Win a Free Fly Box!
UPDATE: Loften wins it by a landslide! Congratulations Loften! The box is on the way.
Didn’t win anything in the last tenkara gear giveaway? No problem. Here’s another one. This time, I’m giving away a brand new Streamworks fly box with a multi-tool. From their website:
“The StreamWorks® Small Fly Box with Threader is a virtually indestructible fly box that will not crack or yellow. It is ergonomically designed for style and function and fits comfortably in your hand or any pocket. Included in the hinged cradle of the fly box is a handy tool that threads tippet through the hook eye and/or removes glue from the eye of the fly.”
Here’s the box open showing the ripple foam:
This is actually a pretty cool fly box that would be good for carrying a minimal tenkara selection. Here’s a terrible video of it in action:
To enter the contest, all you have to do is reply to this post on the TENKARA TALK BLOG (not Twitter, not Facebook, and not Google +) and answer the following question:
How many different species of fish have you caught on a tenkara rod?
You need to list them out of course and be honest! Whoever has the longest list wins. In the event of a tie, the person who posted first wins. Deadline is midnight on Friday, January 27th MST.
As always, this contest is open to people outside of the U.S. (I appreciate my international audience too!).
Good luck and I’m looking forward to seeing all the different types of fish you’ve caught with tenkara!
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Jason Klass is a former fly fishing guide who now exclusively fishes Tenkara for trout in the streams and lakes of Colorado...Read More
I have caught the fallowing on an Ito:
5 rainbows biggest 19″
9 bronwns biggest 17″
3 brookies biggest 11″
Thanks Shawn, the size of the fish you’ve landed on tenkara rods is impressive but for this contest, we’re only looking for the number of different species, not number or size of individual fish. So, for example, I’ll give my horribly limited species list:
-Brook Trout
-Rainbow Trout
-Greenback Cutthroat
-Brown Trout
Yep, that’s it for me on tenkara. I’m sure most of you out there will beat me by a single bluegill or something. But’s that’s OK because I’m not eligible for my own contest!
I apologies I have caught
Brown trout
Rainbow trout
Brook trout
Cutthroat trout
Shawn, no worries. Sorry, I think I didn’t explain well enough. You’re list is the same as mine!
Just one species…Rainbow. I am new at this but hope to improve that number this year around the Four Corners.
Rainbow Trout
Brook Trout
Cutthroat Trout
Bluegill
Largemouth Bass (small dinks hanging out with the bluegills but hey, it’s a species!)
Hawaiian Lizardfish (‘Ulae)
Also, I hooked into something big and silver on the McKenzie that popped my tippet. I guess that doesn’t count because I didn’t land and identify it.
That box is pretty cool! Here’s my list…
1. Brook Trout
2. Rainbow Trout
3. Brown Trout
4. Bluegill
5. Pumpkinseed sunfish
6. Smallmouth Bass
7. Largemouth Bass
8. Yellow Perch
9. American Shad
10. Bluefish (snapper size) (saltwater)
Just one, so far, Brownie!
Rainbow Trout
Brown trout
Freshwater Drum(Sheephead or Shithead)
Rainbow trout
Brown trout
CO Cutthroat trout
Brook trout
Smallmouth bass
Largemouth bass
Red rockfish (salt)
Corbina
Surf Perch
Sunfish (I think it was a green, but who knows)
Bluegill
I just got my tenkara rod, and I have not caught a single fish. Of course, I’ve only “played” with it in a fishless stream (lots of those in Texas due to last summer’s drought), so what do you expect.
Think I’ll win the box?
I’ll never catch Kiwi. Brown, brookie, rainbow, largemouth bass, yellow perch, snapper blue, sunfish
I am the proud predator of the not-so-elusive zipfish.
I have relentlessly stalked it from the confines of my garage in western Washington. When my gaze shifts from the rain, sleet, snow or ever-present haze beyond the window, my eyes sometimes come to rest on my idle Amago.
It is a lovely thing, from Tenkara USA, with lines and flies from Tenkara Bum, but has yet to be christened with the tug and tussle of any actual fish.
So, zero effort = zip fish = 100% success!
Thus, my dry flies are are perfectly dry, but why take a chance? I should have a box to keep them safe.
I might even go east of the mountains on yet another invitation from a fly-fishing friend to fish the Yakima River. I will fish up-river from him, so when I drop the box in the stream he can catch it. It will give him a chance to validate the cost of his net, him being a steelhead fisherman, which I gather is about as productive a pursuit as sitting in my garage and thinking about going fishing.
I forgot to mention all the different species of stick, tree, shrub and grass fish I consistently catch on a regular basis. Best thing about those is the season. It’s always open.
I fish mostly in warmwater and the closest river to me has had 100 species of fish seen in it, but I’m still around 30 on conventional gear. Here is what I have caught on tenkara:
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1. cutthrout trout
2. rainbow trout
3. brook trout
4. largemouth bass
5. smallmouth bass
6. redeye bass
7. white bass
8. roanoke bass
9. rock bass
10. bluegill
11. red breast sunfish
12. green sunfish
13. crappie
14. pumpkin seed
15. white perch
16. yellow perch.
15 grass carp (a very little one when fishing for bluegill)
16. chain pickerel (a small one caught last weekend. i think i may be the only person to put bite tippet on a tenkara rod
17. channel catfish
18. creek chub
19 warmouth
20. horny head sucker
21. warpaint shinner
Brown trout
Bluegill
Largemouth bass
Creek chub
Sunfish (although that’s pretty much the same as bluegill)
Bullhead
Perch
Rainbow Trout
Cuttbow Trout
Brown Trout
Cutthroat Trout
Brook Trout
White Sucker (didn’t try…it just happened!)
WOW! Impressive list Loften! Looks like so far you’re in the lead!
LOL Allan! Don’t forget species of sea weed, algae, etc.
bluegill
smallmouth bass
largemouth bass
green sunfish
creek chub
crappie
Dagnabbit,
Impressive species list. Shows the versatility of Tenkara and skills of those posted. I have one more species on my list and it is a Golden Trout at 11,200′ then I will be happy.
OK loften, are warmouth and horny head sucker really fish, or are you just including your fishing buddies’ nicknames to run up the score?
warmouth are a common kind of panfish around here. You can find them all over the east and they are native to the Mississippi river drainage. Horny Head suckers are native to the north carolina mountains and have little spikes on their head which is where they get their name.
Bluegill
Brookie
If I caught any other warm water species I wouldn’t know what it was other than some kind of fish. Nor do I really care,; unless it’s a carp-then I’m just cutting the tippet ’cause I don’t want to touch it
(apologies to the carp aficionados out there)