LH or RH Baitcaster?

[MassYak85]

I'm right handed and reel spinning and casting with my right hand. It's purely personal preference so do whatever feels natural to you, if you can try out one of each. I always chuckle to myself when I hear the "use your stronger arm to hold/work the rod". I don't know about you, but one of my arms isn't strong and the other a twig. The thing that makes an arm or hand "dominant" is not strength, but fine motor skills. 

[Brett's_daddy]

4 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

The thing that makes an arm or hand "dominant" is not strength, but fine motor skills.

Well, that would definitely be my right hand...I can't do much fine motor skills with my left arm/hand...writing is terrible, throwing is awful. Now obviously it isn't completely useless and I can lift, grab things etc. but ask me to hammer a nail with my left and I would spend most of the time in the ER with a broken right thumb...lol.

[MassYak85]

11 minutes ago, Brett's_daddy said:

Well, that would definitely be my right hand...I can't do much fine motor skills with my left arm/hand...writing is terrible, throwing is awful. Now obviously it isn't completely useless and I can lift, grab things etc. but ask me to hammer a nail with my left and I would spend most of the time in the ER with a broken right thumb...lol.

Haha same with me. Now you can argue working the rod is fine motor skills as well so again it's all down to preference. Me personally I can twitch and work a rod with both hands it doesn't matter to me, but the small wrist circles you do to reel, I can't for the life of me do them with my left hand, so I use righty reels. 

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

You pretty much answered your own question. The LH feels better and more natural ho for it. 

[CTBassin860]

Its a comfort thing man.Im a righty and reel LH with spinning but prefer RH casters.

[CTBassin860]

2 hours ago, Raul said:

Yada-yada-yada

 

1.- you can cast with both hands

2.- you can get used to right reel or right

 

why do I choose RH ?

 

1.- back the old days there were only RH reels BC and spincast, I learned to fish that way

2.- it ain't broke don't fix it

3.- you ain't gonna beat me with all that logic I can cast, flip, pitch, skip faster and more accurately than you for a good reason, unless you are my age or older I've been doing it for a lot more time than you.

 

more questions ?

 

Have you ever seen him cast,flip,pitch or skip?? How do you know this oracle??What does how long you've been doing it,translate to being better at anything?? For instance Brett Favre played football longer than Tom Brady....We all know how this example plays out.