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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Fish seek two things in particular: food and shelter. Both of these elements change in the winter, food becomes more scarce, and in many parts of the country so do...
We receive a lot of good emails from clients, but have always kept them to ourselves. Yesterday I set up the precedent of asking for permission to post a new...