You guys make it sound like switching the rod from hand to hand takes some immense amount of effort and a great deal of time.

It takes neither.

Fish a lefty if it suits you. Fish a righty if it suits you. Be really cool and fish both. We're not really going to debate this for 4 pages are we?
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