Stupid Question

[RattleTrapper]

I have wondered this for years, and have yet to ask anyone that could give me an answer that made any sense. Why is it that when using a spinning reel, it's "right handed" if the rod is in your right hand and you reel with your left. However, with a baitcaster, it's "right handed" if you do the exact opposite. I am right handed and I have always used a left handed baitcaster. It makes more sense to me to have the rod in my dominant hand. Anybody know why?

 

[flip1up]

I'm like you, dont get it. I have seen people cranking spinning reels with their left hand then pick up a casting reel and crank with their right ??????</p>

 

[ole blue]

Im like you everone says IM backwards. So I ask them which hand they crank there spinning reel with and they say left then i say why dont you use a left handed baitcaster. They say It dont feel right. And I say you call me backwards.

 

[Guest]

I wounder the same thingemoScratch I went out and got my first bait caster and im right handed and the handel is on the left. lol Needles to say i cant use the thing at all doesnt feel right. So its in the closet emoBang

 

[Gator]

I with you, makes little sense to me. All my reels, including bait casters are left hand cranks. I like to keep it simple.emoScratch

 

[puddle jumper]

Im with Gator,
I buy left handed bait casters for the same reason, cranking with my right hand just doesent feel right to me..emoScratch
Puddle...emoUSA

 

[MrWiskers]

Pretty dumb. I change my spinning reels so I can reel with my right hand. Everyone that sees this asks me if I am left handed.

 

[CATCHMAN]

I learned with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel. Back then reels didn't have reversable handles. I buy all left hand wind reels. LH baitcasters usually aren't readily available. I hate going deep sea fishing because they usually don't keep LH reels. I caught an 8-foot shark with the wrong hand. Wore me slap out emoGeezer emoGeezer .

 

[luv2fsh]

hey catchman a bluegill would make you tired.

 

[RangerRob]

For me, switching hands with a baitcaster actually feels more natural since you have to change your hand position anyway from casting to palming ... unless you reel with your hand behind your reel, which feels really goofy. It's easier with a spinning reel because your hand never changes position.

 

[Fuzzy]

Being someone who grew up ambidextrous (pitched both hands in little league/high school), it's always been funny to me. I golf right handed, but putt left handed because I don't "think" about the putt or alignment. I like cranking with my left hand because it just feels "weird" with my right hand, something that other people already shared.
If you want to see some interesting statistics on "dominant hands", look how many American hockey players shoot right handed. This is not the "correct" way for a dominant right hand hockey player, they should be shooting from their left side left with their dominant hand on top of the stick. Americans end up doing this because we learn baseball first, where we get used to setting up at a plate right handed. I blame my parents for teaching me baseball with a left handers catchers mitt, and then giving me right handed gloves. I do almost everything left handed..write, eat food, hit right handed in softball to place a ball, left for power..I am all messed up!

 

[josh.schreiber]

i dunno dude. i just use right and left hand reels

 

[Guest]

i found out tht just a stick works good and fells fine in both hands lolemoBigsmile

 

[Guest]

Not sure but it does come in handy if you learn to use both, gives your hands and arms a rest if you can switch out through out the day.