Manzanar Fishing Club (Movie)
Quite sometime ago we talked about the beginnings of a fascinating film project, the Manzanar Fishing Club. This project documents the stories and history of Japanese...
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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,...
Tenkara lessons from 6-year old Jack
On my last post I said the off-topic post would not set the precedent to talking about funny cats. But, I could not have predicted the...
Wasatch Fly Fishing Expo
This weekend we participated at the Wasatch Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Expo. It was very much a last minute decision to attend. The Tenkara Guides...
Camera phone microscope: optical lens for you entomologists
For the first time I'll be taking the liberty to talk about something that is not totally related to tenkara, but which I think you'll enjoy,...
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...
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...
Tenkara Knots - Back to the basics
At recent weeks I have had a chance to spend time with a lot of people who have been doing tenkara for sometime, and others who...
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...
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...
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...
Pasadena Fly Fishing Show Bad jokes, a good story, and a phenomenal show
The Pasadena Fly Fishing Show is over, and we consider it another great success thanks to the kind and energetic help of Rick and Sherry Setina,...
Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show Recap
The Pleasanton show ended yesterday, took me about a day to recover. What a show! For tenkara, this was the apex of the fly fishing show...
Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show And, TFM Spotting Pictures
Our booth has been up and running at the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show the last couple of day, and again I have to consider it a...
Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show
Today we setup our booth at the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show, tomorrow the real fun starts! Daniel has two demonstrations scheduled at this show, one on...
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...
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...
"Tenkara is not dapping" campaign
The most common misconception about tenkara it that it is just dapping - that because the line is tied to the tip of the rod, it...
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...
Tenkara USA, passionate bloggers and Somerset
"Otsukaresama deshita" can be taken to mean "thank you for being tired", more literally "you are tired", and is usually used to express "good job" after...
Tenkara USA at Somerset Fly Fishing Show - Day 1
Wow, what a show this is! Today was the first time we held out own booth at a Fly Fishing show, and the first day at...
Somerset Fly Fishing Show - Setting up
Somerset, NJ Fly Fishing Show, January 27-29: This will be the big one! Not only is Somerset the biggest fly-fishing only show in the world, but Tenkara...
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,...
Lefty Kreh, TFO: "Tenkara is a fad"
"Tenkara is a fad and it won't last long", Lefty Kreh, the legendary fly-caster and face for TFO (a fly-fishing company) told me this morning as...
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