left handed reel?

[MeePee_99]

All my reels are left handed now, it feels alot better and you get alot more control over your rod. It took me about a day to change and be able to wind both left and right handed.

[GPB]

Good one Mrs Ronnie H.

I cast with left, lift with left and wind with right. Why? 'Cause I'm ruddy comfportable that way .... just like any other person going right hander. It's like any thing else in life ... do it the way you're comfortable with and bugger the others.

Cheers

Spot on, well put, it's OK to play around with light gear and slow winding with your LH [I don't see the point myself], but when strength, extra speed and coordination is needed stick with what is comfortable, how many overhead jiggers and game fisherman wind with their left hand .
IMO the only reason this topic comes up is because Spinning Reels 'can' change the handles around to suit LEFT HANDED FISHERMAN

[Hairy_Harold]

I'm all over the shop really, I prefer handling a fish with the rod in my right hand, I wind smoother with rod in left hand, put better action into the lure with rod in my right hand, and fish soft plastic on a baitcaster with rod in my left (this is with baitcasters). I only really started using left hand wind because I didn't like swapping hands after casting as I was missing bites on the drop from stuffing around.

[oldboot]

Can I have two bob each way .

As I mentioned before peoples level of co ordination in left and right hands varies considerably.

Baden Powell ( the scout dude) had a party trick of signing his name with both hands at the same time.....he was not naturaly ambidexterous but he deliberaly trained himself to do basic tasks with both hands.....

Now I am nowhere near that good, but i can swing a hammer left handed almost as well as right and I can do most cuts on a wood lathe left handed.

But I know people who couldn't pick their nose left handed.

All that considered.
I am looking at my winding options.
I wind an alvey right handed
I wind a threadline left handed
I'm thinking about winding a bait caster left handed.

I have resolved that if I am fishing multiple rods...and one of them is an alvey, I am best rigging my threadlins to wind right handed....I have got myself tangled up once or twice.

I am looking at my options for spinning.....I can definitely wind faster right handed....but if I practiced... would I be able to achieve the same with the left.
Which would allow me to cast right and not change hands.

There is a problem casting with the left on a threadline, particularly if you cast with you finger on the edge of the spool.... and that is the direction the line comes off the spool....casting left handed the line cathes on the fingertip and under the fingernail.

I do note that the vast majority of the australian fishing shows we see them winding with the right.........

cheers

[GPB]

Learning to wind baitcasters could be an expensive exercise Oldboot, as you need LH reels

[oldboot]

There is a cheap option that is close in feel to a baitcaster.......a spincast or closed face reel.

They are overhead, fit on a bait cast rod and most of them can be handled left or right.

I picked up a diawa silvercats off fleabay and it seems thet left hand wind with a bait caster might be OK... but I'll play with the spincast for a while.

cheers