:34

Cast right, reel right. My right hand is faster and definitely brighter than my left

AlexP · Post by **AlexP** » 08/23/22 20:41

I feel really stupid because I answered the poll incorrectly. I thought you meant with what hand I reel.... Anyway, Right handed and reel with my left. Thanks

TytLynz2U2 · Post by **TytLynz2U2** » 08/23/22 21:33

Right-handed, cast right*, reel right.

*With one-handed rods. But with two-handed rods I cast left hand up.

flyuvo · Post by **flyuvo** » 08/24/22 05:31

Right handed and reeling with what ever reel I‘m using, left with newer reels right with vintage reels …

ttrotter · Post by **ttrotter** » 08/24/22 05:46

Cast right, reel right.

NewUtahCaneAngler · Post by **NewUtahCaneAngler** » 08/24/22 07:31

I was born in the 60's and learned to fish with a spinning rod casting with my right hand and reeling with my left. This continued until 2017 when I took up fly fishing. I tried winding with my right hand, but like Greg, found it awkward. I only wind with my left hand.

Cheers,
Joe

GrsdLnr · Post by **GrsdLnr** » 08/24/22 08:30

Short Tip wrote: ↑
08/23/22 19:33
Right handed, reel right handed. It's only right! I've always done it that way because that's how we did it.

Switching the rod to the left hand takes a millisecond and I'm not even aware of doing it, it just happens.

X2

sawtelle8 · Post by **sawtelle8** » 08/24/22 09:04

I'm left-handed and learned to fish with my grandmother's old Bronson one-piece casting rod crappie pole (Bronson 63 ??) that was converted to "cast left-handed/reel right-handed". That preference stuck when I picked up fly fishing years later.

Wild Skies · Post by **Wild Skies** » 08/24/22 09:47

Right handed, reel left hand.

jeffkn1 · Post by **jeffkn1** » 08/24/22 11:17

Right handed but will reel with either, depending on the reel.
But I always reel with my left hand when it comes to spinning.

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