June 26, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Flies |
admin |
12
There are many variables that make an artificial fly attractive to fish: size, silhouette, movement, and color. Anyone who has seen a sakasa kebari underwater knows that...
June 16, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Technique, Tenkara Videos |
admin |
9
Margaret will have to forgive me for having fun with some video clips I captured on my iphone while we visited Colorado a couple of weeks ago. This video was too good not to...
June 4, 2012 |
Tenkara in the media |
admin |
0
Tom Brokaw and Yvon Chouinard talk about tenkara in current issue of Men’s Journal magazine. ...
April 20, 2012 |
About tenkara, Japan, Tenkara Culture, Tenkara Events, Tenkara history |
admin |
4
Quite sometime ago we talked about the beginnings of a fascinating film project, the Manzanar Fishing Club. This project documents the stories and history of Japanese and Japanese...
April 13, 2012 |
About tenkara, Tenkara history |
admin |
4
Following my post on the first record of tenkara by Sir Ernest Satow, I received a response from Kevin Kelleher, author of the book Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly...
March 16, 2012 |
About tenkara, Tenkara Community, Tenkara Events, Tenkara Technique |
admin |
3
This is Tenkara Week – Idaho. For quite sometime I have thought of coming to Idaho, it just never seemed to work out in the past. Then, recently a very dedicated tenkara...
March 15, 2012 |
About tenkara, Japan, Tenkara in the media, TENKARA+ |
admin |
0
It’s been a long time coming, and I have been anxiously waiting for these to come out. We finally received our copies of the latest issue of The Fly Fish Journal with my...
February 20, 2012 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Philosophy |
admin |
0
This article was originally written by Daniel Galhardo for Ryan Jordan, of Backpackinglight.com, with the theme “Pack Less Be More”: The More you Know the Less you...
December 28, 2011 |
Tenkara |
admin |
6
After 3 years in business we have decided it was time to come out of our shell a bit and get both our feet wet at the Fly Fishing Shows! Well, one foot wet first as we support our...
October 8, 2011 |
About tenkara, Tenkara International |
admin |
1
“OK, yep its real. my middle daughter designed it for my bday.” This was the response Brian Howerton gave me when I asked him about his tattoo. On his very first post...
February 25, 2011 |
About tenkara, Tenkara |
admin |
5
Very often people ask me what the name tenkara means. When someone familiar with Japanese reads the name in Roman characters (tenkara), and not in the katakana characters...
January 3, 2011 |
Tenkara |
admin |
6
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...
December 30, 2010 |
Tenkara, Tenkara Flies |
admin |
0
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 our blog since this...
April 8, 2010 |
Tenkara |
admin |
1
There are several theories regarding the origins of tenkara. It may have been imported from China, it may have passed through the lowlands in the hands of samurai and up to the...
January 6, 2010 |
Tenkara |
admin |
0
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 to be...
