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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The place where Eric Tofte is fishing is improbably beautiful. He's a half-mile or so up a North Shore stream, well up the shore from Duluth. It's a tiny stream, just a couple of feet wide in places, ...

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 ...

TV news anchors have nothing on fishermen when it comes to stretching the truth. More than 70 years ago, humorist Ed Zern observed, “Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.” And just last ...

PARSHALL — The fact that Daniel Galhardo has fly-fished for more than four years now without a reel, weighted fly line, leader, split shot or strike indicator is intriguing. The fact he has used only ...

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 fishing a ” fad” here in the U.S. And it’s ...