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Tenkara Fishing Tips

Tenkara Press

Quick Facts

Quick Facts

tenkara The Book Now in its third printing!   - Website launch date: April 12, 2009 - Based in Boulder, Colorado (started in San Francisco, moved to Boulder in 2012)...

Looking back at 10 years of Tenkara

Looking back at 10 years of Tenkara

Today we celebrate 10 years of building Tenkara USA and sharing tenkara outside of Japan. It is an incredible milestone, and this journey has been filled with incredible experiences, milestones...

SGB Media interview

SGB Media interview

Teresa Hartford at SGB Media, the main outdoor industry publication, spoke with Tenkara USA founder, Daniel Galhardo, about tenkara, its introduction to the US and the experience of people getting...

Peak Gear Award -  Sato Kit

Peak Gear Award - Sato Kit

From Elevation Outdoors:Why It Won: Tenkara makes fly fishing a new experience for anyone who tries it. The cast is simple to learn (and some longtime fly anglers on staff...

Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Sun

Read story here “Forget about ‘Western’ fly-fishing rods. The new rage around the area is tenkara fishing.” “The most significant advantage of tenkara style is no drag on your fly,”...

Men's Journal Gear

Men's Journal Gear

“While tenkara is great for fly-fishing beginners, it can be a revelation for the enthusiast and an opportunity to get away from the overpacking ways that’s popular in the Western style of the sport.”...

Kudo Award - Fly Rod and Reel magazine

Kudo Award - Fly Rod and Reel magazine

The Tenkara USA Rhodo, an adjustable tenkara rod we released earlier this year, just received the “Kudo Award” from renowned author and tenkara angler Dave Hughes and Fly Rod & Reel...

Denver Post, June 8th 2014

Denver Post, June 8th 2014

Tenkara “fad” hitting its stride in Colorado’s high-country streams, writes Scott Willoughby on his second piece for the Denver Post.

Ask About Fly Fishing.com

Ask About Fly Fishing.com

On June 4th Daniel participated the internet radio show Askaboutflyfishing.com. Roger Maves and I talked about “Tenkara’s Evolution”. We started talking about the basics of what tenkara is, then moved on...

Blue Ridge Outdoors: Tenkanyoneering

Blue Ridge Outdoors: Tenkanyoneering

A fantastic piece by Graham Averill on a tenkara plus canyoneering trip out in North Carolina. “And thanks to the streamlined gear and telescoping rods, tenkara also pairs well with...

Boulder Weekly

Boulder Weekly

Boulder Weekly, our home newspaper, covered tenkara on May 1st, 2014 as tenkara takes Boulder by a storm. The Tenkara Girls group is also featured in a photograph.

High Country News / Adventure Journal

High Country News / Adventure Journal

Tienlon Ho writes about the story of Daniel Galhardo taking her niece tenkara fishing in the Sierra Nevada of California. "The basic tenkara cast looks a lot like a Western...