Casting Around

Nissin Pro-Spec 6:4 2-way Tenkara Rod

Anthony Naples — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:59:27 +0000

Earlier this season I had a chance to try out the Nissin Pro-Spec 2-way 6:4 Tenkara rod. It’s a zoom rod that goes from 10’3″ to 11’9″. And to cut to the chase, I liked it so much I just had to buy it (at TenkaraBum)

Being a short zoom makes it a unique tenkara rod [...]

Poem: Folded Fishing

Anthony Naples — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:51:22 +0000

Folded Fishing My fishing was folded, a complicated origami protein. I found it in a pocket and unfolded it until a stream (it still had creases) was wriggling in my hand. It was fragile and dog-eared, but was beyond all hope still alive.

Making a hand furled tenkara line (or fly fishing leader)

Anthony Naples — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:00:17 +0000

I’ve been making hand-furled leaders since before I started tenkara fishing. When I started tenkara fishing I started making tenkara lines the same way. I’ve been thinking about making a video of the method but then I came across a video on youtube by Douglas Cameron Hall of the blog The Trout Fly. I figure [...]

One-Fly Season Day 3 and Day 4: April 9 and April 17, 2013

Anthony Naples — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:39:08 +0000

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for…”

John Milton, Areopagitica

Day 3: April 9, 2013:

- For some explanation of my One-fly Season and results of Day [...]

The Wintertime Blues Project

Anthony Naples — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:29:09 +0000

So it has been a while since I put this collaborative project into motion – but it is done. It is the Wintertime Blues. I won’t say too much about it you can read all about it in the thing itself…painting, poetry, essays, photography, comedy, drama and etc. and sundry….

Closer to the Ground, by Dylan Tomine 2012, Patagonia Books

I’d like to preface this write-up by saying that there’s no accounting for taste. I always get a little nervous doing a book “review” because I feel this pressure to say whether it was “good” or “bad” or something else. Well – don’t expect that [...]

One Fly to Rule Them All or 2013: My One-Fly Year plus some musing, oh and some fishing…

Anthony Naples — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:15:34 +0000

My “One-Fly” – Brown Hackle Peacock

If you have paid any attention to any tenkara discussions you have probably noticed the idea of “one-fly” coming up. Very simply put the idea of “one-fly” fishing is to use basically one fly pattern for all of your fishing – no hatch matching, no changing flies [...]

Three Rivers – A life in water

Anthony Naples — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:10:06 +0000

I came across this three part poem that I wrote a while back but never got to use for anything. So I figured might as well set it adrift on the river of the interwebs.

Three Rivers – A life in water

1. Standing on a bridge looking out over an even muddy sheet of blown-out river, muddy and swollen, [...]

2013 Tenkara USA Summit Registration Now Open

Anthony Naples — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:30:49 +0000

artwork by Anthony Naples

Hey ALL – sign up for the Tenkara USA Summit 2013! The Tenkara Summit 2013, hosted by Tenkara USA and Mossy Creek Fly Fishing will take place in Harrisonburg, VA on May 11 and 12, 2013. For more info and to register go HERE I’ll be there – hope to see you!

The Secrets to Successful Fly Fishing (and Tenkara) for the Beginner: Part 1

Anthony Naples — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:34:20 +0000

Please take the title of the post as intended – with some humor and with total humility. I’d like to share some ideas but don’t make any claims at being an expert. This post may be more for the beginner than for the experienced angler – but even experienced folks need some reminders from time [...]