Six years ago, I had newly discovered the tenkara approach to fly-fishing, and I was eager to get into more wilderness areas to try it out. I had been in and around wilderness most of my life, but I ...

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 ...

ON THE KINNICKINNIC RIVER — Matt Shipp smacked the back of his neck. “More mayflies coming out,” he said, examining the mush that moments ago alighted on his flesh. “And some of them are really big.” ...

Fly fishermen tend to be their own breed of anglers. However, the ancient Japanese art of tenkara is gaining momentum in the U.S. and showing that there is simplistic room for improvement in ...

Daniel Galhardo, John Gierach and I are standing on a remote branch of the St. Vrain Creek with 12-foot-long fly rods in our hands. But I should qualify my usage of the word “fly” rod. We are indeed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everybody is in search of some simplicity in life, but perhaps nobody searches harder for it than the fly fisherman. So it's no small wonder why tenkara, the most simplistic form of fly-fishing, has ...

As the rest of us roll back and forth this month and next over mountain passes in our heavy duty pickups, coming and going from various fall hunts, fishing trips and excursions to passion, Jeffry ...

When Jason Konopinski gets into something, he really gets into it. That might explain why he owns six tenkara fly-fishing rods, at least two of which are in his car at any given time. Tenkara, an ...

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 ...