Eating Fish Shioyaki Style
by Daniel Galhardo I will occasionally eat fish when I’m out. Killing fish, and eating them seem to be a part of the human instinct. I’m a big believer that...
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Exploring Fall Tenkara Fishing in the Northern Rockies
Fall is a beautiful time of year in the northern Rockies, but for me, it’s always been a little overrated in terms of fishing. Yes, it can be a great...
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Tenkara Lifestyle: Lightweight Travel Tips
It has been some years now since I’ve learned about tenkara, an efficient form of mountain stream fishing. Through my experiences using this simple, old style of fishing, I have...
One simple way to finish tying a fly
In 2012, I filmed tenkara angler Hiroto Sasaki tying a fly in Tokyo, Japan. And, as it always happens when watching someone tying a fly, I learned a cool trick to finish...
Tenkara rod breakages
Since Tenkara USA was founded in 2009, we’ve heard a lot of different stories of rod breakage from our customers. Some of these are pretty obvious, some sneak up on...
Tenkara USA Sato
Tenkara was already getting established in the US for a couple of years, and by then I had heard the question: “what rod length should I get?” a few thousand...
Interview with Mike Willis
by Adam Trahan I asked Mike to sit for this Interview with me based on a small group of anglers that I have been following from afar in social media. Over...
Interview with Thomas "TJ" Ferreira
by Adam Trahan I already have meet TJ (online) from my own web site and Tenkara USA circles. He is a super nice guy and I want to start off by apologizing to...
Reflections on the 2017 Tenkara USA Summit
It has been more than a week now and I’ve had a chance to digest my experience at the Tenkara USA 2017 Summit. Meeting Daniel, Margaret and the rest of the...
Tenkara Summit 2017: Full presentation by Yvon Chouinard
On September 16th, 2017 over 300 people watch Mr. Yvon Chouinard talk about the threats facing our planet and more specifically our rivers. He argues that we “protect what we...
Tenkara Summit: Full presentation by Dr. Hisao Ishigaki
Here’s a recording of Dr. Hisao Ishigaki’s full presentation
2017 Tenkara Summit (report 1)
The biggest tenkara event – ever! – happened this weekend.The 2017 Tenkara Summit brought together the largest gathering of tenkara anglers anywhere. Just over 300 people from all over the...
R.I.P. Doug Heggart
It is with a very heavy heart that I must share that a great friend and positive influence in the tenkara community, Doug Heggart, has passed away.I am absolutely devastated...
Mushroom Walk (video)
This video has no fishing in it, at all.But I thought you would enjoy the video I just created. Yesterday morning, at the last day of our 3-week long book...
VanLife and Bass Fishing with tenkara
We have been on the road for 11 days now. Margaret and I have been enjoying our time together (we actually celebrated our 10th anniversary on the road last Sunday!)....
Tenkara USA hits the road
Yesterday part of the Tenkara USA team (myself, my wife and our husky Shiso) hit the road for the first leg of what I expect to be several road trips...
Tenkara Summit 2017
Things are coming together nicely for the 6th Tenkara Summit, which will take place in Estes Park on September 16th. This year we are counting on the presence of Dr....