New Shirt: Sebatake-Kun
On a recent visit to Japan, I spent time with one of the longest-practicing tenkara anglers in the country, Mr. Yuzo Sebata. One of Mr. Sebata’s students had created a...
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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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NEW TENKARA RODS SATO and RHODO Triple-zoom with "KEEP YOUR PLUG"
Our newest tenkara rods are now in! *** RHODO – Triple-zoom 8’10”/ 9’9”/10’6” (270/297/320cm), with “Keep your Plug™” system (patent pending) – $215 SATO – Triple-zoom 10’8”/ 11’10”/12’9” (330-360-390cm), with...
Entertaining tenkara video
Here’s an entertaining tenkara video made by Ron Giesecke. He created the video as a submission to the 2014 Fly Fishing Film Tour, unfortunately it wasn’t accepted. Based on the quality of...
7 Tenkara Videos you Must Watch
We have put out a lot of videos since our inception in 2009. 88 to be exact. Here are 5 videos we think you must watch to learn tenkara, tenkara...
Tenkara Knot Posters
Here’s a very neat poster illustrating some of the knots used in tenkara when tying the tapered lines to the rod and how they all go together. The art was...
Tenkara Techniques - 6 basic techniques for tenkara
In this video Daniel Galhardo, founder of Tenkara USA, shares six basic presentation techniques for tenkara. These techniques were taught to Daniel directly from the main tenkara anglers in Japan,...
The 80/20 rule in fly-fishing?
The 80-20 rule is a powerful and nearly universal, which states that, for a large variety of events, 80% of the results will come from 20% of causes/inputs. It is...
Just a reminder of why we fish
Just got back from fishing and had to share a couple of nice pictures with you. No point I want to make here except that fishing is pretty darn fun!...
Why the Reverse Hackle on Tenkara Flies?
While not all tenkara flies have the hackle facing forward (away from the bend of the hook / “reverse”), the most popular and most easily recognizable tenkara flies do. These...
1 of 750 - Saving the Greenback Cutthroat
When I caught this trout three years ago I was ecstatic. It was my first visit to Colorado. I had heard they had a very exquisite trout that was native to...
Wade up or not?
We like to say that all you need to fly fish is a rod, line and fly. And, to a large extent that is very true. That really is all...
How to Cast with Tenkara
This new video will show you the foundations of how to cast with tenkara. This tenkara casting video is long overdue but I hope it will help you as you...
Pulsing Tenkara Flies
by John Geer Pulsing flies has become one of my favorite techniques to use with a tenkara rod, but the idea of imparting motion to flies was very strange to...
The Tenkara Heart
by TJ Ferreira Last week I posted a message on my facebook page that I was feeling a little down because it had been almost a month since I last...
Raison D'être
I like to think Tenkara USA has a reason for being, and it is not to capitalize on the “tenkara trend”. After all, there was no tenkara trend when I...
Tenkara Humor and some very big fish
[UPDATE: The show below will be available online, LIVE, this Saturday at 9am Eastern/7am Western on TUFF TV’s live network feed] Many years ago I saw a sign on the side...