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The Wintertime Blues Project
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 […]
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The Secrets to Successful Fly Fishing (and Tenkara) for the Beginner: Part 1
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 […]
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Tapered Tenkara Lines from John Vetterli
A while back I tested out a couple of the tenkara lines being made by John Vetterli (of Tenkara Guides in UT). These lines are based on the line design of Eiji Yamakawa of Japan. […]
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More Autumn Small Stream Fishing
Autumn’s here and the fishin’ is…well it can be tough sometimes actually. I got out on a “local” trout stream the other day. By local I mean about 50 miles way. It’s the closest wild […]
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More Small Stream Tenkara: Some musing and a few practical ideas for small stream tenkara
When I say small stream here – I’m talking small. Not small compared to a river but small compared to a small stream. This tiny stream is tucked into a rhododendron choked valley. Are the […]
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Spring Creek,Takayama Sakasa Kebari, score one for technique, and noodles
Last week I went to Pennsylvania’s Spring Creek in Centre County. Spring Creek, a limestone stream, is fairly rich in trout foods. It is also the kind of stream, that can be pretty tough at […]
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Tenkara by any other name…or Tenkara is as Tenkara Does
So if you happen to be watching there is a debate raging about tenkara (a tempest in a teapot I guess in the grand scheme of things). No I’m not talking about the debate about […]