We've all seen folks use a spinning rod upside down, but this tops that.

 

So I went down to the river. There was a guy there standing over his tackle box so I said howdy. We discussed lures, and he seemed to have a solid understanding and vocabulary about the subject. After a bit he went to fishing. He had a zebco 33, one of the newer ones. I looked over and he was holding the rod upside down, with the reel on the bottom, and backwards reeling with his left hand.

Working the kinks out of one of his kids rods?  My son fishes lefty and I've been doing a lot of crossover casting as a result.  Maybe this is like that?

I use to reverse the spools on Johnson Centurys. They had a switch to reverse reel. I used them the way you describe. Dont know if new 33's have that switch or not.

He had no kids with him.

I thought I was the only one that has seen that....glad to know im.not alone. Saw a guy struggling once with a spinning reel upside down...just having a heck of a time. I offered to show him the correct way and hey spouted "I don't need any f$%&-+# help!".... ok, good luck a#%hat.

17 hours ago, Bazoo said:

I looked over and he was holding the rod upside down, with the reel on the bottom, and backwards reeling with his left hand.

I was shore fishing today and an extended family came in and scattered about the area. 

Reels used

 - 1 spinning reel - used correctly

 - 1 casting reel - he'd throw the lure correctly, but then flip the rig over and backwards reel

 - 6 spincast reels - all tossed their lure correctly, but again they'd flip the rig over and backwards reel

 

I just felt so sad.