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December 12, 2013 |
Japan, Tenkara USA items |
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On a recent visit to Japan, I spent time with one of the longest-practicing tenkara anglers in the country, Mr. Yuzo Sebata. One of Mr. Sebata’s students had created a...
August 5, 2013 |
About Tenkara USA |
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Our logo is based on the first Japanese katakana character for “Tenkara”, which in Japanese is written: テンカラ or “Te n ka ra.” It was a nice...
July 17, 2012 |
About tenkara, Interviews |
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Written by Daniel In case you have sometime, I recently participated in a couple of great podcasts that you may want to checkout. A few weeks ago I went to Vermont and recorded a...
July 16, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Culture, Tenkara Flies |
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Written by Daniel Ishimaru Shotaro, an 89 year old tenkara angler in Japan, offered to give me some of his tenkara flies. He opened the box and out came an unexpected tenkara fly...
July 13, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Community, Tenkara Philosophy |
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Guest post by John Vetterli, of Tenkaraguides.com I don’t know how many of you have seen the short video Daniel made of my 6 year old son Jack practicing casting his 11’ Iwana...
July 12, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Flies |
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Written by Jason Where I grew up, knowing aquatic entomology was considered just as much of a necessary skill in fly fishing as casting. In fact, being able to identify...
July 11, 2012 |
About tenkara, Tenkara, Tenkara DIY, Tenkara Flies, Tenkara Videos |
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Written by Daniel Back in 2010 I wrote about the Mamushi-kebari, or “the snake-skin tenkara fly”. Mr. Hirata is the person who either invented it or at least...
July 10, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara industry, Tenkara USA items |
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Some very exciting news and a huge milestone for the introduction of tenkara outside of Japan: Orvis, the 156-year old fly-fishing company starts carrying our equipment today!...
July 10, 2012 |
Tenkara Rods |
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Written by Jason Anyone who has followed my writing probably already knows that my tenkara rod of choice is the Tenkara USA Ito. First and foremost, I love the action (I...
July 9, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Community, Tenkara Experiences, Tenkara Rods, Tenkara Technique, Tenkara Videos, TENKARA+ |
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Written by Daniel In his website Ryan Jordan says of tenkara, “If you think roping a bull in a cattle chute with a piece of dental floss sounds totally cool, then...
July 9, 2012 |
Tenkara Gear, Tenkara Rods |
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Written by Daniel & Jason The number one question we are asked by new tenkara anglers is, “which rod should I get?” It certainly can be confusing since tenkara rods...
July 8, 2012 |
Tenkara Community, Tenkara Experiences |
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I never thought I’d have a follow up to a post I did almost a year ago about someone who got so into tenkara that he got some ink on his arm, yes, a tattoo. But, here we are...
July 8, 2012 |
About tenkara, Interviews, Tenkara, Tenkara in the media |
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This Wednesday, July 11th at 7PM (Mountain Time), I will be answering questions about tenkara on the live internet radio show askaboutflyfishing.com. Please submit any...
July 8, 2012 |
How to tenkara, Tenkara, Tenkara Experiences, Tenkara Technique |
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Written by Daniel My wife and I were reviewing pictures from a recent fishing trip we took with two friends who are new to fly-fishing. I mentioned how it was funny that I...
July 4, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Flies, Tenkara Videos |
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Written by Jason Happy 4th of July! Here’s a simple pattern I’ve been using lately that I’ve been having a lot of success with. I normally fish thread-bodied...
