Do you use Right or a Left hand retrieve on your Baitcasters? I’m just curious. options are: Right / I’m Right Handed Left / I’m Right Handed Right / I’m Left Handed Left / I’m Left...

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Do you use Right or a Left hand retrieve on your Baitcasters?

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Feb 28, 2021 10:50:30 #

FS Digest

I’m just curious.

options are:

Right / I’m Right Handed
Left / I’m Right Handed
Right / I’m Left Handed
Left / I’m Left Handed

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by BassStrategy

Feb 28, 2021 11:52:51 #

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

Left / I’m Right Handed

Feb 28, 2021 11:59:58 #

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

I am right handed and use both, but it only occurred to me about 3 years ago to purchase left handed reels to match my spinning gear. No need to switch hands after the cast. My RH reels may be passed on to the kids

Feb 28, 2021 12:37:30 #

Huntm22 Loc: Northern Utah. - West Haven

OJdidit wrote:

Exactly what I did OJ. Only a couple right hand reels left on trolling rods. Hard to give up the old Penns!

Feb 28, 2021 13:16:31 #

bknecht Loc: Northeast pa

FS Digest wrote:

I’m just curious.

options are:

Right / I’m Right Handed
Left / I’m Right Handed
Right / I’m Left Handed

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by BassStrategy

Left retrieve and I’m right handed. Most people that are right handed use spinning reels with left hand retrieve, why switch it up? I have used right hand baitcasters and for me it is extremely awkward.

Feb 28, 2021 13:17:43 #

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

I am ambidextrous, so I switch out all the time. Sometimes even switch the crank on a spinning reel if it's suitable for a guest. If I am fishing in a boat, I will cast with the off side of another fisherman just for safety. I have never owned a bait casting reel that was left hand retrieve, but the next one I purchase will be. Just Sayin...RJS

Feb 28, 2021 13:27:23 #

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

charlykilo wrote:

Left / I’m Right Handed

Ditto

Feb 28, 2021 23:54:56 #

DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

Left/right handed...🐟on

Mar 1, 2021 09:35:11 #

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

I'm getting the impression that many rightness have taken to using the left hand crank on bc's. I know I have, but all my salt bottom bouncers are still right retrieve.

Mar 1, 2021 13:02:56 #

Ben Bragg Loc: Dayton Ohio

LH retrieve. Right handed

Mar 1, 2021 13:15:29 #

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Ben Bragg wrote:

LH retrieve. Right handed

Me too. Right handed, left retrieve.

Mar 1, 2021 13:30:18 #

Salesrep Loc: Maryland

I guess I am the oddball.
Right hand and right retrieving.
Been using a bait caster for so long and when I started they never made a left hand retrieve, so after many years of use, I could not get use to the left hand retrieve.
Salesrep

Mar 1, 2021 14:00:24 #

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Both mostly right. Im right handed. Spinning reels all left hand

Mar 1, 2021 14:12:00 #

gmorariu Loc: Coos Bay, OR

Left.... I am right handed. Never made sense to cast with your right hand and switch hands on the retrieve. You will find most tournament fisherman use a left hand retrieve. Saves time and you will get more casts during a tournament.

Mar 1, 2021 14:16:59 #

RAM1Fish Loc: Minnesota

Same here, for 70 years😊

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