Tom,
If this is for me, The answer is no on a fly rod but some big fish on salt water boat rods. Not in the sail fish category but some large sharks and big blues. Yes these were on a reel and cranking like mad.LOL
Tony
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Thomas Eckert <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Thomas Eckert <[email protected]>
Subject: AW: [VFB] Re: Left hand reel
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:31 PM
Did you ever fight a „real“
fish with your left hand as right hander or vice versa ? – I mean really
big fish.
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Don,
Very well said, it is good to do it both ways. Like I said, when I started
out most fish were in the 6 to 10 " catagorey, really no need to reel
till you were ready to go home.LOL
Tony
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, DonO <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: DonO <[email protected]>
Subject: [VFB] Re: Left hand reel
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 9:46 AM
I, like many my age, grew up as a kid starting off with a bait-caster
(if you don't include the cane-pole). For a right-hander, that meant
casting with the right and reeling with the right. Then push-button spinning reels
came out (Sears). They could be set up either right or left
hand. I started with right hand retrieve but ended up swapping to left
hand retrieve to match the next invention.
The next phase was the under-hung open-face spinning reel
(Mitchell 300), right hand on rod, left hand reel. The manual flipping
of the bail and multitudes of casts made it more simple if the rod wasn't
swapped every cast. I used to laugh at all the people who were so
hard-wired that they flipped the open-face reel over to the top position and
reeled in backwards. Anyone remember that?
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