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 JimP.fishnbanjosplace |
Left Hand Wind to Right and Visa Versa |
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Posts: 54 07/02/2009 11:08 |
If you wind with your Left hand and a reel comes along that you really like, and is expensive (your definition of expensive here) but is a Right hand wind
will you buy it? Same question for those who use their Right hand to wind and a Left hand wind reel comes up for sale.
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Rockthief |
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Posts: 362 07/02/2009 11:36 |
you bet and I will fish with it. Enough of my reels are one way wind so I have learned to wind either way. No big deal to me. ALso, some people buy reels for
collections only and don't care about left or right
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Finn |
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Posts: 64 07/02/2009 11:59 |
I wind with my left. I will probably pass on a RHW unless it is a good deal or I really like it. I probably won't fish it.
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Larry Swearingen |
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Posts: 410 07/02/2009 12:02 |
No. I won't buy a right hand only wind fly reel unless I think I can
convert the spring to favor Left Hand wind. I do have a couple of RHW reels that I just haven't bothered converting though. I'll probably sell them. Not that I have anything against righties I just can't do it well. When I try to hold the grip in my left and wind right the tip bounces around so much that the line wraps around the rod. So why bother screwing around with it. I've got 2 Perfects but I bought the ones w/o the line guide so I can fish'em left handed. Larry Swearingen |
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fishnbanjo |
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Posts: 6093 07/02/2009 12:03 the Canefather |
More often then not the answer would be no since I suffer a 65% use of my right hand so reeling left hand is important............
banjo
Fly fishing is my Quisisana (the name is Italian for "place where one heals one's self.") "...... SLG Visit my website about Bamboo rods... Fishnbanjo's Place |
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 Marty |
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Posts: 203 07/02/2009 12:15 |
If I like the reel handedness is not an issue. If it is changeable I usually use it LHW out of habit.
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teter |
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Posts: 1344 07/02/2009 12:15 |
I cast right and reel right. This happens to widen my choices, and allows me to spend even more money that I don't have.
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quashnet |
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Posts: 2653 07/02/2009 12:18 Moderatus Muscae |
I had a friend who suffered intermittent neurological problems in his hands. Since he was never certain in advance of a fishing trip which hand would be in
best condition, he trained himself to be fully ambidextrous, casting or reeling with either hand. He set aside a year (he fished very often) and forced himself
to use the hands untrained for casting and for reeling. He looked really bad on the stream for a long time, but he didn't give up and he reached his goal.
Among the many benefits was complete flexibility when casting in cross winds, of particular usefulness in fishing the big rods that he liked to use (he sold me
a 8'6" Payne because he felt it was too small). I thought that his dedication was admirable and intelligent, but I never mustered the resolve to do
the same thing. So I am hopelessly right-hand-wind with a fly reel. I've reeled that way for decades, ever since I was a little kid.
Quashnet's Paul H. Young Rod Database has photos and descriptions of over
465 PHY Co. rods, plus catalogs, accessories, etc. Thank you to all
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Horton Creek |
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Posts: 611 07/02/2009 12:23 |
Again 99% a No. Only exception is a RHW Pflueger GEM which belonged to my Dad which gets fished a couple times a year with his old Shakespeare rod. I did buy
a Pflueger 1392 and a 1494 from the 1930's because they are cool and cost less than $100, but they sit on my shelf at home. I plan to fish them someday or
let my kids use them. I have no desire to buy say a RHW Hardy, VonHoffe, Dingley etc because I am a fisherman not a collector.
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MFRS |
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Posts: 476 07/02/2009 12:56 |
I might as I am RHW with the fly reel and LHW with the spinning reel, go figure.
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cdmoore |
Buy it | #10 | ||
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Posts: 2871 07/02/2009 12:57 Moderator |
Just make sure you can resell for an acceptable price: what you paid; more than what you paid; or, a small enough loss that you might call it "learning
money". Suggest buying a cheap reel to train yourself on RHW, then pick up the nice ones.
C
"If you finish in 7 days, I'll pay you for 10. If you finish in 10 days, I'll pay you for 7." ~Ballykissangel
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keebranch |
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Posts: 8 07/02/2009 23:32 |
My modern reels are set up LHW and I cast right handed, but for my vintage reels I prefer RHW since most are already set up that way.
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bow river |
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Posts: 1523 07/03/2009 00:54 |
i couldn't care if righty or lefty , i can go both ways , and i think everyone else could if they really wanted to , you just go to the river fishing and
take the reel that you want to learn on , if you really want to learn to use both hands then just keep going and take the reel you need to learn on , your not
going to go fishing and pack up and go home , you have to really say you want to learn , it will suck at first , it will feel really ugly , and yes you'll
make mistakes , but it will only get better
what would you do if they only made all fly reels in the wrong way for you , give the sport up , i'm sure back in the earlly days when people didn't have extra money for a special order reel in lets say lefty , that they just didn't go fishing , they wanted to fish then they had to learn , i myself didn't have much trouble with it , picked it up fast , they could cut my hand off and i'd still figure a way to cast and reel with just the one hand if i had to , after you beat it and have it down with the so called wrong hand , then the next step is trying to cast with your other arm , it's alot tougher and at first '' look out '', but again it only gets better
Rich
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Finn |
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Posts: 65 07/03/2009 01:40 |
Has anybody ever explained why fly reels were mostly RHW? Don't most people cast Right Handed? It seems only natural that one would cast right handed and
reel left handed.
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keebranch |
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Posts: 9 07/03/2009 10:52 |
I was told that with the US introduction of the French made Mitchell spinning reels - that under rod mounted reels found favor as left hand wind. Prior to this
all the fly reels were RHW, and interestingly enough for right hand casters with the knob facing right, there is less of a chance of the line wrapping up on
the crank.
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winston59 |
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Posts: 133 07/04/2009 02:34 |
I do two things really well left handed, eat with my fork and write. I own left and right hand reels. For me it is pretty easy to reel with either right or
left hand.
The issue is fighting the fish with the rod hand, not as smooth with my left hand holding the rod, winding in line is not the issue... So for those who said no, do you have trouble moving the rod to put the proper pressure on the fish? Or do you have trouble turning the reel handle? |
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Posts: 6098 07/04/2009 06:45 the Canefather |
Finn,
From what I have read over the years the reel was made RHW as it was generally the way folks used them, i.e. they cast right handed and then would place the rod in the left hand using the right hand to the reel, this would feel unnatural to me but I suppose if this was how you learned to do it ............................
banjo
Fly fishing is my Quisisana (the name is Italian for "place where one heals one's self.") "...... SLG Visit my website about Bamboo rods... Fishnbanjo's Place |
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Posts: 1422 07/04/2009 21:16 Formerly Drake |
Finn, the conventional wisdom is that back in the day, people were advised to crank their reel with their dominant hand - for most that would be right, hence,
RHW. To my way of thinking, the dominant hand should be handling the rod and the fish and the non-dominant hand (left, in my case) should get the mechanical
assist from the reel (LHW). But, that's just me.
Piscator Non Solum Piscatur
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afgantrout |
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Posts: 598 07/04/2009 22:41 |
Uhhh...what Drake Bob said. Oh yes, and I do fish all my many RHW reels frequently, but I will probably get a new Perfect in LHW for the best of both worlds.
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tiptop |
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Posts: 584 07/05/2009 07:09 |
I reel LHW after decades of LHW spinning reels and for me it's not the reeling RHW that's hard, it's the line management. Clamping and releasing
the line with my left forefinger is really awkward. Automatic mending left handed -- forget it. But I guess I'm talking about left handed fishing.
Passing the rod back and forth just seems really inefficient for a right handed caster but I suppose it's all in what you're used to.
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JR SPEY |
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Posts: 233 07/05/2009 09:27 |
Man I was hoping to avoid this one. It's the type of thread one usually sees during the off season when everyone has the shack nasties. Fly reels were
originally set up for RH because virtually all other reels were also set up that way (plugcasters, etc.) The introduction of the under the rod spinning reel
was the beginning of the change. Lee Wulff then began encouraging flyfishers, and fly reel makers, to make their reels set up for LH, or at least for them to
be convertible to LH. I know I've said this numerous times here, so forgive me if you're tired of it, but which hand one cranks with means little in
the vast majority of freshwater fishing. Only a few Atlantic salmon and perhaps some steelhead run far enough to make which hand you crank with much of an
issue in North America. Interestingly, Bogdan still assumes that salmon fishermen will want to crank RH and charges a premium to do his drag reels LH. Check
with serious saltwater fly fishers, and you'll find that virtually all of them crank with their dominant hand. Their being able to crank fast and for long
periods of time is way more important than switching the rod to the non-dominant side, which is done only once during the time the fish is on. For those of you
who think you're ambidextrous, try brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand some time. Or as one Aussie said, "Try whipping little skippy with
your non-dominant hand." Again, for trout, warmwater, and even most steelheading (especially in the Great Lakes) it really doesn't matter. Do what
you're comfortable doing. But many guys make the decision to switch to dominant hand cranking when they get the saltwater bug.
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