As a right handed person who has fished for 50 years I find it strange that when I walk into a store here on the Island, nearly all the level wind and centre pin reels are RH retrieve, which is actually for a lefty. After fishing for 50 yrs, I have always casted and controlled the rod with my right hand. My freshwater fishing gear, as well as fly rods have always been that way. Nearly all the spinning reels are the opposite and are set up what I consider the correct way for a righty, with a LH retrieve, so I find that a little confusing. As I am just starting out with saltwater setups I went to buy 2 downrigger setups, as well as 2 bottom setups today and looked at an endless array of RH retrieve reels but very little LH retrieve. Not a big deal with the downriggers as I got a couple of inexpensive centre pins for those and they are easy to change over but I wanted to put level winds on the bottom rods and I think they only had 2 reels. I'm sure I can find them online, just seems odd that they want to force both LH and right handed people to reel one way. And no, I don't want to fish with the reel upside down and wind backwards.