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Colorado!

It is a beautiful place, forest, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and fishing, a long long heritage of fishing is in the mountains of Colorado.

The recent tenkara summit has me thinking of the fly fishing meetings that I have attended in Colorado. Not to just fish, but to share in the making techniques of fishing rods and other fine crafts that surround fly fishing. You have the chance to rub elbows with some of your friends, makers, you get to cast their rods and learn.



There is the meeting tent where we all gather to share ...

By Eiji Yamakawa

Many tenkara fishers seem to have trouble getting their ideal line.

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Recently, I had a chance to acquire a NISSIN Fuji Flow. I wasn’t confident the deal would pan out but went ...

Interview with Eiji Yamakawa



Adam: Eddie, I understand that you live in the area of Yoshikazu Fujioka, in a suburb near Osaka and Kyoto. Over the years, I have read Yoshikauzu’s writing about “the Mountain Village” Can you tell me a little bit about this mountain village?

Eddie: You are talking about Shirakawa-go village, are you? That village is just next to Takayama City, which you know in “Takayama Sakasa Kebari”. It is one of the world heritages in Japan and famous for its traditional style thatch-roofed folk houses. I visited there 15 years ago for the first time, and I keep visiting there once in a while.

You cannot understand this, but tenkara is not so popular in Japan. You seldom see a tenkara fisher in my neighbor areas, but you ...

by Terry Stoddard

To start, tie on your thread at the eye and wrap it back about two thirds the way down the shank. Now bring the thread up to about the halfway point of the hook and start building a tapered head from there to the eye. You only want to build the head up about half as thick ...

American Designed Tenkara Net

Sam Lacina: Net Maker

I meet Sam by researching online for a quality net maker. Running a Internet search, I happened upon Sam’s web site (flyfishingnets.net) that described the crafting of a net. The small stream nets had my interest and the round “Friar’s Frying Pan” style looked like something that ...

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西日本の山釣
Mountain Fishing in Western Japan by Soseki Yamamoto

Published in 1973 ...

I have always wanted one of these (for many years) since I started researching the different strains, the different types of trout and char, it is a Release Box for fish ID and photography.


My interest leads ...

Adam: I would like to start this interview with a thank you. Tom Smithwick suggested that I visit TenkaraUSA.com when he was reading about my wanting to build a split cane rod to emulate the “cane pole” that I fished as a young child. I had written about my adventures as an adult fishing the farm ponds back in Tennessee and I wanted to make a pole just for fishing that style. When I visited TenkaraUSA.com my prayers were some how answered even more than I asked for. I could fish a “pole” ...