Tenkara curious? It’s OK. Many traditional fly fishers are simplifying their angling and choosing the simple options that tenkara offers. Fishing with only a rod, a line, and a fly has its appeal. And ...

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 ...

Everybody is in search of some simplicity in life, but perhaps nobody searches harder for it than the fly fisherman. So it’s no small wonder why tenkara, the most simplistic form of fly-fishing, has ...

As the rest of us roll back and forth this month and next over mountain passes in our heavy duty pickups, coming and going from various fall hunts, fishing trips and excursions to passion, Jeffry ...

Tenkara rods are a modern take on a traditional form of Japanese fly fishing. The entire system consists of a long rod, a leader, tippet, and a fly. In many aspects, it embodies the purest form of ...