If you want to get your feet wet with Tenkara Fly Fishing, it helps to get the right gear out of the starting gate. Here’s a Tenkara fly fishing starter kit with the basic essentials to get you going. Tenkara USA Iwana …
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10 Beginner Tenkara Fly Fishing Tips
Tenkara fly fishing is a minimalist type of fly fishing used for mountain stream trout fishing. With an emphasis on simple lightweight gear, this form of fishing is perfect for backpackers who want a deeper wilderness experience in the backcountry. Here are …
Read More »Orvis Ultralight Wading Boots Review
Orvis’ Ultralight Wading Boots are rubber-soled wading boots that I wear with stocking foot waders when I fly fish rivers with a rod and reel. On wider streams and rivers, a rod and reel, waders, and wading boots give you the extra …
Read More »Tenkara EZ Keeper Line Management Hack Using Paper Clips and Electrical Tape
I like to keep the line rigged on my Tenkara Rod when I go fly fishing, so I wrap it around a pair of EZ Keepers that are attached to the outermost segment of the telescoping rod shaft. I wind the line …
Read More »The Orvis Guide to Small Stream Fly Fishing – Book Review
Small stream fly fishing is not a glamorous sport and it’s difficult to brag about the bite-size 6″ trout that you catch at the company picnic. But the satisfaction that comes from fishing an undiscovered virgin trout stream that’s never been fished before …
Read More »Tippet Rings for Tenkara Fly Fishing
A tippet ring is a very small metal loop that you tie in between a line and a tippet that lets you change tippets frequently without having to shorten the length of your line or leader, something that inevitably happens whenever you tie …
Read More »Book Review: Simple Flies
While fly fishing can be as simple as tying a general-purpose fly to your line and trying to hook a fish, a lot of people geek out and tie different flies for different seasons and stages in the life-cycle of the insects …
Read More »Hiking and Fishing the Little River (NH)
The Little River is a mountain stream that drains the narrow valley between Mts Hale, Zealand, and North Twin, three 4000 footers on the north side of the Pemigewasset Wilderness. It’s a freezing cold, boulder-choked river with miles of continuous pools, pour-overs, …
Read More »Hiking and Fishing the Hancocks
North and South Hancock are two White Mountain 4000 footers in New Hampshire’s Pemigewasset Wilderness that are connected by a short ridge. Climbing them requires a fairly strenuous, wet, and muddy 9.8-mile hike with 2700′ of elevation gain, and most people do …
Read More »Fly Fishing the Mad River (NH)
The Mad River is a tributary of the Pemigewasset River in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. I backpacked to its headwaters in Mad River Notch to fly fish for native brook trout using my Tenkara Fly Fishing gear and to explore a new …
Read More »Red Trout Flies
I’ve been doing a lot of Tenkara Fly Fishing this summer and I’ve made a point of exploring the small mountain streams I come across on my backpacking trips and peakbagging hikes. As a self-taught angler, I’m always experimenting and trying new …
Read More »Fly Fishing the Great Gulf Wilderness
The Great Gulf Wilderness is a deep glacial valley surrounded by Mt Washington, and the Northern Presidentials – Mt Adams, Mt Jefferson, and Mt Madison. It’s drained by a high gradient stream called the West Branch of the Peabody River which runs …
Read More »Fly Tying for Beginners
I started catching trout when I started tying flies. Coincidence? Maybe. But if you’re a trout angler, there’s no such thing as coincidence if it means breaking a trout drought! However, even though I fish with a Tenkara rod, I didn’t get …
Read More »Fly Fishing Small Streams by John Gierach
If you’re a fly fisherman, John Gierach’s name will be a familiar one. The author of many fly fishing books including: All Fishermen are Liars Trout Bum No Shortage of Good Days Even Brook Trout Get the Blues Gierach’s amusing and witty …
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