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Tenkara Fishing Tips

Tenkara is NOT

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 dozen methods of fresh...

Stop Coal Mining

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 of the 5th Annual...

UTAH - Public water access

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 protect our waters. It...

Tenkara in Brazil

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 earliest days of fishing,...

2010 Happy New Year!

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 to be the year...

Our 1% for the Planet Trout

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 World Trout program, which...

Tenkara Level Lines and Larger Streams

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 of lines are used:...

Tenkara featured in California Fly Fisher

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 magazine and has several...

World Trout

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 stunning watercolor painting of...

American Angler magazine

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 few mistakes made in...

Tenkara Comics from tenkara father

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 picture. A very good...

Tenkara: fly-fishing in great hands

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 the River Itchen, one...

First Tenkara Outing

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 crisp, and the fish...

The Tenkara Experience - New Video

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 a "this is...