Dave Dirks - New York
Dave was stung with the Tenkara bug in 2009 and has enjoyed catching trout on his favorite Catskill trout streams ever since. Dave is a licensed NYS professional fishing guide...
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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...
Tenkara Fishing Tips
Tenkara Care testimonial
The words below are one of the nicest testimonials about how our Tenkara Care program is ensuring customers use our rods more often than any other, because they know we...
Best hydration solution for fishing
A few months ago I wrote about what has become my best hydration solution while fishing. For years I used to carry a water bottle, but then would run out of...
Infographic: Should you try tenkara?
PDF: Tenkara Infographic
TJ ties the "Salt and Pepper" Sakasa Kebari
TJ ties his favorite tenkara fly, the Salt and Pepper tenkara fly, in the sakasa kebari style. He will be tying the “gourmet” version, which is tied with two feathers...
Discovering Tenkara
Guest Blog Post by Discover Tenkara team Producing fly fishing DVDs is a wonderful labour of love with the potential satisfaction of creating something that could be owned and enjoyed...
Quick tip: Always have your fishing license on you
I also have a horrible habit of misplacing things, and, while I carry one of our strap-packs in the vast majority of times I go fishing, I have on occasion...
The Vagabox saga
Oh, the places you’ll go! Have you heard of the Vagabox?In 2012 one of the users of our forum, Acheateaux, had this idea of creating a traveling tenkara fly box....
Podcast: Tenkara's Evolution with Ask About Fly Fishing
On June 4th I participated in the internet radio show Askaboutflyfishing.com. Roger Maves and I talked about “Tenkara’s Evolution”. We started with the basics of what tenkara is, then moved on...
Ask About Fly Fishing.com
On June 4th Daniel participated the internet radio show Askaboutflyfishing.com. Roger Maves and I talked about “Tenkara’s Evolution”. We started talking about the basics of what tenkara is, then moved on...
TENKARA+ Biking
Tenkara biking? You betcha.We like to think that we exist to inspire you to get outside. And, we recognize most of your lives do not revolve around fly-fishing, there are...
Tenkara Master For A Day
Ever have one of those days on the river where everything goes perfect? Perfect temperature outside, perfect river flows, perfect casting, perfect hook-sets, perfect landing, perfect trout handling, perfect picture...
Do NOT throw your tenkara rod in the water
We’ve been hearing a lot of comments recently about the very stupid myth, or “instruction”, that if you catch a good size fish on tenkara, you should throw your tenkara...
Tenkara One Fly V. The Marginal Benefits of Multiple Flies
The “One fly” concept of tenkara – in which it is observed that most experienced tenkara anglers in Japan stick with one fly and don’t change it all the time, and that...
Amago on tenkara, by Discover Tenkara
Our customer service staff member, John Geer, says “Sometimes I think tenkara rods are as much for catching beauty as they are for catching fish.” Wouldn’t you agree? This is...
Welcome to Tenkara 2.0
Press Release Here Five years ago we embarked on an adventure of sorts, introducing a method of fishing unknown outside of Japan at the time to people interested in fly-fishing....