Tenkara USA Product Review Winners
A huge thank you to all of you who contributed with product reviews! You contributed a total of 218 reviews during the contest period! This is really helping give our...
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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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We want product reviews! Will give prizes for honest reviews
We just released a new feature on this site: Product Reviews. But, the reviews are trickling in slowly. We really would like for you to review the products you have...
First records of Tenkara
The original tenkara angler was generally illiterate, and truth-be-told, not at all interested in making a record of his time fishing. It took a British diplomat, spending time in Japan,...
Revisited: Tenkara in the hands of UK's great anglers
Originally posted on October 22nd, 2009. A look at Tenkara in the hands of some of the great names of fly-fishing in the UK. Great picture by Mr. Peter Lapsley....
Tenkara Week - Idaho
This is Tenkara Week - Idaho. For quite sometime I have thought of coming to Idaho, it just never seemed to work out in the past. Then, recently a very...
The Fly Fish Journal sneak
It's been a long time coming, and I have been anxiously waiting for these to come out. We finally received our copies of the latest issue of The Fly Fish...
New Tenkara bamboo Fly Box
UPDATE: Contest Winner(s) at the end of the post What does tenkara mean to you? (Contest) There are a couple of tenkara contests going around at the moment, like the...
Midcurrent features interview with Tenkara USA founder
Anthony Naples, who runs the blog Casting Around, interviewed me for a feature on the website Midcurrent.com. You're probably tired of hearing my story, but Anthony's questions are good and could only...
Tenkara Guides of Utah on the news!
The guys from Tenkaraguides.com, Erik Ostrander, John Vertelli, and Rob Worthing, marked a new milestone for tenkara's introduction in the US by appearing at the TV program KSL Outdoors with...
Article: "The More You Know The Less You Need"
This article was originally written by Daniel Galhardo for Ryan Jordan, of Backpackinglight.com, with the theme "Pack Less Be More": The More you Know the Less you Need The first...
Image for the day: In Search of Tenkara
A picture I took while in Japan has been receiving a lot of comments on Facebook, so I thought I would share that here today. This image was taken in...
Maruhachi - A taste of old Japan in a mountain ryokan
Last May I got to spend 2 months in the Japanese mountain village of Maze, on the shores of the Mazegawa (Maze River). I went exclusively to learn everything I...
Tenkara Photograph of the Day
After the extremely popular post on my interaction with Lefty Kreh, him calling tenkara a fad even as TFO wanted to make their own tenkara rods, and then a recap...
Tenkara Catches On
The current issue of Fly Tyer magazine (Winter 2011) has an article marking a milestone for tenkara in the USA. Morgan Lyle, the author, has been following the tenkara movement...
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As we try to spread the word about tenkara, advertising can be a powerful tool (though not nearly as powerful as you spreading the word to friends and family!). We...
Merry Christmas Tenkara Anglers!
Image by Joel Dejong