Tenkara Tattoo 4: Adam Trahan
Adam Trahan “Tenkara-Fisher” decided to join the brotherhood of inked tenkara anglers this week with a beautiful tenkara sakasa kebari on his forearm. I feel honored he’d join in with...
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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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The Art of NOT False Casting
by TJ Ferreira False casting has a certain romantic magic about it when it is done out on a river. Enough romance with false casting that it can be considered...
Tenkara Podcast Daniel Galhardo and Jason Klass talk tenkara
This morning someone at the Tenkara Anglers Facebook Group suggested that Jason Klass of Tenkaratalk.com and I do a podcast together. Brilliant idea. Everytime I talk to Jason on the phone we have great...
Simplicity is Sacred
As a good follow up to the post I wrote yesterday, the Denver Post is featuring a story on tenkara in today’s paper. It is a well-written piece by Scott...
One Tenkara Fly - A personal choice
If you’re like most fly anglers, you like flies. Small and large, dull and shiny, reversed or “normal”. As we have introduced tenkara outside of Japan, we have focused on...
Tenkara Fly Tying with Loften Deprez
This weekend Tenkara USA is attending the Winston-Salem Fly Fishing Show in North Carolina. Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Loften Deprez, someone who has been contributing to the...
NEW ROD: Ayu Series II
Most of our products go through minor iterations and revisions on a regular basis. We follow the Japanese philosophy of kaizen, or continuous improvement, and are constantly making the rods, lines...
New Tenkara License Plate in Virginia
You may have seen the tenkara license plates (one more here) that have sprung up around the country. One more plate has now appeared in Virginia, courtesy of Krisztina and Peter Roder....
Tenkara Guides Tenkara Fly Tying Video
The Tenkara Guides of Utah put together this really cool fly-tying video below. I love their use of multiple cameras and embedded picture-in-picture editing. Check it out:
Tenkara Tattoo 3: The moving tenkara fly by TUSA founder
For the last 14 years, just about half of my life, I have thought of getting a tattoo. I know it is a permanent thing, so I certainly never felt...
A Story of Discovering
Everyone has his or her own story of how they got into fly-fishing, and then how they discovered tenkara. Earlier last year Karel Lansky ran a contest on his blog for...
Use your tenkara rod as a practice fly rod
It has always struck me as a bit funny to have mini rods made for the purpose of practicing casting (although I recognize it strikes a lot of people as...
Talking of simplicity
Lance Gurney, a loyal Tenkara USA customer, volunteered at our booth this weekend at the Somerset Fly Fishing Show. He took the long drive from Maine to New Jersey to...
What folks are saying about tenkara (VIDEO)
Today I have been asking people what they think about tenkara. Here are a few people we met today and their thoughts about this simple way of fly-fishing.
Somerset Fly Fishing Show
The biggest flyfishing show of the season just started. The Tenkara USA spaceship is up. And the crew is pumped for 3 days of spreading tge method. Come by and...