I might have found a way to avoid buying a lefty punch-reel. Pitching lefty.

[Darth-Baiter]

I was in my front yard practicing pitching a heavier bait, like for punching weed mats. I only have a righty reel for the task. Switching hands takes up precious moments.  It was going to be the one lefty reel I bought (soon). 
 

then I tried it.  I can pitch and cast fairly well with my left hand.  I pitch equally well. I tried a cast sidearm and I flung it way out there. Accuracy went into the toilet. Haha. My timing t the release is okay, not great.  Pitching is fine.  Almost safer since my right hand can handle the hooked bait better. Weird.   
 

I can use chopsticks with either hand as well. 

[QED]

I am right hand dominant but for casting I use the left with [right-handed] bait casting reels and the right with spinning reels.  It's been working very well for me for years.  Practice and it'll become second nature.

[throttleplate]

on my spinning gear i switch the handle over to the other side every hour to give my shoulders, arms..... an equal workout so i had to learn how to reel with the right hand and learn how to walk lures and cast and am now very good using both.

[MN Fisher]

  On 6/13/2021 at 3:47 AM, throttleplate said:

on my spinning gear i switch the handle over to the other side every hour to give my shoulders, arms..... an equal workout so i had to learn how to reel with the right hand and learn how to walk lures and cast and am now very good using both.

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I switched all my spinners to right-hand crank - slight bursitis in my right shoulder makes it more difficult to cast with my right...so cast with left, work the reel with right.

[dodgeguy]

I'm a righty. For years I switched hands. Bought a lefty reel by accident. Someone suggested I pitch with it. I tried it and love it. Now all soft plastics and jigs are fished left hand retrieve and all moving hardbait are fished righty. Definately less fatigue.

[Bankc]

My left hand is so uncoordinated, I'd swear it belongs to someone else.  I certainly can't cast with it.  But I do pitch left handed on right handed reels.  When I first started to learn how to pitch, I made the concious decision to do it left handed, and now that's the hand I pitch best with.  

[Luke Barnes]

I'm right handed and use right hand cranks on everything but, I pitch better with my left hand and arm, so it works out for me. I still cast with my right hand and then switch the rod and reel to my left to reel with the right. Ive tried left side crank and I like the feel of the rod in my left hand. I feel i work it better and can detect bites better. I attribute this to being a guitar player and needing my left to be dexterous as well and my left feels comfortable for certain things. I am in no way ambidextrous but fishing and guitar playing my left is better for certain things. 

[Mbirdsley]

I have been working on punching/pitching left handed also.  I’m trying to get my self to cast left handed so I don’t have to change hands with the rod. 

[Bankc]

  On 6/13/2021 at 4:01 PM, Luke Barnes said:

I'm right handed and use right hand cranks on everything but, I pitch better with my left hand and arm, so it works out for me. I still cast with my right hand and then switch the rod and reel to my left to reel with the right. Ive tried left side crank and I like the feel of the rod in my left hand. I feel i work it better and can detect bites better. I attribute this to being a guitar player and needing my left to be dexterous as well and my left feels comfortable for certain things. I am in no way ambidextrous but fishing and guitar playing my left is better for certain things. 

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I remember when I first started playing guitar.  I originally learned on a left handed guitar because, being right handed, it made more sense to me, since I'd be using my right hand for all of those difficult chord positions.  A few months later, I learned that it was the picking hand that actually had to have more coordination, so I switched to right handed.  My father, who is left handed, plays right handed guitar, mostly because back in his day finding left handed guitars was almost impossible.  

 

With enough practice, you can learn to do pretty much anything with your off hand, and get quite good at it.  Like all of those left handed kids who were forced to write with their right hand back in the day.  They do everything but write left handed, but they can't write worth a darn with their left hand.