Welcome to the latest installment of the Sunday Morning Riffles. If you’re reading this, I assume your eyeballs survived the eclipse, and it’s a good thing they did. While I had a little trouble sourcing articles to link to this week, I sure found a lot of videos. From trout to tilapia, people are out and about bending those tenkara rods. Now would be a good time to start to scroll down, there’s a lot of fixed line content waiting for you today…
Tilapia on Tenkara
Ok warm water anglers, here’s one for you! Robbie lives in Tampa, ties flies, and catches some big tilapia out of a neighborhood pond. In this video he really leans into a few (honestly, I was waiting for his rod to snap), but is able to bring them up on the bank for a better look…
Amanda & Luong in Germany
Tenkara Angler’s own Amanda Hoffner has teamed up with Luong Tam of Tenkara Tanuki to spread some fixed line love to anglers in Europe at the Internationale Erlebniswelt Fliegenfischen. Luong has been posting many photos on his Facebook page over the past week. I assume there’s some presentations, I just see a lot of beer drinking…
Hello Friends…
Zane likes to do stuff, and in this video he takes the DRAGONtail FoxFIRE out for an on-stream gear review in a soggy, Georgia creek. He fishes each length of the rod until he catches a trout, to give the viewers a feel for the flex and bend of the FoxFIRE under stress…
Low Cost Tenkara Rod Discussion
As much as certain tenkara anglers love to talk about their high performance Japanese tenkara rods, there seems to be just as many people who want to get into the sport on the cheap. We feel neither is better than the other, enjoy tenkara however you’d like. And if you’d like to contribute to the “low cost” tenkara rod discussion on Reddit, give this link a click…
Paint Marker Mania!
If you haven’t read enough about Sakura Paint Markers recently, you can now watch how Brent Auger at DRAGONtail uses them to enhance his level line visibility by alternating sections of color. If you have trouble picking up your level line, you should at least give this video a watch…
Frost Ramblings
There something very soothing about watching the ramblings of Peter Frost. In this video, he took a tenkara rod out for the first time in 2024. Spoiler alert, no trout were caught, but it was a rather enjoyable wander through the woods alongside this stream nonetheless…
Tenkara Spring Has Finally Arrived!
Mr. Tenkara of Japan released a fishing trip video earlier this week that is very comprehensive (over a half hour in length) and full of fish catching with his Tenryu rod. This is the next best thing to getting out to a mountain stream. (Be sure to turn caption translation on to get the full scoop on the gear, the rigging, the flies, and the fishing techniques)…
Tenkara Angler Weekly Article Roundup
Three articles from Tenkara Angler this week…. On Monday, Dennis Vander Houwen contributed his latest Tenkara Lifestyles column on the need for and how to build local tenkara communities. On Wednesday, Mike gave an overview of Tenkara Rod Co.’s latest pocket rod Kickstarter. And on Friday, Tommaso Fedele wrote an interesting story about a love affair gone wrong with his tenkara rod. If you missed any of this week’s entries, today is an excellent opportunity to catch up…
We Can Build Strong Local Tenkara Communities
With risk of sounding like an old man… in the early days of American tenkara, 14-15 years ago… seeing other tenkara anglers…
The Tenkara Rod Co. Hafu Kickstarter is Here!
As mentioned in a recent Sunday Morning Riffles, Tenkara Rod Co. has released a new rod called the Hafu, a pocket-sized model…
She’s a Demon
Story by Tommaso Fedele I know, it’s not so interesting to start a story with apologies, but let it be clear that…
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