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...
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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...
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...
Tenkara Tea and Fly Tying
One of the reasons I created Tenkara USA is because I really like introducing friends to things that I love, tenkara fly-fishing, tenkara rods, tenkara nets,...
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...
Live interview for Japanese radio 東京ラジオ局J-Wave ・テンカラのインタビュー
I have suspected that the popularization of tenkara in the US would help create even more interest for tenkara fly-fishing in Japan. Today, Tenkara USA founder...
Tenkara techniques: Landing fish with long lines
Sometimes to improve our technique we must watch examples of how something should not be done. Yesterday a video showing a tenkara angler in Japan using...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Freeing stuck segments
While Dr. Ishigaki was visiting he showed us a very cool method for freeing two segments that are stuck on a tenkara rod (or any telescopic...
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...
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...
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....
A conversation with Ishigaki sensei
After knowing Ishigaki sensei for about a year and having had many communications with him via email, and after spending several days talking and fishing with...
Manzanita tenkara net
Today I completed my first own tenkara net. It's made of one manzanita branch, found after much looking and worked on for over a month. The...
Tenkara tamo, the experiment continued!
I have been having tons of fun searching for the appropriate branches and then embarking on the adventure of making my own tenkara tamo (tenkara nets)....
Tenkara for veterans
Fly-fishing is one of the most therapeutic activities around, and tenkara's simplicity perhaps even more so. Since the inception of Tenkara USA, we have been approached...
Tenkara USA's tweets of the week #9
A big tenkara WOW: Wow! Don't do this at home, really. #
Tenkara nets, an experiment in making one
I told you, I have fallen in love with the simple, organic elegance of tenkara nets. Though I have very little experience with wood work, I...
Tenkara flies analyzed by Fujioka-sensei
While we subscribe to the theory that fishing is extremely simple, and that a person can successfully fish with one fly pattern, whatever pattern they choose, we also...
Japanese fishing magazines
It had been quite a while since I was last excited about fishing magazines. With the exception of a couple of magazines' recent issues that brought...
Tenkara nets
I have absolutely fallen in love with Tenkara nets (tenkara tamo in Japanese). As I got to see many examples up close, and learn about how...
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