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...
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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...
Tenkara Podcast Daniel Galhardo and Jason Klass talk tenkara
This morning someone at the Tenkara Anglers Facebook Group suggested that Jason Klass of Tenkaratalk.com and I do a podcast together. Brilliant idea. Everytime I talk to Jason on the...
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...
One Tenkara Fly - A personal choice
If you’re like most fly anglers, you like flies. Small and large, dull and shiny, reversed or “normal”. As we have introduced tenkara outside of Japan,...
Tenkara Fly Tying with Loften Deprez
This weekend Tenkara USA is attending the Winston-Salem Fly Fishing Show in North Carolina. Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Loften Deprez, someone who has...
NEW ROD: Ayu Series II
Most of our products go through minor iterations and revisions on a regular basis. We follow the Japanese philosophy of kaizen, or continuous improvement, and are constantly...
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 Guides Tenkara Fly Tying Video
The Tenkara Guides of Utah put together this really cool fly-tying video below. I love their use of multiple cameras and embedded picture-in-picture editing. Check it...
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...
Use your tenkara rod as a practice fly rod
It has always struck me as a bit funny to have mini rods made for the purpose of practicing casting (although I recognize it strikes a...
Talking of simplicity
Lance Gurney, a loyal Tenkara USA customer, volunteered at our booth this weekend at the Somerset Fly Fishing Show. He took the long drive from Maine...
What folks are saying about tenkara (VIDEO)
Today I have been asking people what they think about tenkara.Here are a few people we met today and their thoughts about this simple way of...
Somerset Fly Fishing Show
The biggest flyfishing show of the season just started. The Tenkara USA spaceship is up. And the crew is pumped for 3 days of spreading tge...
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...
Another Tenkara angler’s
We receive a lot of good emails from clients, but have always kept them to ourselves. Yesterday I set up the precedent of asking for permission...
Email: A new tenkara angler's email to us
This weekend Tenkara USA participated at the Marlborough Fly Fishing Show in MA. I got to meet some great folks and the interest in tenkara was...
Baby Name: Tenkara
No, Margaret and I are not about to have a baby. And, no, we’re not talking about baby names yet either. Jason Klass of TenkaraTalk.com just shared this post...
[VIDEO] Tenkara Syndicate Water in the UK
John Pearson and Paul Gaskell just shared the beautiful short video below with us, which they say gives us a "flavour of the UK's first dedicated...
Using All Your Senses
Written by TJDuring my lunch time I enjoy watching fly fishing shows that I have recorded on my DVR. One of those shows is Fly Rod...
25 seconds at the Tenkara USA booth
The last four days that the ISE show in Sacramento were BUSY! It really felt like this pretty much the whole time at the ISE Show...
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