On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:56:48 GMT, "RalphH" wrote:


"Guy" guytee2 at comcast dot net wrote in message
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I am a "righty" (politics aside) and learned to reel right handed. After
abuse from some of my leftist fish partners that it was a waste of time to
cast right and exchange the rod to my left hand to reel right was the
"correct" method, I attempted the change. As much as I tried to reel left,
it felt awkward so I changed all my reels back to right hand reel. Just
wanted to know if I was in the minority.

Guy

Much the same as you the 1st reels I had were right hand retrieve so that's
what I am used to and can't change. English reels from 20 years or more ago
(I am thinking Hardy) were always right hand retrieve. I don't know why but
the best suggestion I heard was that for a right handed person using a
single action (1:1 retrieve ratio) it made sense to retrieve with the
dominate hand.

I have a collection of Hardy reels, mostly from the '60s and '70s, a few from
the '80s, and all of them came set for right hand retrieve. Each was switched
over to left hand retrieve easily - usually by just flipping the drag dogs"...

/daytripper