Fishing upstream or downstream?
The long-standing question from a tenkara perspective Many times inspiration for our blog posts comes straight from the great community of tenkara anglers hosted in our forum. In recent days...
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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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Studying Japanese Another book post
In just about 3 months I will be heading to Japan to learn the intricacies of tenkara. For 2 months I will be living in a fairly remote village, by...
Book Review: Tenkara
It's official, the first book in English about tenkara has been published! This is the great work of tenkara enthusiasts Kevin C. Kelleher, MD, and Ms. Misako Ishimura, and marks...
The creation of a new product categoryTenkara fly-fishing in a graph
Tenkara USA created a brand new category, a new market, in the fly-fishing industry: tenkara (you may also call it "simpler fly-fishing", "mountain stream fly-fishing" and a "great fly-fishing method...
Talking of tenkara flies... Tenkara flies analyzed
Some people consider winter the fly-tying season, thus our recent posts on tenkara fly-tying. With the very large number of new tenkara adopters and readers of our blog since this...
Tenkara fly-tying shot with macro lens
Today we have showing the simplicity of tenkara fly-tying. It was shot with a 100mm macro lens in real time, not edited, with the fly being tied beginning to end....
Tenkara fly-tying, large sakasa kebari
Tenkara fly-tying, sakasa kebari Demonstration on how to tie a tenkara sakasa kebari (reverse-hackle tenkara fly). This fly is tied on a large, size 8 hook. It is ideal for fishing...
Tenkara rod, Iwana redesignFeedback from tenkara masters
While Tenkara USA is a fully independent company with no commercial ties with a Japanese company, we are very fortunate to have established very strong relationships with tenkara masters in...
Tenkara techniques: Part 3 (sinking your fly)
Think about the origins of tenkara and western fly-fishing. Tenkara was originated by commercial fishermen, whose livelihoods depended on very efficiently and cheaply catching fish. Instead of spending time tying...
Tenkara techniques: Part 2 (not swinging a fly)
Two of the main goals to fly-fishing technique are attracting a fish, and getting the fish to actually take the fly. Dr. Ishigaki and other anglers in Japan have done...
Tenkara techniques: Part 1 (drag-free drift)
A post on tenkara fishing techniques has been long overdue. I have written many times about how relying on technique instead of fly patterns and additional gear is a good...
Sanpei cartoon, tenkara episodes
It's been a while since I have written anything on tenkara in this blog. To be honest, unless there is something I really feel like I need to share I...
Tenkara nets now available
I have said it before and will say it again, I have fallen in love with tenkara nets for stream fishing. After a lot of requests for us to offer...
Tenkara featured in the New York Times!!!
A major milestone for tenkara in the US. Yesterday an article on tenkara was published in the New York Times! It is inevitable that after the period of intrigue, and...
Tenkara Ouji
For the last several years the sport of fly-fishing has been threatened by decline, primarily attributed to young kids not taking up their parent's and grandparent's most soothing activity. As more...
Tenkara USA featured in Japanese magazine
This month Tenkara USA is being featured in the Japanese fly-fishing magazine, Fly Rodders. Fly Rodders is one of the leading magazines on fly-fishing in Japan. The mention is very...