Changing Hands?

[Bobby Bass]

How many of you cast and then change hands to retrieve with the same hand you cast with? I cast both spinning and baitcasting reels right handed and retrieve left handed, I noticed on a few fishing shows that a lot of people will cast right handed then move the rod to the left hand to retrieve with their right hand. How may others do this?

[Daze Off]

I cast both spinning and baitcasters primarily with right hand (sometimes two hands) and I leave the spinning rod in my right hand and reel with my left but move the baitcasting rod to my left hand and reel with my right...strange!

Daze Off

[TurnUpTheFishing]

For the most part thats what I do. With baitcasters I cast right handed and reel right handed. That is unless Im flippin. In that case I hold the rod with my left during the flip and while reeling. For spinning I use to cast right handed and switched hands to reel with my right since thats what I was used to from baitcasting. After this past ice fishing season I prefer to cast right handed and reel with my left though.

I think it was one of the recent bassmasters that had an article in which the author claimed he was outfished by a partner three fish to his one all because his partner didnt switch hands after casting and resulted in the partner having more time for more casts. Now if you ask me thats bull. It takes less than one second for me to switch my rod from the right to the left hand.

[RK]

Heh...I'm totally screwed up on this....

For bass I cast baitcasting and spinning right-handed. But I reel left-handed with spinning and right-handed with baitcasting. So I switch hands baitcasting - unless I'm pitching jigs or spinnerbaits close to cover, then I don't switch, and do this goofy underhanded roll cast sort of thing...a habit I developed rifling short hard casts in thick rushes growing up.

For muskies though I reel right-handed and cast left-handed - I hold the foregrip of the rod and never let it go when I cast. I've been doing it that way so long now that if I tried to switch hands with a muskie rod I'd backlash like you can't believe and probably break my jaw with the rod butt besides...

There's no right or wrong way - just whatever you're comfortable with...

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[SCUMFROG]

Cast right, reel right. Cause that's the right way to.

[ikeslayer]

i think most people now this is most people cast everything right handed and then reel spinning with their left and b.cs with their right hand. Not sure why it is this way but that is the way i would say probably 80% of the people i come into contact with do it. ike

[grab the net]

I am a switcher in the bait casting venue. Have tried left handed reels. I can do it, but don't really want to spend the money on 13 new left handed reels. The time spent switching from one hand to the next hasn't cost me to many fish yet. Spinning, cast right, reel left.

[jalberg]

I cast left handed and reel left handed. I like not having to switch hands during the cast. Especially when I want to have conrtol of the bait when it hits the water such as with buzzbaits.

[st.crioxfishin]

I cast with my right hand for both baitcaster and spinning. I reel with my left hand with a spinning rod and reel with my right hand with a baitcaster.

With my baitcaster I have learned to switch hands while the bait is still in the air so I don't find that I'm at to much of a disadvantage when it comes to fish hitting the lures right as the bait hits the water.

[delmuts]

for spinning i cast right handed and reel with the left. bait casters, i cast with either the right hand or left, but reel with my right hand .

[OptiMax]

I started casting with my right hand. Spinning reels I have left hand crank and casting reels right hand crank. The past few years, I've practiced casting with my left hand so I can alternate when fatigue sets in. So, I guess I switch casting hands quite a bit.