Post by: huntnphool on March 03, 2014, 11:10:08 PM
LifeWise: You Got This - Commercial 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRjUatI0HzQ#ws)
Post by: RadSav on March 03, 2014, 11:34:25 PM
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 :bash:
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 :chuckle:
Post by: huntnphool on March 03, 2014, 11:42:08 PM
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 ...
Post by: mallard79 on March 04, 2014, 08:10:44 AM
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Post by: huntnphool on March 04, 2014, 08:32:40 AM
I started taking a guy from work out fishing a couple years ago and he is a upside down and backwards reeler. :chuckle: I have hooked him up with steelhead and coho in the rivers and it is the funniest thing to watch him play the fish! :chuckle:He does know that the handle can be put on the other side right? :bash:
Post by: Gringo31 on March 04, 2014, 09:12:00 AM
I bought him a bait caster reel and forbid him from using his in my boat.
Post by: huntnphool on March 04, 2014, 09:13:43 AM
I had a buddy that did the very same....and I just couldn't take it any longer!!!:chuckle: you know there are guys on here reading this thread wondering what we are talking about! :chuckle:
I bought him a bait caster reel and forbid him from using his in my boat.
Post by: mallard79 on March 04, 2014, 10:16:32 AM
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Post by: RadSav on March 04, 2014, 06:44:27 PM
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 :bash:
That's why they make the 6501 :chuckle:
Post by: Encore 280 on March 04, 2014, 06:45:46 PM
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Post by: Antlershed on March 04, 2014, 08:53:22 PM
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 :bash:Hey, don't talk about Huntnphool like that...you'll hurt his feelings :chuckle:
I reel spinning reels with my left hand and baitcasters with my right. Works for me :tup:
Post by: Curly on March 04, 2014, 09:03:24 PM
My dad does reel backward with spinning reels. But he does have an excuse since he lost all the fingers on his right hand when he was a kid. I think he just got used to using right handed reels because that is all he had when he was growing up (I don't think they had reversible reels 50 years ago) and he just learned to use them upside down and backward. It does look funny.
I've asked him before about swapping the reel handle, but I think he is more comfortable reeling the way he has for so long.
Post by: lokidog on March 04, 2014, 09:27:01 PM
With my trout/bass rod, I can still cast a lot more accurately by casting with my right hand, feathering the spool with my left, and reeling with my right. I move the handle though so I still reel it in the proper direction with the spinning reel under the rod. :chuckle:
Post by: huntnphool on March 04, 2014, 10:39:46 PM
Apparently these dinguses lack the coordination needed switch from a left hand spinning reel to a right hand baitcaster :bash:Lack the coordination huh? (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/MGalleryItem.php?id=10994)
How about those dinguses that lack the intelligence to purchase a left handed bait caster, when they are readily available, and clearly the more comfortable, prefered way to reel!!! If reeling with your right hand was a more comfortable, prefered and coordinated way of reeling, then you would flip the handle on your spinning reel so you would never need to change your method to begin with, and reel with your right hand using both. I have not seen a spinning reel produced in years that you can't switch the handle from one side to the other in seconds. ;)
And I'm just funnin with the "intelligent" part.
Post by: RadSav on March 04, 2014, 11:28:10 PM
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.
I purchased my first one for fishing the Vedder. When you get into the fish up there one arm gets pretty tired. So I thought I would try the '01 and see if switching back and forth could help me fish harder and longer each day. After the first day I was hooked and I now use a left hand reel almost exclusively. I still use a 965 Int' for some bigger things, but lefties for me on most everything else. Since switching to the Curado 301 for steelhead I almost never use a spinner anymore.
If Shimano would make a LH Calcutta 700 I'd dance a jig while oversize fishing :chuckle:
Post by: huntnphool on March 04, 2014, 11:35:45 PM
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.
If Shimano would make a LH Calcutta 700 I'd dance a jig while oversize fishing :chuckle:
That would be awesome.
I spoke with a Shimano rep a couple years ago about left handed reels and he said there isn't enough of a demand. He said that as it is already, more than 90% of all the left handed reels they produce are sold in the NorthWest, West Coast, BC areas. :dunno:
Post by: bentley30-06 on March 04, 2014, 11:37:50 PM
Post by: RadSav on March 04, 2014, 11:58:39 PM
I spoke with a Shimano rep a couple years ago about left handed reels and he said there isn't enough of a demand. He said that as it is already, more than 90% of all the left handed reels they produce are sold in the NorthWest, West Coast, BC areas. :dunno:
I've had the same conversation and got the same answer many times back when I was working in the fishing industry. Guess bass fishing and Blue water is where all the money is. I never could get a straight answer from Berkley on what the sales totals and ratios were on the Ambassador 6500/6501. I bet those numbers aren't too shabby!
Penn asked my buddy Steve Lynch (Pro-Cure) to help them design an oversize sturgeon specific reel for the Columbia. They poo poo'd the LH 975 International pretty quick. :tung:
Post by: RadSav on March 05, 2014, 12:33:33 AM
When I left the industry it appeared as though Okuma was going to offer something. Unless I missed it, doesn't look like that ever happened. I sure had high hopes for Okuma when they first hit the scene. Too bad that didn't go the direction it looked like it was going to.
Post by: huntnphool on March 05, 2014, 06:53:54 AM
If I wouldn't have to deal with the same FET tax garbage with fishing gear as I do with archery gear I'd tool up and start making premium round body LH reels myself. I bet a guy could do very well making premium NW specific salmon, steelhead and sturgeon reels. Not Shimano money, but who needs those headaches?No kidding, that would have been nice.
When I left the industry it appeared as though Okuma was going to offer something. Unless I missed it, doesn't look like that ever happened. I sure had high hopes for Okuma when they first hit the scene. Too bad that didn't go the direction it looked like it was going to.
Post by: Antlershed on March 05, 2014, 06:59:53 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on March 05, 2014, 07:03:24 AM
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 :bash:Hey, don't talk about Huntnphool like that...you'll hurt his feelings :chuckle:
I reel spinning reels with my left hand and baitcasters with my right. Works for me :tup:
:yeah: I think all great fisherman do this the same way. :tup:
Post by: Bullkllr on March 05, 2014, 07:10:29 AM
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 :bash:Hey, don't talk about Huntnphool like that...you'll hurt his feelings :chuckle:
I reel spinning reels with my left hand and baitcasters with my right. Works for me :tup:
:yeah: I think all great fisherman do this the same way. :tup:
:tup: :yeah: I have given the lefties a try a few times- can't get used to them. Just feels weird after too many years of right-hand only. But any good fisherman should be able to cast a bait-caster with either hand anyway, right...
Post by: RadSav on March 05, 2014, 07:41:07 AM
Okuma makes some lefties, but you better buy them in bulk cause you're going to need spares. :chuckle:
Sure not how they built them when they first hit the market. The samples they gave us before they hit the US market were very nice. Not sure what happened after that >:( I did miss that they were making the Cedros in LH - Thanks.
It's funny if you go to their website now. On the Cedros LH picture they have the Red Cross logo. If a guy didn't know those are Red Cross donation reels he's be thinking, How bad do things hurt when they blow up!?!?! :chuckle:
Post by: 87Ford on March 05, 2014, 01:59:54 PM