Hi guys

I’ve ended up with a problem in my left elbow which gives me a bit of pain when I go fishing, basically it’s tennis elbow and it’s because I hold my fishing rod in my left hand and wind with my right hand.

Doctor thinks it will take about 6 months to come right so it’s time to swap to holding the fishing rod in the right and winding with the left. I’m lucky I really only use spinning reels so can swap the handle over.

Has anyone here swapped over and did it take long until it started to feel normal.

Cheers Kerry

MB wrote: I'm right handed, hold the rod in my right and wind left handed. I could not imagine getting comfortable doing it the other way around. It just feels so wrong. That said, people learn to do all sorts of things after significant injuries, so I guess anything is possible!

I’m gunna be an old dog leaning new tricks here, but I’ve had a go with the line tied to the work bench, holding the rod in the right hand won’t take long to get used to but winding with the left hand feels really gangly and uncoordinated. I’ll just have to change my reel handles over and get out there and give it a go.

I'm left handed. I hold the rod with my left and wind with my right on both spin and overhead gear. That way I don't have to shuffle things around when casting, closing bail arms etc. My son Arron is right handed and he does the exact opposite for the same reasons. I've believed for many years that manufacturers got it wrong when they describe a reel as right handed. 

Thanks guys I watched a matt Watson video about hold rod in the right hand and winding with the left, he said it took him a couple of days to sort it and now only fishes that way

Looks like I’m just gunna have to do more fishing to practice

You bring up a very good point TTK. Maybe if Kerry stopped showing off and caught smaller fish like the rest of he wouldn't have injured himself in the first place. Ohhh I'm starting to sound like the safety department at work.

Just pondering. . ... if you get a sore arm playing tennis is it called fishing elbow?

I'm "normal"  and hold the rod with left hand and as a consequence my Left hand is stronger then my right on a grip test. Some would say that's from too much fishing but is there such a thing? No rude comments.

When I started this thread about which hand you hold your rod in, I thought just wait someone will take this into the toilet

I had this same injury about 3 years ago, golfers elbow, caused by the amount of stray lining with an overhead I had done over a period of about 2 months.  I had to wear a support on the forearm when fishing for the following few months and be cautious of how much of that style of fishing I did.  It took a while but it did come right., at no stage did I consider changing hands....

Kandrew wrote: Keith C wrote: Kandrew wrote: When I started this thread about which hand you hold your rod in, I thought just wait someone will take this into the toilet And you took us there Kandrew. There was no mention of toilet humour until that post Wasn’t me Keith, that smudge fella started it