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Tenkara featured on Hawaiian Airlines:#tenkara Putah Creek Council holding an event to benefit a stream with tenkara-perfect sections: Putah Creek Council Furled line = “Basu”;Tippet=“Harisu”;Fly= “Kebari”;Landing...
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Tenkara kids
Educational Recreational Adventures (ERA) reports on the use of tenkara at their Spring Bread Fly Fishing Camp on the Crooked River, Oregon. March 25-27, 2010. Written by...
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Tenkara USA on Fox Business: Fox Small Business #tenkara @tenkarausa # Tenkara USA on Fox News: Fox Small Business #tenkara @tenkarausa # David Dirks, Tenkara method a...
"I'm a Tenkara Bum", Chris Stewart
Before there was Tenkara USA, there was tenkara fly angling... and tenkara anglers. One of these anglers is Mr. Chris Stewart. The Tenkara Bum Many anglers...
New, One-Page checkout
In an effort to make your experience shopping with us easier and more pleasant we have now simplified the checkout process. We cut the number of...
Tenkara is NOT
As Dr. Ishigaki's humourous business card suggests, in Japan many non-anglers are not familiar with tenkara. It's not their fault though, Japan has at least a...
Stop Coal Mining
From Coal River Mountain Watch - www.crmw.net This week, over 200 citizens from Appalachia and across the US are gathering in our nation's capital as part...
Give a man a fish: Finding a stream
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese...
UTAH - Public water access
Tenkara USA is largely founded on philosophical principles, primarily: simplify your gear to enjoy the experience (no need to be weighed down by extra stuff), and...
Tenkara in Brazil
Brazil...land of peacock bass, huge snook, and monster amazonic fish! Where could tenkara fit in? Being originally from Brazil I had some sweet memories of my...
2010 Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Today Midcurrent sent out a newsletter with a topic named "Fearless Fly Fishing Predictions - 2010". No one explicitly said 2010 was going...
Our 1% for the Planet Trout
As you may have seen, Tenkara USA has been a member of the 1% For the Planet initiative since its inception. Recently we also joined the...
Tenkara Level Lines and Larger Streams
There has been much discussion about, and a long wait for "the other" line used in tenkara fly-fishing, the tenkara level line. In tenkara, two types...
Tenkara featured in California Fly Fisher
The December '09 edition of California Fly Fisher magazine has a great interview with Tenkara USA founder. The interview is featured across 3 pages of the...
World Trout
Tenkara USA joined the World Trout initiative To raise funds for the conservation of wild trout and their habitat, Tenkara USA designed exclusive t-shirts featuring the...
American Angler magazine
We were very happy to learn that the newest issue of American Angler magazine (November/December 09) contains an article on tenkara fly-fishing. Unfortunately, there were a...
Tenkara Comics from tenkara father
A couple of days ago a package arrived at my mailbox. As I opened it, I was quite overwhelmed, wowed!, astounded, ecstatic, well you get the...
Tenkara: fly-fishing in great hands
Long story short, tenkara just found itself in the hands of some great anglers, one may say "the biggest of big guns" at a gathering in...
First Tenkara Outing
This last weekend Tenkara USA hosted the first tenkara outing in Northern California. And, it was absolutely phenomenal. Leaves were changing colors, weather was cool and...
The Tenkara Experience - New Video
We just posted a new video of tenkara fly-fishing on our gallery and also below.As one tenkara angler who watched it put it, this video is...
Tenkara in the Land of Little Rivers (Catskills)
Our newest video is finally here. We just finished work on our video of the first tenkara event in the US, which happened in the Catskills...
Landing fish
Since introducing tenkara to the US one of the most common questions we have received or read on forums regards landing, and safely landing fish with...
Fishy Kid
A very cool project has just gotten underway with our support: Fishy Kid As the simplest, and arguably most enjoyable and effective method of fly-fishing, we...
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