Daniel Galhardo, founder of Tenkara USA, talks to author John Gierach about his interest in tenkara, which is part of Gierach's new book "All Fishermen are Liars".
What caught my attention about Tenkara is the effectiveness and simplicity of high-sticking with a long rod, essentially sans fly line, on broken water.
Love his honesty. "Flash in the pan, like switch rods will be in a few more years" "A line catalogue, 52 pages long, and you need MAYBE two lines, at most."
Tenkara is called - in old European terms and technique - ‘ angling’. The fishing rod used to be called the ‘angle’ in the 15th century, it is exactly the same. That’s the way we used to fish. It’s our history, that’s why your drawn to it.
Incorrect. Angling refers to Olde English "angol" which is a hook. Angling means fishing with a hook, as opposed to nets, weirs, bow fishing, spear fishing etc...
I love to fish and have been doing so in MN and learned to flyfish here in ID. Saw a guy using a Tenkara rod on a stream and could not figure why he just doesn't use a 9 ft flyrod that is more than half the cost plus you a have a reel. He said that his complete set up was just over 200 dollars. I fail to see any advantage that his rod has but with a fly rod, I have distance and better control over a cast. true when he breaks his pole down, its only about a foot long but my four piece rod is about two feet.
Do y'all have trouble throwing the corn off the hook while casting?... Just kidding, Tenkara is awesome. You can get amazingly long drifts with those rods.
