Hey Migs,
Nay Nay I say. Don't discourage thinking
outside the box. I say challenge the
accepted practices and see if you can find
a better way. Nothing ventured, nothing
gained! Warm regards, Jim
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Hey Migs,
Nay Nay I say. Don't discourage thinking
outside the box. I say challenge the
accepted practices and see if you can find
a better way. Nothing ventured, nothing
gained! Warm regards, Jim
I have to agree with Jim Hatch.
If you find a way that works for
YOU, go for it.
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**MW**
Oh geeeze! Something more to worry about . Fly fishing is so complicated . I just went with the way the flyshop guy set up the reel for me . Now I have to figure out is it right or is it wrong . Your question forced me to get out of bed , travel 25 miles thru 3 feet of snow in my bare feet . Beset by hungry wolf packs and ravinous Grizzly bear I carried on to finally arrive in the front room of my house . I got my rod and reel , with frozen trembling hands finally managed to put the reel on the rod , low and behold it reels from the bottom . Success ...Ta dah ! The three day trip fraught with countless dangers on all sides was worth all that I had gone thru . I am flushed with success , chest out , shoulders back , what a feeling ! Finally With all the things I do wrong in this wonderful sport , I got one right .
Ps . The fish don't seem to care .
I'm confused (as usual). Doesn't that change of taking in line over the top mean that you are working against the drag and the fish is able to pull out line with no drag at all? Sorry if this is stupid; it may just be my poor spacial skills. 8T
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You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it's a real short camping season.
8T:
In essence what you would have to do to avoid the situation you describe is to set up the reel for normal right hand wind; and use it with the handle on the left with the line coming off the top and wind it in the opposite direction to what is done by most people; that being wind it clockwise.
The opposite would be true for those that choose to wind on the right side.
Confused yet?
I'd love to see me trying that with a fish on :0.
Women have TP coming off the top and men have it coming off the bottom? Are you sure?
Oh my gawd! I am gay and haven't known it for 53 years!
Dang,
I was when I was a kid.....my Dad was left handed, & I'm right handed. Made for confusing instruction when it came to fly casting. Well, when I have surgery on my right arm come January, I guess I will have to learn the left handed method for awhile !!!
I guess TP "top or bottom" preference may mirror other gender preferences too...?
Like MoTurke I have always wound with the left and favor my right hand..I say favor, Cause I use both equally well..and either feels natural,I forget about it till someone else might notice and ask me "were'nt you just casting with your other arm.?"...and I have to think about it a bit as to weather they are right or not...
and I've yet to ever see a reel spooled any way other than off the bottom....
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"I've often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before" A.K.Best
"Wish ya great fishing"
Bill
Bamboozle has the correct perception of the way the reel would be set up to take advantage of the drag and to keep the line closer to the handle (the objective) which DOES mean winding 'backwards'. I say try it! Re. "It should wind from the bottom." - who says? Give it a try, what have you got to lose? - about 1/2 hour of experimenting.