My new "One Knot": Double-loop slip knot Tippet to fly
After 2 decades of using an improved clinch to tie my fly to tippet, I decided to give a new knot a real try. This knot was taught...
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Took our limit today
Just returned from a good fishing trip with Denver Dobbins, Karel Lansky and Graham Moran. A terrific day on the water. We took home our limit,...
The Last Commercial Tenkara Angler - Bunpei Sonehara
For quite sometime I have known about the story of Mr. Bunpei Sonehara, who is largely considered to have been the last commercial tenkara angler in...
Tenkara flies map
I’ve been working on a project that will take me a while to complete, I actually started it almost two years ago, inspired by My Best...
Tenkara angler experience: 6lb Bass on Tenkara USA rod
Maybe we should start featuring more of the images our customers share with us in their experiences with tenkara. The one that Larry Yien, the legendary archer,...
Tenkara Video Contest Submission
Ashton Chatelain of “Hints of Emergence Tenkara has submitted a good entry to the Tenkara Summit Video Contest. Sure, it is taking a slight jab at the pointless...
Luke Uyeda, Product Designer Newest addition to the Tenkara USA team
(Daniel): Tenkara USA is entering a new era. From the beginning I feel the company has followed the intended vision for its timeline. On our first...
Yesterday's tenkara photos
It snowed almost 10 inches here overnight and the snow continues to fall. As I shoveled the driveway, my next-door neighbor asked me “how do you...
"Dream Homework"
Yesterday I took 10-year old Sofi tenkara fishing for her first time. She emailed me last week to ask if I could teach her tenkara for...
Read Tenkara Article in the Big Sky Journal
The Big Sky Journal is featuring a nice story on tenkara this month, written by Chad Hanson. You can read the article in its entirety on their website Tenkara Article...
My office is in a stream
This week we’re holding our first company retreat. The Tenkara USA team is mostly virtual and we don’t always get to see each other and talk...
Tying Tenkara Flies II, in progress
Had a terrific evening of tying tenkara flies and talking about them with Gordon Wickstrom at the Tenkara USA headquarters. This is the beginning of working on Volume...
Trip Report: The Accidental Discovery of a Technique
With the end of the Fly Fishing Show season I finally feel that I can enjoy my new home and the new homewaters that surround it....
Sport Fishing Sustainability in Japan
Two years ago I spent 2 months in the small mountain village of Maze, Japan. I was seeking to learn all I could about tenkara in...
"I Am Kebari" - I Am Fly
by TJ FerreiraPhew! What a great couple of months! The experience at all of the fly fishing shows these last couple of months left me thinking...
Tenkara is the Unicorn of Fly Fishing
Thanks to Mike from Troutrageous, the “The Secret To Tenkara’s Fish Catching Superiority” has not been a secret for about a year. He spilled the beans on the...
The More You Know ... The Less You Need
If you know fish will take your dry fly, even if it is wet and under, or… If you know you can false-cast your fly to...
Tenkara Tattoo 4: Adam Trahan
Adam Trahan “Tenkara-Fisher” decided to join the brotherhood of inked tenkara anglers this week with a beautiful tenkara sakasa kebari on his forearm. I feel honored...
The Art of NOT False Casting
by TJ FerreiraFalse casting has a certain romantic magic about it when it is done out on a river. Enough romance with false casting that it...
Simplicity is Sacred
As a good follow up to the post I wrote yesterday, the Denver Post is featuring a story on tenkara in today’s paper. It is a...
New Tenkara License Plate in Virginia
You may have seen the tenkara license plates (one more here) that have sprung up around the country. One more plate has now appeared in Virginia, courtesy of...
Tenkara Tattoo 3: The moving tenkara fly by TUSA founder
For the last 14 years, just about half of my life, I have thought of getting a tattoo. I know it is a permanent thing, so...
A Story of Discovering
Everyone has his or her own story of how they got into fly-fishing, and then how they discovered tenkara. Earlier last year Karel Lansky ran a contest...
Ice Shelf - Winter Fishing with Tenkara
Fish seek two things in particular: food and shelter. Both of these elements change in the winter, food becomes more scarce, and in many parts of...
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