Tenkara Guides is way ahead of the curve.
They are a great resource for adaptive gear.
Tenkara Guides is way ahead of the curve.
They are a great resource for adaptive gear.
6 years ago I ended up with a frozen right shoulder that won't allow me to lift my right arm much of anything and has defied fixing. I think it was about 2009, that I heard about tenkara and started looking into it. I can still cast a tenkara rod with my right arm. But I usually switch to my left hand to use a net with my right.
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LynnMCF, have you tried two handed casting? Use your right arm mostly as a fulcrum, pulling back with the left arm on the rod butt to make the cast. The guys I took a two handed casting class from said a number of their students took up two handed casting because of shoulder problems. He loved the Daiwa Kiyose 43M as a light two handed rod. I told him it was a one handed rod. He smiled and said "try it." He was right.
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Good on ANY of you trying to help out a fellow fisher.
Jim
Born to fish - forced to work.
Chris, I have a 43M-F and I have used it two-handed in the way you describe; but I can usually manage it one-handed if my line doesn't exceed the rod length. I've found most rods are light enough that if I keep my right elbow tucked into my side that I generally have no problem. Some weeks though the shoulder is bothering me so much that no other technique will help because of nerve pain running down the arm. Those are good times to fall back to another past-time - genealogy!
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