Anglers up for a more challenging—and arguably more elegant—fishing experience often pivot from traditional spinning rods or baitcasters to fly-fishing. That can be a big jump for most, not just in ...

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Recently, some friends and I decided to make the trip up for some spring snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain. Given the nice weather, however, I was hoping to squeeze in a bit of fishing along Highway ...

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 ...

Tenkara is a style of flyfishing developed by commercial fishermen in the mountain streams of Japan roughly 400 years ago. Its essence is simplicity — a rod, line tippet and single reverse-hackled fly ...

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 ...

I know a few really dedicated tenkara anglers — some of these folks won’t touch a traditional fly rod, no matter what and no matter when. They are complete converts, and that’s totally fine. While I ...