Tenkara rods are a modern take on a traditional form of Japanese fly fishing. The entire system consists of a long rod, a leader, tippet, and a fly. In many aspects, it embodies the purest form of ...

An ancient Japanese fishing technique — tenkara — is becoming increasingly popular in the back country of the United States. Tenkara, which means heaven or from the skies in Japanese, originated with ...

As entrancing and addictive as the sport of fly fishing can be, the very idea of it has the opposite effect on some people, who feel it’s too complicated, too technical and too difficult. Anyone ...

For me, hiking and fly fishing go hand-in-hand. Even before I started fly fishing, I loved to fish where the pressure was light and I didn’t have to fight for a spot. Usually this meant hiking into a ...

In a sport as resistant to change as fly-fishing, tenkara is a revolution. Actually a counterrevolution, since its stripped-down, minimalist aesthetic harks back to the earliest days of angling with ...

TV news anchors have nothing on fishermen when it comes to stretching the truth. More than 70 years ago, humorist Ed Zern observed, “Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.” And just last ...

Rob Lepczyk hadn’t been in the Gunpowder River for more than five minutes on a late September morning before he felt a tug on his line. The 26-year-old Sparks resident yanked at the long rod before ...

The clear water of Quartz Creek runs over my wading boots, the Alaska sun bright in a sky of crystal blue. Mountains, impossibly green and rich from the long summer hours of daylight, chew the horizon ...