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Cast right, crank left.
In my younger days, I remember getting excited and get both hands gyrating!
Get close and wack em hard!
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I am right handed but I cast with my left and reel with my right. Except for fly fishing then I cast right hand and strip line with the left. That's just how I learned from the start.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1795
"Give me liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry 1775
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I'm right handed. I reel with my left hand, whether I'm flyfishing, spin fishing or using a conventional reel. I have better rod control with my right.
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My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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I'm left-handed, I cast with my left, reel with my right no matter what kind of rod and reel I’m using.
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Right handed so cast with my right hand, reel with my left. Tried setting up a flyrod to be able to reel with the right hand thinking it would be faster if needing to recover line in a hurry, after switching the rod over to my left hand. That did not last long! For a trolling rod I can reel with my right hand, but have only done that with single action reels. I can cast a flyrod with my left hand, not as well as my right hand, but on occasion where needs must. Would not try it with a spinning rod as releasing the line would at some point also include releasing the rod! Oddly enough in hockey I shoot left handed!
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I mainly saltwater fish these days but learned on fresh. I’m right handed and cast right, move the rod to my left and retrieve/reel right handed. My left hand is mainly used for holding a beer as its functionally useless for pretty much anything else. I have had a couple of guides comment on how odd it is to them that I switch hands but it works fine for me.
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Cast right, reel right, cause that's the way I've done it since childhood.
Just down the road from The City of Lost Souls in the Land of the Blind. Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla
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Right hand dominant. Casting right hand, line control with right index finger, reel with left hand. If I cast left hand, I usually, but not always, switch the rod to my right hand or back and forth while playing a fish, but always reel line in with my left. I do not set up the reel for a left hand cast, right hand reel.
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