Tying Tenkara Flies II, in progress
Had a terrific evening of tying tenkara flies and talking about them with Gordon Wickstrom at the Tenkara USA headquarters. This is the beginning of working on Volume 2 of the Tying...
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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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Trip Report: The Accidental Discovery of a Technique
With the end of the Fly Fishing Show season I finally feel that I can enjoy my new home and the new homewaters that surround it. There are two beautiful...
Sport Fishing Sustainability in Japan
Two years ago I spent 2 months in the small mountain village of Maze, Japan. I was seeking to learn all I could about tenkara in what could be considered...
"I Am Kebari" - I Am Fly
by TJ Ferreira Phew! What a great couple of months! The experience at all of the fly fishing shows these last couple of months left me thinking of adopting the...
Tenkara is the Unicorn of Fly Fishing
Thanks to Mike from Troutrageous, the “The Secret To Tenkara’s Fish Catching Superiority” has not been a secret for about a year. He spilled the beans on the fact that we put...
The More You Know ... The Less You Need
If you know fish will take your dry fly, even if it is wet and under, or… If you know you can false-cast your fly to fish near the surface,...
Tenkara Tattoo 4: Adam Trahan
Adam Trahan “Tenkara-Fisher” decided to join the brotherhood of inked tenkara anglers this week with a beautiful tenkara sakasa kebari on his forearm. I feel honored he’d join in with...
The Art of NOT False Casting
by TJ Ferreira False casting has a certain romantic magic about it when it is done out on a river. Enough romance with false casting that it can be considered...
Simplicity is Sacred
As a good follow up to the post I wrote yesterday, the Denver Post is featuring a story on tenkara in today’s paper. It is a well-written piece by Scott...
New Tenkara License Plate in Virginia
You may have seen the tenkara license plates (one more here) that have sprung up around the country. One more plate has now appeared in Virginia, courtesy of Krisztina and Peter Roder....
Tenkara Tattoo 3: The moving tenkara fly by TUSA founder
For the last 14 years, just about half of my life, I have thought of getting a tattoo. I know it is a permanent thing, so I certainly never felt...
A Story of Discovering
Everyone has his or her own story of how they got into fly-fishing, and then how they discovered tenkara. Earlier last year Karel Lansky ran a contest on his blog for...
Ice Shelf - Winter Fishing with Tenkara
Fish seek two things in particular: food and shelter. Both of these elements change in the winter, food becomes more scarce, and in many parts of the country so do...
Another Tenkara angler’s
We receive a lot of good emails from clients, but have always kept them to ourselves. Yesterday I set up the precedent of asking for permission to post a new...
Email: A new tenkara angler's email to us
This weekend Tenkara USA participated at the Marlborough Fly Fishing Show in MA. I got to meet some great folks and the interest in tenkara was superb. From fathers getting...
Baby Name: Tenkara
No, Margaret and I are not about to have a baby. And, no, we’re not talking about baby names yet either. Jason Klass of TenkaraTalk.com just shared this post of someone thinking of...