Roughly 12-15% of individuals are left handed. I am one of those, and can do things with both hands, but my dominant hand is left for casting. Thank you for the video.
This is absolutely working for me; I recall when they told me I had a stroke, the first thing that I thought of was am I going to still be able to do any angling since my right hand was useless (I got some use back with physical therapy). Anyway, for me, I took out a 6.5' 4# rod and worked that for a bit, then I switched to an 8' 4# setup. I am casting better with the left than the right hand now. If it would just stop raining for a bit I will get in more practise.
It definitely pays off to be able to cast with both arms/shoulders, both with single hand rods and double handers as well. Not only because of injuries or complicated wind conditions, but also because of better fly presentation on particular river settings. And it is much easier to self-teach it than everyone (including myself) would think it is!
I had cancer in the right wrist resulting in a major operation which removed my radius. I had to learn to cast and fish left handed for two years until the strength in my right wrist improved enough to cast right handed again. It wasn’t pretty and was very frustrating to start with, but it was learn to do it or give up fishing. That was twenty years ago now, and I would need to practice with the left again to have a remote resemblance to casting crack handed once more.
@@dariomanfroi9447 never really felt naturally proficient with the left hand and reverted back to right hand when i regained my strength back in my right arm. I can still cast left handed (very badly) if i have to, but prefer right handed across the body and over my left shoulder
There was one thing (the flip side, to the story about casting in the wind in broad open spaces on the east saltwater coastline using fly rods). A thing that came to my attention. Not too long ago.
Somebody I know, who gives classes in Spey casting. On quite wide, large rivers. In north America. Ended up fly fishing. In a trout stream. Using a single handed rod. And for whatever reason. On that day. Could not 'put it together'. No cast seemed to be working.
It's a while now. Too long. Since I had fished on water. In the past couple of years almost. And I got to test out. Some new streamer flies. Only today. I didn't just 'test' the streamer flies. I went through the process. Very systematically. Where I lined up around half a dozen fly rods. Using around a full dozen. Different line densities and type (the one thing, I should have done and a fellow angler reminded me I missed). Was to test using 'five' foot length sinking tip attachments. From Airflo. I use the full range of the ten foot length variety (which if you imagine, on a narrow river channel, a ten foot length fast sinking Airflo leader, acts a little bit like a full sinking line effectively).
Now in terms of channel width. I think the size of river. That I am talking about here (and this is a salmon river that varies enormously in channel width from it's top to it's bottom at the sea). Because it has so many large tributary rivers that join, and become part of it. So you really do end needing. To vary your fly fishing tackle quite a lot. Ideally speaking. Even over short distances along the river. Of ten to twenty miles. One 'set up' that worked upstream. Does not work at all well. Further down. The part of the river I was doing fly design 'swim tests' in. Would have been thirty to forty feet across. In most places. Which is nothing. In terms of casting distance. But it's a fast moving river too. A lot of current. So you do end up working 'down stream' (the 'flies' I had designed and was testing, were one's that would enable me to cast upstream too, using streamers).
I was testing upstream casts. Which are rather different in a lot of ways. To downstream. Or cross stream (of course, an advantage of streamer fly fishing, is the ability to work with short casting directly across, using say a 'twenty five' foot cast). Where you can search and probe along bank edges. In the way that conventional gear bass anglers do a lot. What I've realized though. Even though I had a load of different line systems, rods and around 'six' distinct types of streamer. And size of streamer (with some streamers, such as rabbit it's a weight thing of casting a dead weight). With other streamers such as deer hair. It's an air resistance thing. If the deer hair fly is large. Using fly rods and lines. That ranged for today's testing. Between four weight and up to seven weight. Although, in the end. I ran out of time. Before I could break out the seven weight stuff.
To cut a long story short though. I learned a lot from swim testing the new flies. Much of which was un-expected (flies that 'swam' upside down, swam side-ways, floated when they should have sunk, and tangled up in ways that were un-anticipated). The long and the short of it was. That old chestnut. The fly rod's 'personality'. A four weight, eight foot slow action fly rod. Worked perfect at short distance. Using a six weight fast sinking line. On the short casts. A nine foot, five weight fast action fly rod. Only came into it's element. When it was paired to a seven weight floating line. And a brand new 'six' weight. Very parabollic action rod I acquired two weeks ago. I had only just taken out of it's tube. For the first. Was lethal when combined with a six weight integrated sinking tip line (sinking part was a whole ten foot, when I measured it). The combination was ideal. And the funny thing is. That six weight sinking tip fly line. Was purchased in 2005. And never used (because I didn't have a fly rod ever that seemed to suit it).
Hi, I have a theory about casting with the opposite hand. Almost every person has a dominant hand but...also a dominant eye. Who plays archery know what does mean. On my point of view if a person cast with the opposite hand and his dominant eye is also opposite he or she has an advantage because it's important to align the dominant eye with the rod line. Moreover he or she has more finesse in the line hand. Perhaps someone is agree with me?😊
I'm also a photographer and it's very common for people to have a dominant eye in the way they use their cameras. I've found that I really don't have much of a dominant eye when using a camera. If I'm using a rangefinder style, I use my right eye, but if I'm using an SLR style, I use my left. When casting on the left side, I switch my stance, so my head position changes and also the eye used to aim the cast. Good point. I had thought about this issue with photography, but not with casting. Thinking about it, I realize that I use either eye for aiming the cast.
Roughly 12-15% of individuals are left handed. I am one of those, and can do things with both hands, but my dominant hand is left for casting. Thank you for the video.
This is absolutely working for me; I recall when they told me I had a stroke, the first thing that I thought of was am I going to still be able to do any angling since my right hand was useless (I got some use back with physical therapy). Anyway, for me, I took out a 6.5' 4# rod and worked that for a bit, then I switched to an 8' 4# setup. I am casting better with the left than the right hand now. If it would just stop raining for a bit I will get in more practise.
That's really great to hear. :)
It definitely pays off to be able to cast with both arms/shoulders, both with single hand rods and double handers as well. Not only because of injuries or complicated wind conditions, but also because of better fly presentation on particular river settings. And it is much easier to self-teach it than everyone (including myself) would think it is!
Thanks for this video ... this is what I needed.
I had cancer in the right wrist resulting in a major operation which removed my radius. I had to learn to cast and fish left handed for two years until the strength in my right wrist improved enough to cast right handed again. It wasn’t pretty and was very frustrating to start with, but it was learn to do it or give up fishing. That was twenty years ago now, and I would need to practice with the left again to have a remote resemblance to casting crack handed once more.
So do you mean that your left hand has not memory of your hold training? 😊
@@dariomanfroi9447 never really felt naturally proficient with the left hand and reverted back to right hand when i regained my strength back in my right arm. I can still cast left handed (very badly) if i have to, but prefer right handed across the body and over my left shoulder
@@gregwood4653 exactly, is the same for me; when I need I cast left handed but the beauty of loop comes from my right hand
You could also fish your back cast but if it's injured your right and it won't matter
This is something I need to learn for my spey type casting
Hi
There was one thing (the flip side, to the story about casting in the wind in broad open spaces on the east saltwater coastline using fly rods). A thing that came to my attention. Not too long ago.
Somebody I know, who gives classes in Spey casting. On quite wide, large rivers. In north America. Ended up fly fishing. In a trout stream. Using a single handed rod. And for whatever reason. On that day. Could not 'put it together'. No cast seemed to be working.
It's a while now. Too long. Since I had fished on water. In the past couple of years almost. And I got to test out. Some new streamer flies. Only today. I didn't just 'test' the streamer flies. I went through the process. Very systematically. Where I lined up around half a dozen fly rods. Using around a full dozen. Different line densities and type (the one thing, I should have done and a fellow angler reminded me I missed). Was to test using 'five' foot length sinking tip attachments. From Airflo. I use the full range of the ten foot length variety (which if you imagine, on a narrow river channel, a ten foot length fast sinking Airflo leader, acts a little bit like a full sinking line effectively).
Now in terms of channel width. I think the size of river. That I am talking about here (and this is a salmon river that varies enormously in channel width from it's top to it's bottom at the sea). Because it has so many large tributary rivers that join, and become part of it. So you really do end needing. To vary your fly fishing tackle quite a lot. Ideally speaking. Even over short distances along the river. Of ten to twenty miles. One 'set up' that worked upstream. Does not work at all well. Further down. The part of the river I was doing fly design 'swim tests' in. Would have been thirty to forty feet across. In most places. Which is nothing. In terms of casting distance. But it's a fast moving river too. A lot of current. So you do end up working 'down stream' (the 'flies' I had designed and was testing, were one's that would enable me to cast upstream too, using streamers).
I was testing upstream casts. Which are rather different in a lot of ways. To downstream. Or cross stream (of course, an advantage of streamer fly fishing, is the ability to work with short casting directly across, using say a 'twenty five' foot cast). Where you can search and probe along bank edges. In the way that conventional gear bass anglers do a lot. What I've realized though. Even though I had a load of different line systems, rods and around 'six' distinct types of streamer. And size of streamer (with some streamers, such as rabbit it's a weight thing of casting a dead weight). With other streamers such as deer hair. It's an air resistance thing. If the deer hair fly is large. Using fly rods and lines. That ranged for today's testing. Between four weight and up to seven weight. Although, in the end. I ran out of time. Before I could break out the seven weight stuff.
To cut a long story short though. I learned a lot from swim testing the new flies. Much of which was un-expected (flies that 'swam' upside down, swam side-ways, floated when they should have sunk, and tangled up in ways that were un-anticipated). The long and the short of it was. That old chestnut. The fly rod's 'personality'. A four weight, eight foot slow action fly rod. Worked perfect at short distance. Using a six weight fast sinking line. On the short casts. A nine foot, five weight fast action fly rod. Only came into it's element. When it was paired to a seven weight floating line. And a brand new 'six' weight. Very parabollic action rod I acquired two weeks ago. I had only just taken out of it's tube. For the first. Was lethal when combined with a six weight integrated sinking tip line (sinking part was a whole ten foot, when I measured it). The combination was ideal. And the funny thing is. That six weight sinking tip fly line. Was purchased in 2005. And never used (because I didn't have a fly rod ever that seemed to suit it).
Hi, I have a theory about casting with the opposite hand. Almost every person has a dominant hand but...also a dominant eye. Who plays archery know what does mean. On my point of view if a person cast with the opposite hand and his dominant eye is also opposite he or she has an advantage because it's important to align the dominant eye with the rod line. Moreover he or she has more finesse in the line hand. Perhaps someone is agree with me?😊
I'm also a photographer and it's very common for people to have a dominant eye in the way they use their cameras. I've found that I really don't have much of a dominant eye when using a camera. If I'm using a rangefinder style, I use my right eye, but if I'm using an SLR style, I use my left.
When casting on the left side, I switch my stance, so my head position changes and also the eye used to aim the cast. Good point. I had thought about this issue with photography, but not with casting. Thinking about it, I realize that I use either eye for aiming the cast.
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