Tenkara Tea and Fly Tying
One of the reasons I created Tenkara USA is because I really like introducing friends to things that I love, tenkara fly-fishing, tenkara rods, tenkara nets, now tenkara tea! Drinking...
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Exploring Fall Tenkara Fishing in the Northern Rockies
Fall is a beautiful time of year in the northern Rockies, but for me, it’s always been a little overrated in terms of fishing. Yes, it can be a great...
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Tenkara techniques: Landing fish with long lines
Sometimes to improve our technique we must watch examples of how something should not be done. Yesterday a video showing a tenkara angler in Japan using a very long line...
Freeing stuck segments
While Dr. Ishigaki was visiting he showed us a very cool method for freeing two segments that are stuck on a tenkara rod (or any telescopic rod). It's very simple,...
Fly Tying material: Zenmai (Fern dubbing)
I love the idea of using natural materials on all my flies. Through tenkara I learned about a material most people accustomed to the western fly-tying traditions have never heard...
Stream ecology research, and Dr. Shigeru Nakano
Recently, a fisheries PhD candidate at Oregon State brought to our attention the work of Dr. Shigeru Nakano. Dr. Nakano was a researcher in Japan, who conducted groundbreaking research on...
Tenkara Level Lines and Larger Streams
There has been much discussion about, and a long wait for "the other" line used in tenkara fly-fishing, the tenkara level line. In tenkara, two types of lines are used:...
The Tenkara Experience - New Video
We just posted a new video of tenkara fly-fishing on our gallery and also below. As one tenkara angler who watched it put it, this video is a "this is...
Tenkara in the Land of Little Rivers (Catskills)
Our newest video is finally here. We just finished work on our video of the first tenkara event in the US, which happened in the Catskills back in May. A...
Landing fish
Since introducing tenkara to the US one of the most common questions we have received or read on forums regards landing, and safely landing fish with a tenkara rod. If...
"From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks"
About a month ago I learned about a project called "Manzanar: "From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks"...fishing stories from Manzanar". As mentioned on their site, the project is "documenting the...