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You Know You’re a Tenkara Addict When…

June 18, 20117 CommentsHumorBy Jason Klass
Tenkara Addiction

 

You know you’re a Tenkara addict when…

 

  • You can name more species of trout in Japanese than you can in English
  • You wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after having nightmares about losing your rod’s plug
  • You feel personally insulted when someone refers to Tenkara as “dapping”
  • Your entire fly tying kit consists of only some hooks, black thread, and brown rooster hackle
  • Your index finger is permanently frozen in the extended position from using the traditional Tenkara grip
  • You consider a 10 ft. rod “a shorty”
  • You’re fluent in “Japanglish”
  • Ugly Geocities websites with broken links now seem normal to you
  • You bought the Japanese Rosetta Stone just so you could understand what length line they’re using in those Tenkara Youtube videos
  • You’ve completely forgotten what “backing” is for
  • You can attach a furled line to a lilian cord blindfolded after being spun around 6 times
  • Someone asks you if you reel right or left handed and you can’t remember
  • When people stare at you because you’re fishing without a reel, you think they’re the ones who are crazy

 

What are your symptoms?

 

About the author

Jason Klass

Jason is an avid fly angler and backpacker. As a former fly fishing guide originally from Western New York, he moved to Colorado and became an early adopter of tenkara which perfectly suited the small, high altitude streams and lakes there. He has not fished a Western-style fly rod for trout since.

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7 Comments
  1. Reply
    June 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm
    Anthony(CastingAround)

    “You feel personally insulted when someone refers to Tenkara as “dapping””

    Isn’t it dapping? or maybe cane-pole fishin’ like I used to do when I was a kid…?I hate when people think it’s like dapping$#!@!# That might be my number one pet peeve.

    • Reply
      June 20, 2011 at 4:13 pm
      Jason Klass

      LOL, me too!

  2. Reply
    July 1, 2011 at 3:33 pm
    Graham Moran

    When you are fishing with a 13′ Tenkara rod you can tell other fisherpersons on the river that your rod is bigger than theirs and it is true.

  3. Reply
    July 21, 2011 at 5:48 am
    TJ Ferreira

    When you start over saying Tenkara over and over any time you have a long stick in your hand.

  4. Reply
    February 9, 2012 at 10:56 am
    Morgan

    Well done Jason!

  5. Reply
    October 3, 2012 at 9:00 pm
    Rickles

    Man! I just want the basket full of rods.

  6. Reply
    October 3, 2012 at 9:00 pm
    Rickles

    Note: basket AND the rods 😉

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