Left handed reel for flip/pitch?

[bugman]

Do you use a left handed reel for flipping & pitching and a right handed reel for other tech's? I have a RH shimano castic with a flipping switch and was thinking about using a LH curado. I tend to bump the flip switch when I plam the reel.

[Triton21]

I switched to left reels in the early '90s when I was tournament fishing.  I use lefts for all my techniques.  I will get several more casts in a day than a 'switch hitter'.

Kelley

[J Francho]

Do you use a left handed reel for flipping & pitching and a right handed reel for other tech's?

Yes, both.  If you pitch with your right and use a lefty reel, then you're ready to set the hook as soon as the bait hits the water.  For moving baits, I prefer a righty, since my left (palming) hand doesn't leave the reel during the cast.  No hand switching involved.  If I do move my left hand, for a two-handed-swimbait-chucker-cast, its back on the reel before the bait hits the water.

[senile1]

Do you use a left handed reel for flipping & pitching and a right handed reel for other tech's?

Yes, both. If you pitch with your right and use a lefty reel, then you're ready to set the hook as soon as the bait hits the water. For moving baits, I prefer a righty, since my left (palming) hand doesn't leave the reel during the cast. No hand switching involved. If I do move my left hand, for a two-handed-swimbait-chucker-cast, its back on the reel before the bait hits the water.

Old habits die hard when you don't make an effort to change them.  I pitch and flip with my right hand and reel with the same hand using baitcasters, but I cast with the right and reel with my left hand on spinning reels.  Being the logical person that I am it really doesn't make sense.    I just do it because I've always done it this way.  I'm deciding now that the next baitcaster I buy for pitching/flipping will be a lefty.  I need to break this habit.  Like John, I usually cast with two hands for other techniques so it doesn't come into play there.

[FishinTN]

I use a lefty for pitch/flip. also for topwater and jerkbaits.

[ww2farmer]

I use LH reels for everything.

[Go Time]

I use LH reels for everything.

X2

I got my first baitcaster when I was 10 and my dad never really used one, neither of us knew you were "supposed" to switch hands 

[Senkoman12]

i use only use leftys and yes i do pitch with them

[Crankenstein_MI]

I use lefties for everything. Never understood why I would use a reel that I would have to switch hands every cast, so I started with lefties.

[Locked]

I use LH reels for everything.

x 3

I'm so used to reeling lefty it feels weird to reel with my right... and I'm right handed.

[BassThumb]

I'm right handed, and I use lefty reels for flipping and pitching. I very much prefer it and I won't be going back. No more missed strikes while switching hands.   

Pick up a lefty reel and try it, for instance, a lefty Curado for $150 online. Take good care to keep it free of boat rash, and use it for a season and figure out what works for you. Next winter, sell it on the flea market here for $125 shipped if you don't like it.

[South FLA]

I will start using a lefty for my pitching/flipping outfit, since I just picked up a new lefty Daiwa Advantage, going to mount it on a Dobyns Champion.  All other techniques I used traditional righty baitcaster and righty spinning.

[Boss Hogg]

For me its lefty all day