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How should a person hold a spinning reel?  Do most people hold it with the stem between your middle finger & ring finger or between your ring finger & pinkie?

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Does not really matter. What ever feels most comfortable and balanced to you.

It can also depend upon what weight rod you are using.

Cliff

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1 hour ago, mrpike1973 said:

How should a person hold a spinning reel?  Do most people hold it with the stem between your middle finger & ring finger or between your ring finger & pinkie?

More like which way do you crank your spinning reel? I'm right handed so I crank on the right side. A lot of people I know like one of my buddies who is also right handed has all his spinning reels setup for left hand cranking. It suks when I go to his cabin and use one of his rods! I just use it reel up!  :P

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2 hours ago, leech~~ said:

More like which way do you crank your spinning reel? I'm right handed so I crank on the right side. A lot of people I know like one of my buddies who is also right handed has all his spinning reels setup for left hand cranking. It suks when I go to his cabin and use one of his rods! I just use it reel up!  :P

I do the same thing it sucks when I am watching some ones ice rods and go to set the hook and oop there is no handle on that side. I thought that is how right handed fished but I guess most of them use the left and to reel. Then I figured out I got the reeling on the right side from my dad because he is left handed and when I was little I would use his rods.

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Hold it which is most comfortable for you..........,but I usually hold between my middle fingers.

As far as what handle side, and a interesting topic. If you thing about, right handed people should be reeling on left. You use your dominate arm for casting and setting the hook, so reeling on your left eliminates the need to then switch your hands to then reel. Being right handed, I reel with my left with everything, including bait casting gear.

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11 hours ago, Cliff Wagenbach said:

Does not really matter. What ever feels most comfortable and balanced to you.

It can also depend upon what weight rod you are using.

Cliff

I'm back to Cliff's answer on this deal. Hold and crank which ever feels best for you. Anyone else drive golf balls right handed but shoot hockey left handed?  Their ya go, me too!  Have fun pulling in fish! :)

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41 minutes ago, Tom Sawyer said:

Hold it which is most comfortable for you..........,but I usually hold between my middle fingers.

As far as what handle side, and a interesting topic. If you thing about, right handed people should be reeling on left. You use your dominate arm for the hook set, so reeling on your left eliminates the need to then switch your hands to then reel. Being right handed, I reel with my left with everything, including bait casting gear.

I agree.

I also reel both types of rods with my left hand.

Eliminates having to switch hands to reel or cast!

Cliff

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39 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

I'm back to Cliff's answer on this deal. Hold and crank which ever feels best for you. Anyone else drive golf balls right handed but shoot hockey left handed?  Their ya go, me too!  Have fun pulling in fish! :)

Honestly, I actually am left handed in hockey and right handed in golf. That is what is most comfortable for me............

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Very interesting guys. I'm ambidextrous I cast right handed but reel left handed. I cannot and repeat cannot reel right handed on a bait caster. I look like I'm flagging down a plane. My sweetie said she did not want to be in the same boat as hers. Hee Hee. Anyway main reason I asked this question I see most of the tv shows with most of them doing the pinkie behind the stem. I find so many of my rods are so unbalanced by moving my hand this way they feel lighter and when I'm out I cast a lot. Thanks for the comments.

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8 hours ago, Tom Sawyer said:

Hold it which is most comfortable for you..........,but I usually hold between my middle fingers.

As far as what handle side, and a interesting topic. If you thing about, right handed people should be reeling on left. You use your dominate arm for casting and setting the hook, so reeling on your left eliminates the need to then switch your hands to then reel. Being right handed, I reel with my left with everything, including bait casting gear.

Don't reel with your left hand, that is backwards lol!!! 

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On top of the rod and reel backwards :D

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right handed, stem in the middle of 4 fingers, reel with my LEFT hand  Jim Uran ! ! !   lol 

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19 hours ago, leech~~ said:

I'm back to Cliff's answer on this deal. Hold and crank which ever feels best for you. Anyone else drive golf balls right handed but shoot hockey left handed?  Their ya go, me too!  Have fun pulling in fish! :)

Play hockey left handed, reel with my right hand, shoot bow right handed, baseball right handed, shoot bow and guns right handed. (Even though I should shoot left as I am left eye dominate.)

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On Wednesday, March 02, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Tom Sawyer said:

Hold it which is most comfortable for you..........,but I usually hold between my middle fingers.

As far as what handle side, and a interesting topic. If you thing about, right handed people should be reeling on left. You use your dominate arm for casting and setting the hook, so reeling on your left eliminates the need to then switch your hands to then reel. Being right handed, I reel with my left with everything, including bait casting gear.

Completely agree with the crank on the left, for right handed.  I shake my head whenever I see right handed people with the crank on the right.  I watched my dad for years miss fish after fish while jigging because he holds the rod in his right hand until he feels a strike, then has to switch the rod to his left hand to reel.  I've pointed it out a few times why he is missing the fish but at 75 he won't change.

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Any way comfortable to you. I will say this if you hold it upside down and reel backwards you will defianately be picked out as a rookie real quick :D

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11 hours ago, Kyhl said:

Completely agree with the crank on the left, for right handed.  I shake my head whenever I see right handed people with the crank on the right.  I watched my dad for years miss fish after fish while jigging because he holds the rod in his right hand until he feels a strike, then has to switch the rod to his left hand to reel.  I've pointed it out a few times why he is missing the fish but at 75 he won't change.

I am right handed and reel with my right and do just fine although I don't switch hands to reel I jig with my left.  I figured out that I do that because I would always use my dads poles when I was a kid and he is left handed.

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On 3/2/2016 at 9:15 PM, leech~~ said:

More like which way do you crank your spinning reel? I'm right handed so I crank on the right side. A lot of people I know like one of my buddies who is also right handed has all his spinning reels setup for left hand cranking. It suks when I go to his cabin and use one of his rods! I just use it reel up!  :P

This is one thing about me that confuses me. I am right-handed in everything I do EXCEPT using a spinning reel. For some reason, it just doesn't feel right to use a spinning reel left-handed. Spin-cast, bait-cast, or fly reels I use right-handed. I think it has to do with casting. Since I am right-handed I am a total klutz if I try to cast with my left hand. Casting the spinning reel right-handed means that I am positioned to use the crank whenever I want without switching hands.  

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I am right handed. I jig/cast with my left hand so I can reel with my right hand, I never could get comfortable reeling with my left hand. If people in my boat want to reel with left hand it only take a minute to switch the handle although they may loose parts if doing it over the side of the boat.

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Try to find the balance point of the rod by balancing it on your finger. 

You'll see that when you're fishing the rod, it feels most balanced when the index finger is close to that balance point. Then hold the rod how ever you need to hold it so the index finger is nearest to that point, whether it be with the stem between middle-ring or ring-pinkie fingers. That's how I do it. Most often, it's with the stem between the middle and ring fingers. 

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Golf right, hockey left.  Baitcaster - hold the rod in my right hand and reel handle on the right side ( I know it is a lot of switching and have lost fish doing it but I am too stubborn to change).  Spinning reel - hold the rod in my right hand, reel handle on left.

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Hockey:  Left handed

Batting:  right handed

Golf: right handed

Reeling-spinning:  left handed

Reeling - bait caster: right handed

Bow: Right handed

Gun: right handed (but left eye dominate)

Writing: right handed

Go figure

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I'm right handed and throw with my right holding the reel between my middle & ring finger then I crank with my left.  For me the balance is better holding it between those two fingers vs the ring & pinkie finger.

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I think I am the odd one here I am right-handed reel left handed but I hold spinning reels with just my pointer finger in front of the peg. I also do this with my bait casters. I bat right, golf right hockey left, and shoot right and to really shake things up I bowl left and right-handed with not that much of a difference. Also write and eat both hands and of course drink!

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