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| I always thought more people were right handed and those people have more strenght in their right hands. If this is true then I would assume most right handed people cast with their right hands over their right shoulders. I would also assume then that most right handed people palm their reels with their right hand or fore grip their rods with their right hands. So then I would also assume that most right handed people also turn the reel crank with their left hands.
Have I deduced correctly that most musky fishermen are either ambidextrious or left handed as right cranking reels far outsell left??????? |
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Location: Oshkosh | This has been brought up before, in length as I recall, do a search and read that post.
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Location: Michigan | Pretty sure there are more right handed fishermen than left handed. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I cast with my right hand over my right shoulder and then after the cast I change hands and reel in with my right hand on the handle. Not sure what that makes me  I have been told before I fish backwards with my spinning reel setup. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I cast both spinning and baitcasters with my right hand over right shoulder. However I reel my baitcasters with my right hand ( switch hands after/during cast) but with a spinning reel I crank with my left hand. I can't do either with the opposite hand. Weird huh. |
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| as a right handed i have learn to reel with my left for obvious reason.
hopefully good reel are now available in left handed model |
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| I cast and reel with my right hand, I feel I am more coordinated and have more power and stamina reeling with my right hand. |
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| I couldn't resist making the post. It doesn't take a lot of strenght to reel with a left hand. If I had to have someone hold my hand to save my life I would want them holding my hand with their strongest hand. So it makes no sense for right handed people to be using their weaker left hand for holding the reel and their stronger right hand for turning an easy crank. I don't get it??????? ha ha. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I cast and crank right-handed since when I started fishing with a baitcaster left-handed versions were not on the market with ABU. So...that is what I learned and have found it efficient enough to continue with.
I am one of those weird ones that is right handed at everything except shooting and cranking with a walleye spinning rod.
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | were talking casting and retrieving a bait not brain surgery? Do you really need an answer to this one? For you, I really hope opening day comes soon. The next thing youre likely to contemplate before the opener is why is Canadian bacon round???? and then how does a thermos know whether to keep things hot or cold things cold,....how do it know???
Good luck. |
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'dem themouses, dey KNOW, man... Don' know how, but dey KNOW! |
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Location: In the slop! | What difference does it make? Do what works for you! |
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Location: North Central IL USA | shaley - 2/7/2010 7:02 PM
I cast both spinning and baitcasters with my right hand over right shoulder. However I reel my baitcasters with my right hand ( switch hands after/during cast) but with a spinning reel I crank with my left hand.
same here. |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | The next thing youre likely to contemplate before the opener is why is Canadian bacon round????
That's Funny Stuff Karl |
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| I tease my right handed friends when they cast over their right shoulders and then switch hands on the reel to crank. I have a guide friend that teaches his right handed reeling clients to cast over their left shoulder.
Another guide friend of mine feels and I think I agree with that if you are casting on the port side of the boat a right reeling or right handed reel gives the fisherman more leverage for the hookset and on the starboard side a left handed or left cranking reel would allow for better hooksets.
I actually switch between right and left handed reels depending on fatigue and the situation at hand. I use a right handed reel for casting port side with pounders/bulldawgs or super ds. This year I will be using a left handed reel for casting dawgs/super ds on the starboard side. |
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Location: N.FIB | anybody could get used to doing things backwards if they had too,I have a buddy of mine who broke his right hand when he was younger,he said using the left hand was different but got the job done,lol. |
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| I am right handed and used to cast with my right arm and do the mid-air switch. A few years ago I read an article by Joe Bucher talking about right handers throwing with the left and it being more efficient. I decided to try it, it took about a season to develop the accuracy that I had with the right arm, but now after a few seasons, it almost feels odd to go back to the right. If I had to have some real accurate casts around wood or piers, etc, I would go back to the right arm while I was learning. I find it more efficient not having to switch while the bait is in the air and coming right out of the 8 and being ready to cast without switching hand positions. I figured it may boil down to a few more casts in a day and it beat trying to replace reels that I already had.
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| to set the hook i really like to use my most powerful arm |
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| I'm left handed but learned to become ambidextrious because a lot things are
built for a right handed people. Where did you ever come up with such a thing that most fisherman are left handed never heard this before.
The important thing life is to short so just fish!
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| I am right handed and cast and reel with my right. My fishing partner is right handed and reels left. Making it nice because if you start to wear down you can pick up the others rod and get a break, it jus takes a lttle getting used to. |
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| as a righty you will have more power by settin gthe hook to the strong side of your body....hence reeling with your right hand and setting to the right side of your body. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Guest - 2/10/2010 8:09 PM
as a righty you will have more power by settin gthe hook to the strong side of your body....hence reeling with your right hand and setting to the right side of your body.
I feel that is relative to what side of the boat you are fishing out of and what direction you are traveling (if you are) As was said before, using a left handed crank would do well fishing out of the starboard side moving forward since you are setting the hook across your body (twist with your body to get real power away from the fish)
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Location: deephaven mn | i throw a ball right handed, but use my fork in my left hand when eating canadian bacon, so i use a left handed reel
Edited by kap 2/11/2010 2:58 PM
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Location: Fairfield, IA | I am completely left handed. My RH is somewhat more useful than a pc of extra skin, but not much more.
Back 'in the day' when they did not make LH reels like they do now, there was not a choice but to learn how to cast and crank with both hands. Spincast and baitcast- cast left and use RH to crank; spinning - cast right and use LH to crank.
It seems now many can't use both hands - what a shame!
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Guess I'm lucky I cast over my left shoulder and reel with my right hand, no in air/mid cast rod/hand switching for me. Same same for Spinning setups and Baitcast setups.
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| i feel you will use the opposite hand you have learned to work the rod with to reel . i work the rod with my right hand , so i use a left-handed reel ....
Edited by pgersumky 2/12/2010 3:39 AM
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