I recently came across this website called BackpackFlyfishing.com. BackbackFlyfishing is the brainchild of Jason Klass and if you are a backpacker and a Tenkara fly fisher, you need to check it out. There’s a blog, forums and a gear shop focused on Tenkara.
In a recent blog post Jason presents a simple solution for the problem of Tenkara line management. When moving along the stream, it is often difficult to handle a 12-ft Tenkara rod in and among the trees and brush. The solution is to collapse the rod, but then you need to deal with the line.
Check out Jason’s solution: Tenkara Line Management from the backpackflyfishing.com Blog
Hi Anthony,
Great blog and thanks for the mention. I’d like to get your feedback on this Trico fly I came up with called the “Traffic Jam”: http://backpackflyfishing.com/blog/2010/06/06/the-traffic-jam-trico-cluster/
Please let me know what you think. -Jason
Jason,
That “Traffic-Jam” trico is a wild looking fly. A very innovative tie. Sometimes it’s easy to think that everything’s been done already in fly tying – but this is a new approach.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get to any tricos this summer – but I’ll surely be fishing over midges. I’ll have to tie up some midge “traffic-jams”, maybe with black bodies or maybe an all cream version. I seem to run into hatches of cream midges pretty often.
I’ll let you know how it works out. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Anthony. I will be selling them on my site soon. Maybe I will offer some black ones as well for midges. You can also color in the trico one with a black marker if you want.