When you're on a road trip, you don't always have room to pack your traditional fishing gear, or you might drive past a beautiful stretch of water that looks perfect for a cast. That’s where a tenkara ...

Tenkara is a Japanese fly fishing that strips things down to their most simple. One fly. One rod. Sam Vanderbeek uses a Tenkara rod while fly-fishing in the Oregon coast range. All responsibility lies ...

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In a sport as resistant to change as fly-fishing, tenkara is a revolution. Actually a counterrevolution, since its stripped-down, minimalist aesthetic harks back to the earliest days of angling with ...

Everything about Tenkara fishing says “small” — a skinny pole with a short line to seek pan-sized fish in tiny creeks. So naturally, when Missoula resident Pat Ortmeyer tied into a 14-inch rainbow ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EAGLE — It has been 2 1/2 years now since legendary fly-caster and prominent fly-fishing authority Lefty Kreh declared the ancient Japanese method of tenkara ...

View post: Kia Reveals Why The New Telluride Didn’t Get A V6 Tenkara is a centuries-old Japanese style of fly fishing rooted in simplicity: Forget a reel — all you need is a rod, a line, and a fly.

An ancient Japanese fishing technique — tenkara — is becoming increasingly popular in the back country of the United States. Tenkara, which means heaven or from the skies in Japanese, originated with ...

Rob Lepczyk hadn’t been in the Gunpowder River for more than five minutes on a late September morning before he felt a tug on his line. The 26-year-old Sparks resident yanked at the long rod before ...

As entrancing and addictive as the sport of fly fishing can be, the very idea of it has the opposite effect on some people, who feel it’s too complicated, too technical and too difficult. Anyone ...

Tenkara Fishing in the Eastern Sierras The setup of a tenkara rod is minimal. Attach your preferred tippet to the rod, add a short leader, tie on a fly, and you are ready to go. Casting is simple, too ...