Left handed tiers

[brannan]

Just wondering if there's many of you out there? Seems most of us are a righty, and therefore spin our materials the right way :-P

[weight_forward]

I think there are a few lefties about but they flip their pictures in photoshop to cover up their disability

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by weight_forward

I think there are a few lefties about but they flip their pictures in photoshop to cover up their disability

Left-handed, but tie right-handed. I flip my pics in photoshop to cover up bad tying

[arkle]

Brannan, there is NO "right way" it's whatever way you find best.

I'm right handed & wind towards myself, instead of the way that most others do it, & other tiers such as Oliver Edwards do the same.

I've re-taught several others to do it this way & they've gone on to win various tying competitions such as the Benson & Hedges etc.

We used to have a right haned person, who like but opposite Rob, tied left handed & very good he was at it to. He could tie as well, if not better than most others in our FDG & a hell of a lot faster.

[savage take]

left handed as well. perfect boat partners. unless your mate's a lefty.

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by savage take

unless your mate's a lefty...

Alex and Col are both left-handed, Andy. Much fun on trips when we shuffle the pack... lets just say I'm glad Alex fishes barbless, and it's a good job
I'm the worlds greatest caster

[savage take]

Originally Posted by Scratch

Alex and Col are both left-handed, Andy. Much fun on trips when we shuffle the pack... lets just say I'm glad Alex fishes barbless, and it's a good job
I'm the worlds greatest caster

just let him take the engine. nothing worse than ducking all day.

[stevekale]

Charlie Craven is a big proponent of tying left-handed even if you are right-handed. He has a lengthy argument for this in his book.

[lhomme]

Originally Posted by brannan

Just wondering if there's many of you out there?

Yep, I even turn the head of my Regal vice upside down. Find the lever to be more comfortable on the far side.

Johan

[Cap'n Fishy]

I tie flies left-handed - and proud of it, though I can't imagine why it could be conceived as being either advantageous or disadvantageous - in principle. I do sometimes get bother with threads that have a twist that unravels when tying leftie.

Most left-handers have their wierdnesses though. I write, throw, cast a single-handed rod, hold a tennis bat, etc, etc in left hand... but when it comes to two-handed things...

Hold a guitar, violin, rifle = left-handed
Hold a golf club, cricket bat, spinning rod, put jooks up = right-handed

I'm way too old to remember if this is because my dad taught me to play golf right-handed so he didn't need to buy me a set of left-handed clubs

I also reel in every reel I have ever owned, including fly reels, fixed spool reels, centre-pins and multipliers: left-handed!

Some conflict when I attempted a double-handed Spey-cast for the first time. Didn't know whether I wanted to hold it like a trout rod or a spinning rod. Everyone said it was a good idea to be able to do it both ways, so I did my best to learn to do that. I think because of the 'fly-ishness' of the thing I'm better at it (ie slightly less awful) with left-hand up the rod.

The 3 left-handers out of 6 on our Orkney trip this year is not the record. A good few years back I was in a 6 man trip to Chew and Blagdon and 4 of us were lefties!

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Originally Posted by lhomme

Yep, I even turn the head of my Regal vice upside down. Find the lever to be more comfortable on the far side.

Johan

I've got an Integra, and the lever is on the far side when the head is facing to the left!

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Originally Posted by stevekale

Charlie Craven is a big proponent of tying left-handed even if you are right-handed. He has a lengthy argument for this in his book.

I've got to know...

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Originally Posted by weight_forward

I think there are a few lefties about but they flip their pictures in photoshop to cover up their disability

Never flipped a fly pic in my puff - tied facing left, photographed facing left, and posted facing left! Disability my arse