The Tenkara Guide Network™ is a directory of tenkara guides and instructors who use tenkara as their preferred method of fishing. The intent of the network is to put our customers in touch with guides knowledgable and experienced in the tenkara. If you are a fly-fishing guide interested in joining the network, read this.
On the front range of Colorado, we are rich in smaller creeks and streams, which is a similar...
Dakota Angler & Outfitter has been offering tenkara focused fishing trips since 2014. We love sharing tenkara techniques with anglers new to the sport as well as...
Living Waters Fly Fishing is Round Rock’s only full service fly shop and was the first Tenkara USA dealer in Texas. In addition to waders, boots, packs, and fly tying...
RIGS was the first Tenkara USA dealer and Tenkara USA Certified Guide Service in Colorado. Our tenkara guides specialize in fishing the high country waters in...
Doug Heggart is an experienced fly-fishing guide based near Boulder, Colorado. He has extensive experience with tenkara, having fished with Daniel multiple times as well...
I’ve been fishing Tenkara for over six years, and enjoy sharing my passion for fly fishing with others. I’m lucky enough to call Central Montana home, where we...
Mike Warren is a tenkara guide in the Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin, and small streams of southern LaCrosse, northern Vernon and western Monroe counties....
Rory Glennie is a member of Fly Fishing Team Canada and has represented the country at two World Fly Fishing Championships; in North Wales, UK and in Jackson Hole,...
Michele is the owner of Tumbling Trout. She is a retired geologist and a published author (under the name Michele Murray). She’s been float fishing in a dory for...
Jeffry Gottfried, co-founder and executive director of non-profit, Educational Recreational Adventures has been fly fishing for 46 years and fishing primarily tenkara...
Eric is a ski guide turned fishing guide, and has lived in Vail for the past 25 years. He is passionate about sharing his local waters and teaching tenkara. When Eric is...
Mike has been fishing tenkara since 2013 and is a tenkara guide in northern California. Mike guides all over northern California including The American River and its...
Dan Pierce is the first registered Maine fishing guide to guide exclusively tenkara. He specializes in group and one on one instruction of tenkara techniques as well as...
Pat Jaeger has fished and explored the Eastern Sierra for over 30 years. He is part-owner of the Trout Fly in Mammoth Lakes and owner / operator of Eastern Sierra Guide...
Tim Hill is the owner and head guide at Colorado Fly Fishing Guides at the top of the Rockies in Leadville CO. He is a native of Colorado and has been in the Leadville...
One of the first tenkara guides in Maryland, Rob Lepczyk is a Certified Tenkara Guide and guides primarily on the Gunpowder Falls and its tributaries.Rob is a well-known...
Ryan Jordan was the first state-licensed tenkara guide in the western United States. Ryan is a licensed fly fishing guide in the State of Montana, and the only Montana...
John Miko is part of a growing number of tenkara guides North Carolina has available. He’s fallen in love with the fun and simplicity of tenkara style fly fishing...
Allen Seagraves has been an avid promoter of tenkara in the Boulder area of Colorado. He decided to become one of a growing number of tenkara guides in the state and has...
Rob Woodruff is one of the first tenkara guides in Southeastern Oklahoma and Northeast Texas. He has been an avid fly fisherman since the age of ten and began guiding...
Dave was stung with the Tenkara bug in 2009 and has enjoyed catching trout on his favorite Catskill trout streams ever since. Dave is a licensed NYS professional fishing...
Graham Moran has been fishing tenkara for almost five years and is a certified Tenkara Guide in Colorado. He started guiding for Colorado Skies Outfitters and now also...
Steve Conrad is part of a growing number of Certified Tenkara Guides, fly fishing guides who use tenkara as their preferred method of fishing. He guides in and around...
Chris Hendriks is one of the first international certified Tenkara Guides, and the main resource on tenkara in Norway. From Chris: My philosophy about Tenkara I want to...
Yvon Zill is one of the first tenkara guides in France is certified by Tenkara USA. He has been a very active tenkara instructor and guide in the Basque region. Since...
Vito Rubino is the first certified tenkara guide in Italy. He guides and holds events and clinics in many parts of Italy, but primarily in central/southern Italy, around...
Certified Tenkara Guide Jim Mitchell guides in the Hamilton area of Montana primarily on the Bitterroot river system. From Jim “I am a second generation outfitter...
Lance Milks is one of the first fly-fishing guides in the country to focus exclusively on tenkara guided trips. From Lance: “I have been practicing tenkara since...
Bob Ivins is a tenkara guide in North Carolina. “I come from thirty years of salt and fresh water fly fishing. Three years ago a client booked a trip for a couple...
As a Certified Tenkara USA Guide Phil Sheridan offers professional instruction, guiding, and presentations on all aspects of tenkara based in the heart of Yorkshire and...
Disclosures and Terms
While Tenkara USA will try to ensure only tenkara guides with credentials and the proper licenses, documentations and insurance are part of the network, we do not take responsibility for the services provided by the guides in the Tenkara Guide Network. Tenkara USA is not a guiding outfitter. Tenkara USA is not liable for the services provided by guides in the Tenkara Guide Network nor the Certified Tenkara Guides that are part of the network. The certification is simply our way to indicate the guide has a good understanding of traditional tenkara. It’s not our goal we do not endorse nor underwrite guides.The Tenkara Guide Network is a trademark by Tenkara USA. Tenkara USA reserves the right to refuse or recall participation in this directory at any time.
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