Backward Ars Reelers

[huntnphool]

You guys just crack me up. I was just watching the Blacklist and saw this commercial, which shows some clown pretending to reel in a fish with a fly rod/reel combo, reminded me of antlershed..........lmao.

LifeWise: You Got This - Commercial 3

[RadSav]

I've got a friend I grew up with in Oregon who loves to fish.  Now 50 years old he still uses a spinning reel upside down and cranks backwards.

I took this same guy Dolly fishing back when we were in our mid thirties.  I caught five or six nice dollies and he caught a couple trout and about a dozen whitefish.  To this day he likes to remind me of that day when he out fished me

Yeah, he might be a moron, but at least he was smart enough not to vote Obama.  So I guess I can keep him as a friend a little longer

[huntnphool]

Yeah, he might be a moron, but at least he was smart enough not to vote Obama. 

Obviously not since he was out fishing right? I mean, with Obama you can give a man a fish and feed him for the day, rather than teaching him to fish and ...

[mallard79]

I started taking a guy from work out fishing a couple years ago and he is a upside down and backwards reeler.  I have hooked him up with steelhead and coho in the rivers and it is the funniest thing to watch him play the fish! 

[Mfowl]

I just shake my head when I see this... Nice Wooldridge by the way!

[huntnphool]

I started taking a guy from work out fishing a couple years ago and he is a upside down and backwards reeler.  I have hooked him up with steelhead and coho in the rivers and it is the funniest thing to watch him play the fish! 

He does know that the handle can be put on the other side right?

[Gringo31]

I had a buddy that did the very same....and I just couldn't take it any longer!!!

I bought him a bait caster reel and forbid him from using his in my boat.

[huntnphool]

I had a buddy that did the very same....and I just couldn't take it any longer!!!

I bought him a bait caster reel and forbid him from using his in my boat.

you know there are guys on here reading this thread wondering what we are talking about!

[mallard79]

I offer to switch the reel handle to the other side every time I take him out. He doesn't like it that way      I keep tginking about bringing him a Minnie Mouse rod instead.   

[lewy]

I remember a Shawn Alexander end zone dance were he is pretending to reel and is doing it backwards, what a goon...

[Bullkllr]

Then there's the type that pretend baitcasters were not made to forever be reeled on the right side. Apparently these dinguses lack the coordination needed switch from a left hand spinning reel to a right hand baitcaster 

[RadSav]

Then there's the type that pretend baitcasters were not made to forever be reeled on the right side. Apparently these dinguses lack the coordination needed switch from a left hand spinning reel to a right hand baitcaster 

That's why they make the 6501

[Encore 280]

I knew a local back in the middle 70's that fished Point No Point all the time. He was left handed I guess and used a Winona reel and reeled backwards left handed. I had and still have a Winona and am also south paw but I use mine right handed. Goofie lookin as hell to watch 'im reel and fight a salmon reelin back asswards. I guess if you're used to it then no big deal.

[metlhead]

Radsav, you mentioned the 6501. For so many years I fished with right handle reels, being right handed. It is what dad put in my hands and said "fish".  I got tired of doing the back and forth, bought a 6501 leftie, still cast right handed and cannot understand why more folks dont do it. Seems logical to me, as right sided spinning reels have left side handle.

[Antlershed]

Then there's the type that pretend baitcasters were not made to forever be reeled on the right side. Apparently these dinguses lack the coordination needed switch from a left hand spinning reel to a right hand baitcaster 

Hey, don't talk about Huntnphool like that...you'll hurt his feelings 

I reel spinning reels with my left hand and baitcasters with my right. Works for me