Book Review: Tenkara
It's official, the first book in English about tenkara has been published! This is the great work of tenkara enthusiasts Kevin C. Kelleher, MD, and Ms....
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The creation of a new product categoryTenkara fly-fishing in a graph
Tenkara USA created a brand new category, a new market, in the fly-fishing industry: tenkara (you may also call it "simpler fly-fishing", "mountain stream fly-fishing" and...
Talking of tenkara flies... Tenkara flies analyzed
Some people consider winter the fly-tying season, thus our recent posts on tenkara fly-tying. With the very large number of new tenkara adopters and readers of...
Tenkara fly-tying shot with macro lens
Today we have showing the simplicity of tenkara fly-tying. It was shot with a 100mm macro lens in real time, not edited, with the fly being...
Tenkara fly-tying, large sakasa kebari
Tenkara fly-tying, sakasa kebari Demonstration on how to tie a tenkara sakasa kebari (reverse-hackle tenkara fly). This fly is tied on a large, size 8 hook. It...
Tenkara rod, Iwana redesignFeedback from tenkara masters
While Tenkara USA is a fully independent company with no commercial ties with a Japanese company, we are very fortunate to have established very strong relationships...
Tenkara techniques: Part 3 (sinking your fly)
Think about the origins of tenkara and western fly-fishing. Tenkara was originated by commercial fishermen, whose livelihoods depended on very efficiently and cheaply catching fish. Instead...
Tenkara techniques: Part 2 (not swinging a fly)
Two of the main goals to fly-fishing technique are attracting a fish, and getting the fish to actually take the fly. Dr. Ishigaki and other anglers...
Tenkara techniques: Part 1 (drag-free drift)
A post on tenkara fishing techniques has been long overdue. I have written many times about how relying on technique instead of fly patterns and additional...
Sanpei cartoon, tenkara episodes
It's been a while since I have written anything on tenkara in this blog. To be honest, unless there is something I really feel like I...
Tenkara nets now available
I have said it before and will say it again, I have fallen in love with tenkara nets for stream fishing. After a lot of requests...
Tenkara featured in the New York Times!!!
A major milestone for tenkara in the US. Yesterday an article on tenkara was published in the New York Times! It is inevitable that after the...
Tenkara USA featured in Japanese magazine
This month Tenkara USA is being featured in the Japanese fly-fishing magazine, Fly Rodders. Fly Rodders is one of the leading magazines on fly-fishing in Japan....
Manzanita tenkara net
Today I completed my first own tenkara net. It's made of one manzanita branch, found after much looking and worked on for over a month. The...
Tenkara tamo, the experiment continued!
I have been having tons of fun searching for the appropriate branches and then embarking on the adventure of making my own tenkara tamo (tenkara nets)....
Tenkara for veterans
Fly-fishing is one of the most therapeutic activities around, and tenkara's simplicity perhaps even more so. Since the inception of Tenkara USA, we have been approached...
Tenkara USA's tweets of the week #9
A big tenkara WOW: Wow! Don't do this at home, really. #
Tenkara nets, an experiment in making one
I told you, I have fallen in love with the simple, organic elegance of tenkara nets. Though I have very little experience with wood work, I...
Tenkara flies analyzed by Fujioka-sensei
While we subscribe to the theory that fishing is extremely simple, and that a person can successfully fish with one fly pattern, whatever pattern they choose, we also...
Japanese fishing magazines
It had been quite a while since I was last excited about fishing magazines. With the exception of a couple of magazines' recent issues that brought...
Tenkara nets
I have absolutely fallen in love with Tenkara nets (tenkara tamo in Japanese). As I got to see many examples up close, and learn about how...
Tenkara bamboo rod
There is something to be said about using a natural material as a tool. Particularly if this is simply crafted. Particularly if the focus is not...
The Mamushi Kebari
Near Gujo, on our way up to the Itoshiro river, we stopped at a well known tackle shop run by Hirata-san. Hirata-san is known in the...
Flies? One fly is all you need
Despite the prolific hatches I witnessed while visiting the Itoshiro River in Japan - I saw large size 8 mayflies flying around every day, small caddis...
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