Tenkara Cast: 2 new episodes
Listen to our two newest episodes of the Tenkara Cast: 1) Traveling and tenkara fishing in Japan Thinking of traveling to Japan and interested in fishing while you’re there? You...
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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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Jeff Gottfried - Oregon
Jeffry Gottfried, co-founder and executive director of non-profit, Educational Recreational Adventures has been fly fishing for 46 years and fishing primarily tenkara for 7 years. Each year, Jeff and his...
New rod cases available
A little while ago we updated our tenkara rod cases. If you are interested in getting one of the new Tenkara USA rod cases to upgrade your existing one, these...
Rod Woten-Iowa
I have owned and operated a Coldwater guide Service for about 6 years now. After giving Tenkara a try two years ago in The Black Hills of South Dakota, I...
Ishigaki week: day 2
Phew! Long day. Dr. Ishigaki and I had an early start. We first headed to the new office and worked on video interviews and recordings for the podcast for almost...
Ishigaki week
My teacher Dr. Hisao Ishigaki, whom most of you have read about by now, has just arrived in Boulder. While he couldn’t make it to this year’s Tenkara Summit, he...
Peak Gear Award - Sato Kit
From Elevation Outdoors:Why It Won: Tenkara makes fly fishing a new experience for anyone who tries it. The cast is simple to learn (and some longtime fly anglers on staff...
Tenkara Cast: 2 new episodes
Today I released two new episodes of the Tenkara Cast.The main episode for today is an interview with Nick “Takénobu” Ogawa. His music has been a major part of Tenkara USA’s...
Tenkara Cast - a podcast on tenkara with me...
Hey everyone,Today we are launching a new way for you to consume information about tenkara, the Tenkara Cast. A podcast is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time....
Gink & Gasoline & Tenkara
You are probably rightly thinking I have been neglecting the blog for sometime. But, I hope you’re not thinking anything along the lines of, “tenkara is simple, he must have...
Eric Phannenstiel - Colorado
Eric is a ski guide turned fishing guide, and has lived in Vail for the past 25 years. He is passionate about sharing his local waters and teaching tenkara. When...
Riverside Cooking with Clay Hayes of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
Here’s a very nice video created by Clay Hayes for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Clay goes out tenkara fishing and foraging in Idaho.
Mike Willis - California
As a Tenkara USA Ambassador and Certified Guide, teaching and promoting tenkara is Mike’s passion. He offers individual and group demonstrations and classes covering both traditional and non-traditional tenkara techniques...
Tenkara with Hans Florine
Hans Florine is best known for his rock climbing career, which includes setting the record for the fastest ascent of El Capitan (climbing 3,000ft of vertical rock in 2 hours and...
Tenkara and climbing with Hans Florine
The World’s fastest rock climber, Hans Florine, talks about how tenkara and climbing can go very well together. We went fishing and climbing in Eldorado State Park, outside of Boulder,...
Dan Pierce - Maine
Dan Pierce is the first registered Maine fishing guide to guide exclusively tenkara. He specializes in group and one on one instruction of tenkara techniques as well as on water...