Am I The Only Crazy One?

[Violinguy]

In total, I have 3 spinning and 2 casting setups, all of which I use regularly.  For some reason, I prefer to have my spinning rigs as left-hand retrieve and my casting as right-hand.  I've tried a few times to switch the spinning reels since they are switchable but it just doesn't feel right.  As a left handed person, I'm already a little strange but...

[Tywithay]

Most of the guys I fish with do the exact same thing...maybe all of them. I fish with all my handles on the right side. I'm naturally left-handed, but used my right for a long period of time when I had surgery on my left wrist. Now, I am just as capable with my right, if not more. I can cast with both, but prefer to retrieve with my right hand.

[Raul]

All my reels have the handle on the right side and I´m a righty.

[aavery2]

Fishing your reels in a manner that is comfortable to you is all that matters. LH or RH retrieve has been and will be debated until reels that crank themselves are available.

[BrianinMD]

You are like most people I know, including myself. Its all personal preference nothing more. The key is to be comfortable, no need to worry about what all the reasons others will tell you its wrong.

[sparky241]

I have both left and right but I'm trying to get all left hand retrieve, I am right handed but always retrieved with my left hand, I just feel out of place with a right hand retrieve

[fisherrw]

my dad is the same way!

[SirSnookalot]

Fishing your reels in a manner that is comfortable to you is all that matters. LH or RH retrieve has been and will be debated until reels that crank themselves are available.

Electric reels have been around for years............not your ideal bass set up.

[Violinguy]

my dad is the same way!

 

My dad actually turns spinning reels upside down for the retrieve.  I never quite understood it, but he taught me to fish and has caught lots and lots of fish over the years.

 

Good to know I'm not the only ambidextrous-retrieve angler.  It's funny, the only reason I even noticed how I like my retrieve is when I ordered my casting rigs a few years ago and had to choose.  I chose right hand retrieve without thinking since I'm left handed and then after I got 'em set up and in use noticed that my spinning rigs are left-hand retrieve.  Oh well, whatever works.

[livetofish28]

My dad actually turns spinning reels upside down for the retrieve.  I never quite understood it, but he taught me to fish and has caught lots and lots of fish over the years.

 

Good to know I'm not the only ambidextrous-retrieve angler.  It's funny, the only reason I even noticed how I like my retrieve is when I ordered my casting rigs a few years ago and had to choose.  I chose right hand retrieve without thinking since I'm left handed and then after I got 'em set up and in use noticed that my spinning rigs are left-hand retrieve.  Oh well, whatever works.

I'm left handed and reel with my right hand with the reel in my left and the spinning reels are the opposite so now your not. Or maybe were both crazy lol

Tight lines

Andrew

[deadadrift89]

Too funny!! I'm in the same boat. Also my flyrods just like spinning have to be right. But my baitcasters have to cast left or disaster

[smalljaw67]

I'm left handed and I'm exactly the same, my spinning set up I prefer the handle on the left side and my casting set up I like the handle on the right. It is great for casting as you don't have to switch hands but you do when spinning but I find it surprisingly natural and it is automatic, if it isn't broke, don't fix it!!

[papajoe222]

In answer to the topic title,  Yes you are.  The rest of us that do the same as you aren't crazy because we don't worry about silly stuff like this. Now if you're talking winding the tag end of your line clockwise vs. counter clockwise when tying knots,  that's something to worry about.

[jtharris3]

I'm right handed. All of my spinning reels have the handle on the left. My baitcaster's handles are on the right. I never really thought about it until this thread. I guess it all boils down to how you were taught.

[tcbass]

In total, I have 3 spinning and 2 casting setups, all of which I use regularly. For some reason, I prefer to have my spinning rigs as left-hand retrieve and my casting as right-hand. I've tried a few times to switch the spinning reels since they are switchable but it just doesn't feel right. As a left handed person, I'm already a little strange but...

My bro and I are just like you.

We are both right handed. Our bait casters are on the right side of the reel and our spinning reels are on the left side.

[Jimmers82]

Guess I'm crazy too I'm right handed left on spinning and right on b/c

[TorqueConverter]

In total, I have 3 spinning and 2 casting setups, all of which I use regularly.  For some reason, I prefer to have my spinning rigs as left-hand retrieve and my casting as right-hand.  I've tried a few times to switch the spinning reels since they are switchable but it just doesn't feel right.  As a left handed person, I'm already a little strange but...

 

This is how normal people use spinning and baitcasting reels.  By "normal" i mean right handed.  As a lefty this is very strange.

[Oregon Native]

A number of years ago and many years working out west in sporting goods stores I had heard from a large reel/rod manufacturer that left handed casting reels were more of a west coast thing for some reason.  Thus the slowness over the years to get more and more left handed crankin reels.  Now we have a pretty darn good selection. 

Personally I like casting with my right and just keeping it there and using my left for reeling.  Both spin and crank.  Took awhile but never could figure out why do I need to change hands when I'm right handed.  I mean I don't pick up a sandwhich with my right and eat with my left!

Tight Lines

[MIbassin]

I Learned to reel lefty on both types of reels, anything else feels unnatural!

[tcbass]

I wonder if it has to do with ambidextrous-ness.

People who are truly ambidextrous can probably have their reel handle on the same side for bait casters and spinning reels. People who are not ambidextrous cannot.

I'm right handed and my left hand is very uncoordinated. In fact there is not much I can do with my left hand besides basic stuff. I can't write with it or do anything intricate.

[coak]

I wonder if it has to do with ambidextrous-ness.

People who are truly ambidextrous can probably have their reel handle on the same side for bait casters and spinning reels. People who are not ambidextrous cannot.

I'm right handed and my left hand is very uncoordinated. In fact there is not much I can do with my left hand besides basic stuff. I can't write with it or do anything intricate.

I fish this way as a lefty. Both right retrieve on either type of reel. For me it boils down to holding the rod in my dominant hand for hook sets and fighting fish, as well as controlling the cast.

[Choporoz]

I'm left handed.  But right-armed.  (Write left handed, but golf, bowl, bat rightie.)

Not the least bit ambidextrous. 

 

All my handles are on the right.  When my wife hands me a rod with handle on the left, I can barely function with it.

[lmbfisherman]

I do the same exact thing, spinning left and bc right.  You're not alone. 

[BassinLou]

In total, I have 3 spinning and 2 casting setups, all of which I use regularly.  For some reason, I prefer to have my spinning rigs as left-hand retrieve and my casting as right-hand.  I've tried a few times to switch the spinning reels since they are switchable but it just doesn't feel right.  As a left handed person, I'm already a little strange but...

 

Nope... your not crazy. I am fellow lefty, and I fish the exact same way. Since I generally self taught myself to fish at a young age. I was not aware as a kid that a spinning reel handle could be interchanged. So, I learned how to fish a spinner fishing as a righty. When I learned how to fish a b/c in my 20's it was natural to throw left and reel right. And.... I don't consider myself too strange.....