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Tenkara USA

Jan242012

Jason Klass Tenkara Fishing on the San Juan

Basic Tenkara Casting Motion

Here’s another quick video clip from the Denver Fly Fishing Show of Daniel Galhardo breaking down the basic tenkara casting stroke. Sorry for the bad audio.  It’s hard to get good sound at a trade show without a lapel mic. Plus, the lighting at the show was horrible. While the quality might not be great,…

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Jan232012

Tenkara Simplicity

Tenkara: Diversity in Simplicity

This weekend, I sat in in a cabin next to a wood burning stove with the Arkansas River not 20 yards away from me.  I brought my Yamame and Ito hoping to get some fishing in but it was not meant to be.  The winds howled, rattling the wood stove chimney and everything else in…

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12 CommentsPhilosophy
Jan182012

Red Tenkara Line

Red Fluorocarbon from Japan

[/caption] I came home from work today to find a nice package from Japan in the mailbox waiting for me.  Red fluorocarbon! I’ve been talking to a company there about getting some bulk hi-vis level line and they were gracious enough to send me some sample line.  Here’s what it looks like and my initial…

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Jan172012

Tenkara Gear Addiction

Is Being a Tenkara Gear Junkie Hypocritical?

I’ve never seen any discussion of tenkara where the word “simplicity” didn’t come up at least a few times. It’s true that simplicity is an easily identifiable attribute of tenkara but this seems to put gear addicts like me in an interesting dilema. Is our love of gear antithetical to the intrinsic nature of tenkara?…

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19 CommentsPhilosophy
Jan142012

Claret-Sakasa-Kebari

Claret & Gold Sakasa Kebari

  I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the materials I use to tie my tenkara flies and realized that I’ve been doing a bad job of posting them. So, from now on, I am going to try to post the complete recipe for all the flies I post in the future.  Here’s the…

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10 CommentsFlies, Fly Tying
Jan122012

Tenkara-Rod-Action

Tenkara Rod Action

[/caption] One of the questions people seem to struggle with most is which tenkara rod to choose.  After all, there are a variety of different lengths and actions.  And since (on paper at least) some of them seem very similar, making the decision can be even more confusing. I happen to own the entire Tenkara…

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19 CommentsTenkara 101
Jan102012

Brown Trout - San Juan River

How to Land a Fish with Tenkara

I got a lot of footage of the Tenkara USA demo at this year’s fly fishing show and thought I would break it up into shorter, more digestible videos on specific topics rather than post it in its entirety.   In this video, Daniel shows us how to land a fish with tenkara–with a special focus on using…

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Jan92012

My Tenkara Car Kit

A Tenkara Car Kit

After a recent discussion with Karel from Tenkara on the Fly, I finally decided to sit down and do something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time:  put together a tenkara kit to leave in my car for when those unexpected fishing opportunities present themselves. The conversation went something like this… We were…

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17 CommentsPacks, Organization & Storage
Jan82012

Sakasa Kebari on Allen Fly Fishing Octopus Hook

Allen Fly Fishing Octopus Hooks

[/caption] Even though I already posted about my general experience at this year’s Denver Fly Fishing Show, I left a lot of loose ends.  So, over the course of the next couple weeks, I will probably have a few posts here and there telling you about some of the gems I found there. One such gem…

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11 CommentsFly Tying
Jan72012

Denver Fly Fishing Show 2012

Denver Fly Fishing Show 2012

[/caption] I just got back from the Denver Fly Fishing show where Tenkara USA made its first official presentation.  I usually go to the show every year and it’s pretty much the same old stuff so I was really excited to see people learning and talking about tenkara this year!   Tenkara   Rigs Fly…

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Jan52012

Tenkara USA Ito on the San Juan

Long Line Trick with the Ito

For those of you who own the Tenkara USA Ito (or any tenkara zoom rod for that matter) here’s an interesting trick that can come in handy if you’re fishing longer lines. Many of you probably read Daniel Galhardo’s recent article on fishing long lines for tenkara.  One thing you have to keep in mind…

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10 CommentsPresentation Techniques
Jan12012

Tenkara USA 3rd Generation Furled Tenkara Lines

Tenkara USA 3rd Generation Traditional Line

  Tenkara USA has just updated their traditional furled tenkara lines and I recently got mine and had a chance to do some test casting with my 13 footer.  Here are my thoughts comparing it to the 1st generation monofilament lines and 2nd generation spectra lines. The 2nd generation Kevlar lines were an improvement over…

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Jason Klass is a former fly fishing guide & casting instructor based in Colorado. He was an early adopter of tenkara in the West and has been fishing the method for a variety of species since 2009. Read more >>

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