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...
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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 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...
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...
American Angler asks
I feel a little out-of-character asking for such a thing, but after reading the call for submissions from American Angler magazine I felt I needed to...
Ten reasons to Tenkara
1. Fly-fishing Simplicity. Using the fewest elements necessary to achieve what is desired and having few elements to worry about or to distract one from the...
"The New Period": fly fishing simplicity
One of the main reasons most anglers are attracted to tenkara fly-fishing - whether a tenkara veteran such as Dr. Ishigaki, or any of the recent...
World's tenkara authority in the Catskills
This weekend, the world’s foremost authority on tenkara fishing, Dr. Hisao Ishigaki, came to the Catskills and gave a fascinating presentation at the Catskills Fly-Fishing Center...
Tenkara U.S. fly-fishing
Tenkara was recently featured in Midcurrent as leading fly-fishing online resource.In the article, the author poses the question of whether tenkara "has a chance of revolutionizing...
Fishing with Cork Graham
Yesterday, Tenkara USA went tenkara fishing with outdoor columnist and outdoor show host Cork Graham. Cork is the author of best selling book The Bamboo Chest,...
Field & Stream
The tenkara community is growing fast. Several people have already started enjoying fishing small streams with this simple method of fly-fishing.Today tenkara and Tenkara USA were...
Fly-fishing simplicity
An article recently published by Mr. Gordon Wickstrom, "Grave and great: Fly fishing for our time" deeply resonated with what I have always been seeking in...
Environmental conservation
Tenkara USA is devoted to the environment and commited to the planet through the 1% For the Planet network. We will donate at least 1% of...
Spey and Tenkara
This weekend Tenkara USA was present at the Spey-O-Rama event at the pools of the Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club. The event attracted a large...
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