Tenkara fly

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Tenkara fly fishing is a minimalist type of fly fishing used for mountain stream trout fishing. With

A small portable and compact Japanese Tenkara Rod has been launched via Kickstarter this month in the form of the Yari. Offering a simplified flyfishing

While I tend to prefer dry flies and don't fish sinking flies much, I thought it would be fun to start experimenting with some reverse hackle Tenkara wet flies. When I do fish wet flies, I usually want them to sink fast. So, I'm playing around with some different ideas for Tenkara-style flies that use

Sakasa Kebari Tenkara Fly

Here's an interesting material with some unique properties to make your own specialty tenkara lines.

Shintaro-san tenkara fishing

I used this fly extensively on my successful quest to catch fish in small mountain streams in each of Utah's 29 counties, making it truly live up to its name. Note that I call this fly the Modified Utah Killer Kebari. It is based on the Utah Killer Kebari, which itself is based on the Utah Killer Bug. I consider the

In this video, we see one way to tie the tenkara stiff hackle kebari

These are easy-to-tie flies that are effective, durable, and cost next to nothing to make.

In this video, I compare western fly casting vs. tenkara and talk about why tenkara is ultimately more efficient.

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One more swap, one more fly. This fly is for the 2nd Tenkara Fisher Fly Swap . I thought I would try to tie a Takayama Sakasa Kebari, which...

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One of the questions I get asked most often is what one needs to start tying tenkara flies. The first thing I tell people is to NOT buy a fly tying kit. Kits are a perfect waste of money with just the right combination of wrong-sized feathers, useless colors of materials, and unnecessary tools. While

I first heard about zenmai a few years ago in a blog post from Tenkara USA. What is zenmai? It's a fuzzy fiber that grows on sprouting fern plants in the spring and Japanese anglers use it as dubbing material. It might seem strange to use vegetation as a tying material, but it actually makes quite

This is one of the most difficult concepts to embrace in tenkara, but in my view the most liberating. What I am talking about is the idea of using [any] one fly pattern in pursuit of trout in mountain streams.

Editor’s Note: As relative newcomers to the tenkara scene, many of us Westerners (with the aid of the internet) have developed certain ideas about tenkara and how it is practiced in Japan. In the Summer 2016 issue of Tenkara Angler, John Vetterli of Tenkara Guides, LLC set out to separate fact from fiction, as well as provide some insight […]