I know it well   When flipping and pitching, with the slack in the line and a second to compose before the hookset, I'll swing with both hand on the rod and reel.  My old partner always said it sounds like a golf club swinging away.  Especially with a 7'11 generating the speed. 

I keep both hands on my gear when I set too even though 98% of the power is generated from the left, the right just kind of follows along. The worst is if you have a dink hit really close and slam him and that's what goes flying past your partners head haha.

I keep both hands on my gear when I set too even though 98% of the power is generated from the left, the right just kind of follows along. The worst is if you have a dink hit really close and slam him and that's what goes flying past your partners head haha.

Ah yes, good times!  Sometimes gotta duck out of the way of those dinkers.  Can't wait to get the season going!!

Ah yes, good times!  Sometimes gotta duck out of the way of those dinkers.  Can't wait to get the season going.

Same here! Only God knows how much ice is left up here though :/

Im right handed. Use left hand retrieve baitcasters and spinning reels. Was right eye doninate but after an injury to my eye ik left eye dominant

Same here! Only God knows how much ice is left up here though :/

We had 26" so you must have had a bit more. I'm just a few hours south of you.  Either way, we're just not getting warm enough to really cause some damage to that base layer.  At this rate, we're gonna have some cancelled tournaments.  Work tomorrow, off to sleep!  Talk soon.

 

Also, I palm my baitcasters, those of you that cast with the right and reel with the left do you do the same? Just wondering because to me not having used one it seems like it'd be hard to cast with the reel palmed.

I've asked this question before and never really got an answer. I tried a left handed baitcaster when I was going to get my first, and the move from the trigger during casting to palming was more awkward than just switching hands, and I couldn't cast while palming the reel.

I've asked this question before and never really got an answer. I tried a left handed baitcaster when I was going to get my first, and the move from the trigger during casting to palming was more awkward than just switching hands, and I couldn't cast while palming the reel.

Thanks for a definitive answer! Also it's a lot cheaper than going out and buying one to try since as far as I know everyone else I've fished with and around I've seen doing the same thing.