Left or Right handed reels?

Bat righthanded
Play ping pong righthanded
Fish righthanded
Buy a new spinning reel ...flip that handle over to the right side. Just can't imagine doing it backwards

I'm right handed. Cast with my right (if I want to be precise/accurate) and reel with my right. It takes a milisecond to switch hands after casting but I can cast & reel with both hands...while holding a beer with my third hand.

Dot

That's sucks.....it's good to be normal 

How would you know??   

Cause the reel manufacturers are charging weirdos an extra $50 for your colored left handed reels.   

I think he means how do you know what's normal?

That's sucks.....it's good to be normal 

How would you know??   

Cause the reel manufacturers are charging weirdos an extra $50 for your colored left handed reels.   

I think he means how do you know what's normal?

.........cause me......and the rest of the right handed world..........and the manufacturers said so.   

That's sucks.....it's good to be normal 

How would you know??   

Cause the reel manufacturers are charging weirdos an extra $50 for your colored left handed reels.   

I think he means how do you know what's normal?

.........cause me......and the rest of the right handed world..........and the manufacturers said so.

Manufacturers are trying to make money off of the normal right handed people who want left hand retrieve reels 

Normal? 

Right handed.

Spinning left hand on handle.
Baitcasting right hand on handle.
Conventional right hand on handle.

With bait casting and conventional reels, I often end up switching to "underhanded" by dropping the reel below the rod during a long fight (like when using a spinning reel). Works fine
and you can then use your strong arm on the rod. Looks like you don't know what you're doing, but it actually helps when you're reeling in a heavy fish and the left (weaker) arm is turning to rubber.   
 

Right handed, but lefty with lefty reels.  Right hand controls the rod, the cast, the thumbing of the spool, etc.  Left hand only has to turn the crank, and then grab the gaff or net to land the fish.  Can't understand why someone would want to switch hands after casting. 

I may get a Righty reel though for trolling.  Like Salty. mentioned once, it's nice to be able to reel in your second line (in rod holder) without having to put down the rod with a fish on it.

Lincounter reels are few and far between for Leftys.  I'd love to get a small one for trolling for trout/kokanee/salmon.  Think that Diawa makes some, but haven't seen them in person yet.

I'm defective ....

   I'm right handed.  My spinning reels I set to lefty but my casting/round body reels I use righty & change hands with them.  Just feels right to me!

interesting topic. 

I am right dominate.  I normally use spinning rods and reels.  I cast right and reel left.

However I recently got my casting rod and reel.. The reel is right. Since its for jigging I don't cast. However I don't have an issue reeling right. A bit awkward at first but I don't have an issue.   I will follow the majority and use right hand reels for casting. No sense of limiting myself too reels and be different. I will try and practice casting with left. Just like shooting its a trained muscle memory. Im right eye dominate. When I was trained to shoot in a weaver stance with a handgun, I would squint left eye. After weeks and thousands of rounds I trained myself to have both eyes open.

As a kid I remember I was left hand dominate.  My mother would smack my hand when she sees me use it as a writing hand.  I will do the same to my son if he is a lefty.  Most things are made for right hand use.

It all takes getting use to...  If the majority of casting reels are leftty. Im sure we will make adjustments.

Al, 
I just saw the new Okuma Cold Water at Mel Cottons.   It's a low profile baitcaster with line counter and clicker.  It has 25 lbs of drag too.   It comes in right or left for $159.99.
I'm right handed and like lefties for baitcasting.  With my right hand,  I can feel bites better and get quicker and stronger hook sets.   For conventional, I use righties.  The left hand holds the rod and guides the line in.

interesting topic. 

I am right dominate.  I normally use spinning rods and reels.  I cast right and reel left.

However I recently got my casting rod and reel.. The reel is right. Since its for jigging I don't cast. However I don't have an issue reeling right. A bit awkward at first but I don't have an issue.   I will follow the majority and use right hand reels for casting. No sense of limiting myself too reels and be different. I will try and practice casting with left. Just like shooting its a trained muscle memory. Im right eye dominate. When I was trained to shoot in a weaver stance with a handgun, I would squint left eye. After weeks and thousands of rounds I trained myself to have both eyes open.

As a kid I remember I was left hand dominate.  My mother would smack my hand when she sees me use it as a writing hand.  I will do the same to my son if he is a lefty.  Most things are made for right hand use.

It all takes getting use to...  If the majority of casting reels are leftty. Im sure we will make adjustments.

Forcing a kid to change dominant hands doesn't seem like its worth the gas.

I have a righty and a lefty, and I have never once thought that the lefty was inconvenienced by being left handed.

Another righty here who fishes "left handed" conventional and bait casting reels.

Switching hands makes no sense. With my lefty reels, I can cast (with right hand), then flick the crank with my right middle finger to engage the reel and take up slack.

Switching hands makes no sense.

Makes perfect sense to me.  That's what I grew up using, cause it was the status quo and felt natural. Switching hands is second nature and has zero effect on how I work baits or play fish. I've heard just about every aspect of the pro-leftie movement on efficiency, being "ready" or "making sense" but the effort expended is negligible.

Trying to switch now would be like learning to drive on the left side of the road....or a right side driving vehicle....just plain weird and will likely result in cooties 

   

I think it just comes down to what you used when you first went fishing.  For me it was a spinning rod, left handled. For Quinn we bought him a ice fishing rod with a spinning reel (left) and he played and played with it and the hookless lures I'd tie on there for him to try and fish with.  When we got him a Superman Rod, Righty Spincaster, he would cast it right handed, then flip it over and reel backwards with his left hand    Lil' Dude caught a LMB at Lexington that way, and it was funnier than hell!