re: Cast Right/Reel Right or Cast Right/Reel Left?

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I don’t use spincast but why do majority of people use opposite hand to reel? I see it all the time... they’ll reel with right hand with a baitcaster and left with a spinner.

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Left handed reels (crank on the left) for bait casters and spincasters used to be harder to come by and are still not always readily available. That is particularly true with your less expensive models which are all some can afford.

People learned the cast and switch method when I was young. Spinning reels generally came with the crank set up for the left side and it is easy to pick up so many just went with how it was set up. It’s definitely more efficient to cast right reel left.

I cast right reel left but had to relearn because I started off with the switch. I tried to learn to cast with my left but, alas, I could not do it nearly as well.