Tenkara Videos

Freeing stuck segments

While Dr. Ishigaki was visiting he showed us a very cool method for freeing two segments that are stuck on a tenkara rod (or any telescopic...

From the archive · 20101 min read

Fly Tying material: Zenmai (Fern dubbing)

I love the idea of using natural materials on all my flies. Through tenkara I learned about a material most people accustomed to the western fly-tying...

From the archive · 20102 min read

Stream ecology research, and Dr. Shigeru Nakano

Recently, a fisheries PhD candidate at Oregon State brought to our attention the work of Dr. Shigeru Nakano. Dr. Nakano was a researcher in Japan, who...

From the archive · 20101 min read

Tenkara fly fishing

From the archive · 20101 min read

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...

From the archive · 20092 min read

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...

From the archive · 20091 min read

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...

From the archive · 20091 min read

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...

From the archive · 20092 min read

"From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks"

About a month ago I learned about a project called "Manzanar: "From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks"...fishing stories from Manzanar". As mentioned on their site, the...

From the archive · 20091 min read