JimmyD, Oh yeah, get us all going and then post that you like it the old way anyway, and can't change. You must be a Texan with Cajun roots!
I guess since you been reeling for 300 years that way, it is sorta' ingrained. What you COULD do is get an electric fly reel, battery powered (just stack them in the grip). A variable frequency drive, programmable chip, difital readout, gps, digital scale, lazer tape-measure, voice recorder so you can fib, catch-camera... Buggs ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy D. Moore To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:13 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: Reeling left-handed Thanks DonO. I spin-fished in my early chunking & winding days, but never felt that I had control of a big fish, so I wound up doing all my years of bass fishing right - handed and reeling right-handed. Yes, when I cast, I strip line and haul with my left hand. I seem to have lots more control this way. Thanks for everone's help. I'm convinced that I don't need to worry about it and since I'm used to it, I'll dance with who brung me. JIMMY D Don Ordes wrote: Jimmy, Do you spin-fish? Normal for righties is to cast right and reel left. Even with me, the old bait-casters were a swap-over proposition- cast right-reel right. Then I made the swap to spin-casting, and it became natural. Flyfishing is the same as spin-casting- cast right, reel left. Jerry Goldsmith casts right & reels right, so that should tell you how strange that practice is. You need to practice reeling in under tension and without tension. Practice on a spin-caster, too. Also, remember this too. You 'play' a fish with the rod, not the reel. The reel's job is to store line and to feed it out. Feeding it out required some resistance to prevent backlash, or an actual HD Drag to hold a big fish from running off, and thus not having to use your hand to palm the spool. Small fish can be played with loose line, not even using the reel. So how do you do using your left hand to handle slack line, also? Also, when you cast, you are hauling with your left hand, or double-hauling. So the left hand and arm are busy while the right has the job of casting and not tiring out. Take it from me as I invented casting in the first place. DonO --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
