Fellow Anglers Do what feels the best for you. Reel left, reel right, doesn't make any difference. If you have to think about how to reel when you have a fish on you are missing the reasons for angling. Just go and enjoy the great outdoors; the land, trees, air , sky, water and the fish. Then share your experiences with your angling fellowship. Some baseball players bat left some bat right; if you are hitting the ball the only good advise you get is what time the game starts. The trouble with fly anglers is they try to make everything to damned complicated. Regards Mel Hocken ----- Original Message ----- From: J Balmer To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: Reeling left-handed
Been a while since I was called a “youngster”J From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Eckert Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: AW: [VFB] Re: Reeling left-handed I do not think we should make a rule who has to reel left or right – we older (experienced?) reel with our dominant hand and the youngsters do it (logical) the logic way … Thomas alaska info Thomas R. Eckert [email protected] Sonnhaldenstrasse 14 CH 8032 Zürich 7 ZH Switzerland Tel.: +41442628367 Mobil: +41796795463 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von George E Vincent Gesendet: Freitag, 20. November 2009 18:22 An: [email protected] Betreff: [VFB] Re: Reeling left-handed Jimmy, I know we have had this discussion on this list before. I do it the same as you, that is cast with my right arm and switch to my left when I catch a fish to reel it in. This is the way that I was taught and the way that fly rods and reels were set up to be used by right-handed people at least back in the 50s when I learned to fly fish. BTW this is also the way that Lefty Kreh says that it should be done, because you are using your dominant hand to do the work. I don't know when they started teaching right-handed people to cast with the right and reel with the left, but as far as I am concerned they are wrong. George Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy D. Moore Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:09 To: Virtual Fly Box; Fly Fishing World; Hill Coountry Fly Fishers Subject: [VFB] Reeling left-handed I'm right-handed and I've always reeled right handed after changing the rod from right hand to left I know that in the time it takes to change the rod from right hand to left hand has cost me a fish or two, but try as I may, I just can't get the hang of reeling left-handed. I've had this trouble with my bait casting reel but it doesn't seem to affect how quick I strike at a bass. I've sat at my tying bench with a reel attached to a reel seat held the handle in my right hand and reeled left-handed until I'm blue in the face. After about 5 minutes, reeling left-handed seems natural, BUT . . . . when I get on the stream and a fish takes, I fall back into the switching rod from right to left hand and then reeling with my right hand. I'll try doubly hard to reel left-handed on the next fish, but even if I don't make the switch, my reeling is an uncoordinated jerky motion. Maybe I've just got a mental block. Any suggestions will be appreciated. JIMMY D <BR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
