Home Forums Fishing Freshwater Looking for Left Hand Bait Caster

I am looking for a good left-hand retrieve bait caster.

Any suggestions?

Needing it for fishing in northern Canada. Some trolling and a little casting for northerns.

I see in another post recommendations for Curado.

Suggestions for model? Anyone have one for sale?

I have two curados. You will like them

I'm a fan of the Shimano Calcutta line. All the Calcuttas with a model number ending in 1 are lefties, 101,201,401 etc. They'll probably hold a bit more to a lot more line depending on size to the lopro style reels like the Curado.

I have 12 LH Curados I use for Bass fishing and they have served me well.

Have 2 Curado's, 1 Chronarch, and a Calcutta all left hand.

For the money I'd go with the Curado.


A while ago had the itch for an upper end bait caster. At the time the Shimano model was pushing $500.

Bought it and couldn't cast with it,backlash every cast.

Thought it was defective. Returned it and bought another Curado and never looked back.

Where is the best place to buy?