Tenkara Flies on Wednesdays: The Horse Hair Sakasa Kebari
written by Jason This is one of my go-to patterns and lots of people have asked for a video on how to tie. It's a simple pattern, but the...
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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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Tenkara Audio Recent interviews / podcasts with Tenkara USA
Written by Daniel In case you have sometime, I recently participated in a couple of great podcasts that you may want to checkout. A few weeks ago I went to...
Tools for Tenkara Fly Tying
Written by Jason At some point in every fly angler’s life they consider tying their own flies. For some, this happens right at the beginning. For others, it might be...
The practical tenkara fly
Written by Daniel Ishimaru Shotaro, an 89 year old tenkara angler in Japan, offered to give me some of his tenkara flies. He opened the box and out came an...
Trout Hangouts: Bridges
Written by Jason "Trout Hangouts" is an ongoing series in which I highlight one specific element or structure of a river, stream, creek, or lake where trout like to hold...
How to Fish in Chocolate Milk: Tips for Fishing High, Muddy Rivers
Written by Jason It happens to all of us at some point in our fly fishing career: You travel to a stream all full of hope and optimism along the...
Let my Children Go Fishing
Guest post by John Vetterli, of Tenkaraguides.com I don’t know how many of you have seen the short video Daniel made of my 6 year old son Jack practicing casting...
Tenkara: No Entomology Required
Written by Jason Where I grew up, knowing aquatic entomology was considered just as much of a necessary skill in fly fishing as casting. In fact, being able to identify...
Tenkara Flies on Wednesdays The Mamushi Kebari - Snake-skin tenkara fly
Written by Daniel Back in 2010 I wrote about the Mamushi-kebari, or "the snake-skin tenkara fly". Mr. Hirata is the person who either invented it or at least became known...
Press Release: Orvis to Sell Tenkara USA gear
Some very exciting news and a huge milestone for the introduction of tenkara outside of Japan: Orvis, the 156-year old fly-fishing company starts carrying our equipment today! That's an incredible...
Advantages of Zoom Rods
Written by Jason Anyone who has followed my writing probably already knows that my tenkara rod of choice is the Tenkara USA Ito. First and foremost, I love the action...
7lb brown trout on Tenkara
Written by Daniel In his website Ryan Jordan says of tenkara, "If you think roping a bull in a cattle chute with a piece of dental floss sounds totally cool,...
How to Choose the Right Tenkara Rod
Written by Daniel & Jason The number one question we are asked by new tenkara anglers is, “which rod should I get?” It certainly can be confusing since tenkara rods...
Tenkara Tattoo: 2
I never thought I'd have a follow up to a post I did almost a year ago about someone who got so into tenkara that he got some ink on...
Tenkara on Askaboutflyfishing.com on July 11th, 7PM (MT)
This Wednesday, July 11th at 7PM (Mountain Time), I will be answering questions about tenkara on the live internet radio show askaboutflyfishing.com. Please submit any questions you may have about...
Reaching and holding a fish - not like an eagle.
Written by Daniel My wife and I were reviewing pictures from a recent fishing trip we took with two friends who are new to fly-fishing. I mentioned how it was...