The Outdoor Line Forum

I went out to pick up a mooching reel with a line counter yesterday.
I like to have my rod in my right hand and reel with my left. I'm right handed and I hold rod on the upper handle with my thumb on the blank so I can feel more of whats going. Being right handed I feel that my hand hand is more sensitive to feeling then my left. With mooching some hits can be very subtle.

While looking for a line-counter model I could hardly find left hand retrieve reel. Not sure if it because the manufactures are not making them or if stores don't carry them. I ended up getting a Cabelas 600 reel but I think it is going back after looking at it and I guess parts are hard to get.

I would like to hear from guys who mooch a lot, do you prefer left retrieve? I was told at Cabelas that Shimano doesn't make a left-hand retrieve Tekota. Is that the case?
Also, how do you prefer to retrieve? Left-handed? Or, right handed?

I would call or go see mike at teds sporting goods in Lynwood 425-743-9595. He would be able to take care of you

That's because there are no "good"left hand retrieve line counters out there.
Okuma, I know what your thinking, actually has just come out with there new Coldwater series designed for the NW has has a sick left hand LC with 18lbs of drag.
Not sure if it's available yet but should be any day.
Check it out

I'm really starting to see the use and need for a line-counter reel.
There are definitely advantages for mooching, vertical jigging and shallow trolling (Columbia springers and Buoy 10 fall chinook to name a few)

Robbo Endsley is a master in the use of line-counters and when used in conjunction with his Lowrance Electronics, the line-counter becomes your herring "guidance system" to make a surgically-accurate presentation to provoke a strike from a wary chinook!

Lefty line-counters are rare simply because of the availability of those little three-digit counters, the vast majority of which are driven from the right side of the case.
When you couple that with the lack of demand for left-handed reels in general well, as they say...
"There's your problem..."
That, and the fact that people who retrieve left-handed are just messed up to begin with..
Check with John Martinis of John's Sporting Goods in Everett!