I found one place where a gentleman said that the 1492 1/2 is not reversible and then the next post stated the following and that is the best answer I can come up with at this time, but, there are a lot of fly fishermen using these and I feel sure someone with more knowledge will jump in here, I hope.


You can push the pin out that prevents pawl rotating and rotate the pawl. This will set the reel up for LHW. You can't use the line guard unless you drill holes and move it, but you can get the LHW bias on the drag tension.