tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62228859395519499082024-03-14T05:08:22.223-07:00TENKARA ENSOtenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-63571757775215323322020-01-03T02:47:00.001-08:002020-01-03T02:48:14.582-08:00A very difficult 2019 tenkara season<div style="text-align: justify;">
As I had planned a few days before this opening of trout fishing all the bad conditions had been met to make fishing as difficult as possible. On the opening saturday I arrived as usual at 7:30 am near the stream where I planned to fish but this year despite the distance which separated me from it I already heard it which is rather bad sign because when it happens it is that it is flooding.</div>
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To access the stream I cross a wild meadow, always passing in the same place, and at each step I plunged up to my ankle in the ground so much it was soaked and once the stream in front of me I could only to notice its brownish hue which did not bode well. Usually this is where I prepare my rod and start fishing, but this time I didn't do it. I did not prepare my cane since the stream was impenetrable. So I went up the stream hoping that when approaching its source the water would be clearer but it was hardly lost; the eleven kilometers were uniformly stained by the silts displaced by the current.</div>
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This opening of the trout fishing season started very badly. March and April passed without any fishing opportunity because the weather was so bad. Finally at the beginning of May, spring began to settle in the area and I took the opportunity to devote a little time to fishing the local streams. The fishermen must have been really discouraged from the start because I did not meet anyone on any river which is rather rare because these small streams are usually well frequented by natural baits anglers.</div>
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I had to wait until the beginning of May to finally benefit from favorable conditions for trout fishing. From mid-June the drought and the heatwave did begin and I decided to stop fishing for this season with the hope that by the end of the season the weather would be seasonal and that the conditions would be good to at least enjoy September weekends to enjoy the streams. This was not the case since from the beginning of September the rain and thunderstorms were almost daily reducing to nothing any hope of ending this very brief fishing season by fishing.</div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-85885167872887435822019-03-07T02:30:00.000-08:002019-03-07T02:30:32.177-08:00Tenkara 2019, I'm ready!<div style="text-align: justify;">
Nearly six months have passed since my last fishing trip; I have not had the opportunity this winter to go fishing for pike as the weather was terrible. Winter is coming to an end and the first spring surges have been interrupted by the arrival of some most unpleasant disturbances; rain, wind and hail have put streams in a total mess. I was expecting this year as usual at a difficult season opening but there it is likely to be terrible.A few days ago a friend of mine published on his facebook timeline a beautiful picture of the snowy Ubaye river, the same place where we had fished during the last <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2018/07/tenkara-fest-2018-part-1.html" target="_blank">Tenkara Fest </a>and after "like" the beautiful photo I commented that my opening was going most certainly consist of "giving the gear a walk". It will be about that. The tenkara gear will have a walk!</div>
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This year I will of course remain faithful to minimalism in terms of fishing equipment because that suits my tenkara experience perfectly. All the material except rod and tamo will hold within my Zimmerbuilt tenkara strap pack. When one of the world's best backpack manufacturers discovers tenkara and designs bags dedicated to other tenkara anglers, we get this kind of useful, functional and durable piece of equipment.</div>
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This pouch is enough to contain my only <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2014/11/my-definitive-kebari-box-last-year-i.html" target="_blank">kebari box</a>, the one that was made by Richard Setina years ago and which is in my opinion the perfect box for a tenkara angler. I obviously have other boxes, a Nissin foam box and another one is a traditional bait box made by a Japanese craftsman of my friends that I somehow diverted from its original use.</div>
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My kebari will be three, one of them being a dry. A few years ago I had developed a minimalist dry fly, the <a href="https://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2015/06/last-day-on-cheran-stream.html?m=0" target="_blank">Cheran Dry</a>, and since then it has evolved somewhat. The thread body had the disadvantage of making it necessary to lubricate so that the fly remains floatant and I therefore opted for a combination of a natural dubbing and a synthetic dubbing which are both very hydrophobic and I do not need to carry grease to use this fly. The second is an Oni kebari, sakasa kebari type, which is a very useful and very effective wet fly pattern. I had fished all the season 2014 with only this type of tie but with the body in yellow and it had been the opportunity to learn and understand many things about the use of this type of kebari.</div>
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The third kebari in my box is a simple zenmai-dou identical to the ones I did take with me to Japan and since those years that my experience of tenkara lasts it is surely the kebari that I used the most.I will have the opportunity to come back in the future on the topic of kebari because it is essential to a valid tenkara approach.For the rest of the fishing equipment the classic Tiemco ceramic blade nipper, Daiichiseiko line cards and a pair of Loon short clamps.</div>
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In fact the most of weight and volume in my bag the day of the opening will be the food, drink, the stove and my ultralight Thermarest Z seat.</div>
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We are now forty-eight hours away from the day. And I'm ready!</div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-48632221847952749032019-01-20T01:20:00.001-08:002019-01-20T01:20:36.350-08:00Happy new tekara year!<div style="text-align: justify;">
The time has come for me to wish to all of you a wonderful new tenkara year as time passes and the fishing season is getting closer. It is the time when fishing plans come to our mind. </div>
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The 2019 season of this blog, the seventh, will be in the continuation of what I have done since the beginning which means relating my tenkara experience to promote this fishing technique in the way that I have been taught by the people I was lucky to meet in Japan. I will go on publishing fishing reports, gear reviews and of course tenkara anglers interviews.<br /><br />I wish to each of you a wonderful 2019 tenkara experience! </div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-44449187093936793672018-10-03T01:11:00.000-07:002018-10-03T01:12:10.792-07:00Trout fishing season is closed.<div style="text-align: justify;">
After not going fishing for two months because of the drought that hit the rivers hard I decided to go to the stream for the season closing Sunday, September 16th. I arrived very early to hit the river at the right time and it was probably not going to last very long because of the very low water level for almost two months. The first half of August had been stormy, as is often the case in the area, but these storms were too dry and did not bring the necessary water to the rivers.</div>
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I quietly prepared my rod in the soft light of the morning. I knew I did not have a lot of time until the temperature went up and the fishing became even more difficult than it was going to be already with such low water level.</div>
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I waded upstream targeting only the most "deep" places, even though it is a little bit strange to call "deep" spots in a river where there is only 8 or 9 inches of water, but it did not pay. So I came out of the water not to be spotted because the vibrations of my footsteps and then returned to the water to fish downstream a position that I know well where I often took trout housed under a trunk parallel to the edge. It was the right choice and I did take a very beautiful trout that I will barely get out of the water to not expose it to the hot air.</div>
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After this trout had gone back to a place where I could not see it anymore, I put my kitchen kit in my pack and went up the river for about 1.5 miles to go to the exact place where I had taken my last trout of the previous season. I caught a trout in exactly the same spot but it was not the same fish, it was smaller than the one I released last year.<br />
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As announced by the weather the sky was overcast and the temperature was really low but this cloudy veil takes nothing away from the beauty of the place. This fishing area benefiting from a patrimonial management there is only wild brown trout here and "catch and release" is the rule.</div>
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We realised a few minutes after our arrival that we were preceded by a couple of fishermen and unfortunately for us one who practiced the most untimely wading by which he put all the trout on alert. It was Guilhem and Jérôme who had the best success in this area; for my part I did miss two trout because of not fast enough hook settings and each time the same sanction: my tippet ended stuck under a rock. </div>
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After visiting the <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2015/06/tenkara-fest-2015.html" target="_blank">Ardèche</a>, <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2016/06/tenkara-fest-2016.html" target="_blank">Lozère</a> and <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.com/2017/06/tenkara-fest-2017.html" target="_blank">Vercors</a> in previous years we have this year at the invitation of Frédéric discovered the<a href="http://www.ubaye.com/" target="_blank"> Ubaye</a> Valley. It was a long time since I wanted to visit this area to fish there and it was the perfect opportunity. We were going to be five fishermen this year to spend this weekend dedicated to tenkara and the discovery of a beautiful mountain stream.</div>
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Arrived in the area on Friday evening Guilhem, Edouard and I were joined on saturday morning by Frederic "Tenkara Ubaye" and one of his friends named Jérôme and after a brief talk we left the village of <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jausiers" target="_blank">Jausiers</a> to go to the banks of the Ubaye stream.</div>
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Arrived near the area where we wanted to fish we realised that like the weather forecast announced the wind was present and the sky slightly overcast; the melting of the snow not being finished the Ubaye was still a little high and gray but Frédéric who knows this stream very well estimated that this situation was not insurmountable for experimented tenkara anglers.</div>
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After a good walk that warmed us we arrived on a gentle slope through which we had an easy access to the river. Jérôme, Guilhem and Edouard went upstream while Frédéric and I went downstream.</div>
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A few minutes laters I will catch a beautiful trout with a fly that I take everywhere with me; the Zenmai-dou.</div>
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What a pleasure to see the trout arise from their cache to take this kebari drifting a few inches below the surface!</div>
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After a well deserved lunch break we went fishing on a small plateau, somewhat strange scenery where the river has formed a kind of archipelago where between countless islands live trout. Frédéric and I will also have the opportunity to observe several of those trout waiting for insects to drift in their sight. </div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-11347836795814692042018-06-17T08:40:00.001-07:002018-06-17T08:40:39.644-07:00May tenkara<div style="text-align: justify;">
The month of May having been a long litany of thunderstorms and rain I did not fish much, I actually spent much more time browsing the banks of streams and rivers in search of fishing areas than actually practicing tenkara fishing. In fact the month of May that just finished could have been a month of February; we did not do what we like.</div>
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The advantage, if I had to find one in this experience of a rotten spring, is that the fact of visiting the rivers makes it possible to realize the evolution of their state.</div>
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One Sunday morning on the banks of one of my favorite streams I met this baby jay and I was intrigued not to see him fleeing all wings out at my approach. When it decided to take flight it found itself at the first flapping of wings suspended under the branch on which it was sitting. I took off my jacket and used it as a net to catch the bird in a harmless way, and I was not even surprised to see that its legs were tangled with fishing lines and a bunch of shots. If the jay is usually a pretty vindictive bird this one seemed to have understood that I did not want to hurt him and let me cut the fishing line that condemned him to certain death. Released, he landed a few yards from me and I turned my back immediately.<br />
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I finally found fishing areas near the sources of many streams in the area; the condition of the water being less affected by heavy daily rains made fishing possible. I had to cast short and precise and that is why I did use the Nissin Pocket Mini in 270 which is a rod of choice for fishing small streams.<br />
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Since a few days the storms and rain have stopped is then it remains only to wait until the rivers find their summer finery back and return to visit them.<br />
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Since the opening of the trout season last month the weather has been so bad that I have not been able to go fishing once; most streams having seen their waters become strongly tainted. However, I have seen many fishermen strive on several streams throughout the month, surely those people who want to "profitable" their fishing licence by filling their freezer of these famous "farm" trout. Fortunately last week we finally saw spring conditions settle.</div>
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Finally blue in the sky and white, pink, yellow, purple on the banks! And the madness of the flying fauna of the undergrowth. Spring has finally begun!</div>
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I started fishing a little upstream from where I stopped at the opening. An interesting place, narrow and crowded where the discretion and the casting precision are imperative for the angler who does not want to spend his time to unhook his kebari from branches and brambles and who wants to make visit his tamo to a trout.</div>
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Like every year I did not miss the ritual of the trout season opening although this year I thought that for once I was going to miss it because the winter was particularly rainy and some days before the fateful date the state of many of the creeks in the area was really bad, all had high water level and a pretty disgusting dark stain. Fortunately we were like all the France affected by the cold wave which caused the stop of the rain and consequently a rather fast decrease of the level of the water as I noticed it a few days before the opening on the occasion of a walk on the banks of the stream on which I open the trout season every year.</div>
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I devoted a single evening to prepare the season opening because I had actually prepared everything several months ago ; it was more a kind of detailed review of my equipment. Knowing that I would fish only drowned in this period of opening I packed my box only a few kebari for this purpose.</div>
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The smallest is none other than a refined version of my faithful <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html" target="_blank">Yamato kebari </a>that has been following me everywhere since my trip to Japan and I do not regret it, on the contrary because it made me catch trout everywhere. From <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/08/itoshiro-tenkara.html" target="_blank">Itoshiro</a> to <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2017/06/tenkara-fest-2017.html" target="_blank">Vercors</a> through Ardèche and Normandy. True to the job! The largest, only a little larger, is made of zenmai and a hen chicken feather.</div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In my tenkara experience I have been lucky to encounter some of the most eminent teachers in Japan and also a handful of the best ambassadors in the west. Adam Trahan has made for several years a great work in studying the tenkara techniques and history and he has made a great job in sharing his knowledge through his Tenkara Fisher Forum that has now become a blog.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I have known him through social media for several years and I have always appreciated his viewpoint about tenkara so it is a great pleasure for me today to publish his interview on my own blogs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #999999;">Christophe:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999;"> Hello Adam! Many people in the tenkara community know you as you managed the Tenkara-Fisher Forum which was one of the very first website in the west dedicated to tenkara but as in the whole internet universe very few of us have ever met you in real life. Can you please introduce yourself? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Adam</b>: <span style="background-color: white;">I started fishing as a young child, my Grandfather, who didn’t like fishing, taught me with a cane pole. He knew that a young boy needed to know how to fish. This is the reason why I look at fishing with a pragmatic view. I’ve always fished my whole life also doing many other exciting sports along with having an interesting and intense career path. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">In 1995, two things happened that would alter the course of my life. I quit </span><b style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="http://hangwind.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">cross country hang gliding</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> and I started creating a web site on small stream fly fishing. I used my love of fishing small streams to ignore the call of the sky. I dove into creating the best web site on this type of fishing with the help of many great anglers. My story of helping tenkara along comes from this same desire. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Adam</b>:I knew about tenkara long before most of the people in America but that is not when I discovered tenkara. About the same time I began writing my web site on fly fishing small streams, </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-yoshikazu-fujioka.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Yoshikazu Fujioka</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> started to make his. He and I began our online friendship then. Fujioka-san is a fly fisher that also does tenkara but his site started with fly fishing his favorite small streams. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I learned about fly fishing as a boy of about 10, it was really simple for me, not the simple of today’s tenkara, simple in that I was not taught to shoot a line. I wasn’t given instruction so I just gripped the line in my hand and fished with the line about as long as the rod. That pragmatic approach to fishing is what I used to teach myself fly fishing as a boy. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">When I quit hang gliding, I was learning as an adult all the aspects of fly fishing, to really wring out the performance of a fly rod. I was learning about entomology, the history of fly fishing, about bamboo fly rods but focused on small streams as Fujioka-san was. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">In 2009, I was deep into making bamboo fly rods. I I was learning from some of the best modern makers through another web site I created, </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grassart.net%2F&h=ATOe8G8_5cu8HF3rjMwF6LZUXtRRmsKYG2kJz4iiBukRvwt6017b5eXKESK7l04k2eIkv0x-0mWAVIHgUMhaRiRcdhnYJbEwe2JRnxVQhTP27yAls04cArsC8OKHRW4wZHDG0Kbj2-lmHRD9qzE" style="background-color: white; color: #888888;">www.grassart.net</a><span style="background-color: white;"> I was looking for a recipe for a long rod that I could create to fish like I did when I was a child. Tom Smithwick, a fellow bamboo fly rod maker suggested that I contact </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-daniel-w-galhardo.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Daniel Galhardo</a></b><span style="background-color: white;">. He was selling tenkara rods. So I called him and he set me up with an Ebisu. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I found out about Masami and </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-prof-hisao-ishigaki.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ishigaki-sensei</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> through Daniel but in my own research online, I found out about </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-kazuya-shimoda.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kazuya Shimoda</a></b><span style="background-color: white;">. He is a genryu tenkara angler and he produced many videos on tenkara. So I began to follow him as well as the people Daniel was introducing tenkara outside of Japan. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I knew about tenkara, genryu and sawanobori 23 years ago but it wasn’t until I got my own rod that I understood the precise performance in a short range tenkara rod. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Christophe</b>: You have traveled to Japan to meet Masami Sakakibara and Yuzo Sebata as well as their own "tenkara tribe"; how do you think these journeys have influenced you in your tenkara experience? Do you think that the people in western countries will ever be able to reach such a level of involvement in their own tenkara community? And also asuch a deep understanding of what tenkara can be for some people such Masami Sakakibara, Yuzo Sebata, Hisao Ishigaki and the generation that follows them. From my own experience I think that it will only exist on a very small scale gathering only the passionate tenkara anglers who will not jump in the wagon of the next fad in fly fishing world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black;">Adam:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> To answer your question quickly but with meaning, I learn about the Japanese people and their culture more than anything else when I travel to Japan. For me, Japan and the tenkara anglers there will always be a part of my tenkara. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">With all due respect to all my friends and acquaintences, tenkara is now outside of Japan and the same passion can be found in France, Italy, America or South Africa. There are other countries too, passionate ambassadors. Tenkara is growing outside of Japan with the help of a lot of people around the globe. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: black;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Perhaps they will find their way to the Japanese mountains and the anglers there as you and I have and to the mountain streams in their own country. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b>Christophe</b>: </span><span style="color: #999999;">I am also a fishing gear minimalist and it does not only make my tenkara better, it also allows to carry some other kind of gear such as a camping stove, a reflex camera, a bottle of good beer. This equipment is useful to prepare a lunch break and also taking pictures of animals, mushrooms, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Adam:</b><span style="background-color: white;"> I have a few “types” of tenkara fishing trips that I take. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It’s important to remember that tenkara, not the fishing method but the look at why tenkara is so appealing, this simple approach, the </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/tenkara-minimalists.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">minimalism</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> works in many different areas of life. Because I live in a city, the areas where I fish are diverse and the types of trips I take are also varied. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">For fishing the </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/untenkara-urban-tenkara-fishing.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">local ponds </a></b><span style="background-color: white;">during the winter in my city, I take only my fishing gear. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">When I travel by car to the streams in our state, if I do a day trip, I often only take my fishing gear if I am only fishing less than two or less miles of stream. I might take a </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/06/re-purposed-pet-bottle-early-times.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">repurposed PTE bottle</a></b><span style="background-color: white;">for water and a knife. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">For a day trip, I might take a daypack or a </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/06/zimmerbuilt-sling-lite.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">sling bag</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> and in that, I might take a stove, cook pot, a repurposed PTE bottle of water, ramen, my little emergency essentials ditty bag, a sit pad and my Sake flask. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">For a </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/04/ultralight-backpacking-and-tenkara.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">camping overnight trip</a></b><span style="background-color: white;">, I will take my pyramid style tent with netting, a efficient sleep pad, my quilt, dehydrated meals, stove or lightweight grill, a small folding saw, a lightweight “sink” for clean up and fire dousing, a micro table, a small headlamp, and a few personal effects as well as stuffable down puffy jacket.</span><span style="background-color: white;">When I </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkarausa.com/tenkara-lifestyle-lightweight-travel-tips/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">travel by plane</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> to a destination, my gear is not the same as my camping gear. I do not want to appear as a camper in my destination city. I use gear that is designed for multi-purpose. I use a backpack that has no outside pockets, it is easy to stuff into an overhead bin or under a seat. It is maximum legal airline carry on, I do not check my baggage. So my backpack is airline friendly in that it has handles on each side and the comfortable straps are stowable. My pants have a durable water repellant finish and do not hold water or odors. I use merino wool, performance clothes that can go a few days without looking dirty or worn. If I am camping, I use the tent, pad and quilt, the same utilities for eating. My tenkara gear changes once I get on a plane, I use very compact rods so that I can put them inside my bag and forget them until I am fishing. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I’ve learned very much about what I don’t need with a minimalist view that I found out about from learning tenkara. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Christophe</b>: In your tenkara experience you have tested a whole lot of gear as some of us also have; do you think that it has brought you what you were looking for? What is your favorite tenkara gear set today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Adam:</b><span style="background-color: white;"> For a while, I made it a purpose to learn the different tenkara experts style by using their rods and setting them up the way they used them. Rods by Masami Sakakibara, Hisao Ishigaki and </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-yuzo-sebata.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Yuzo Sebata</a></b><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My “work rods” are the <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/03/tenkara-usa-ito_31.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ito</a></b> from <b><a href="http://www.tenkarausa.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tenkara USA</a></b>, that and the <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/05/tenkara-usa-sato_21.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sato</a></b> gets used hard. The Rhodo is a tight quarters casting rod that I beat against the trees, that is a really well thought out rod. I use these because they are rods from a friend and from the company I learned tenkara with. They are also the rods I suggest to new tenkara anglers.<br /><br />Sometimes I use my <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/p/sakuraorder-information-for-north.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sakura </a></b>Sekirei because it has been around for a long time and is my first rod from Japan and excellent quality. I really like it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Christophe</b>: I have seen your reports on your blog and I had not imagined this state had these beautiful mountain meadows and forests, what is tenkara fishing like in Arizona?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black;">Adam:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> Arizona has a stigma for being a desert. The Grand Canyon, spaghetti westerns, media associates Arizona with cactus and deserts. The thing of Arizona, we have mountains and snow! Our highest mountain is nearly 13,000’ and we have several mountain ranges above 7,000’ and a great portion of the state is above 5,000’ which is about the elevation that sustains a cold water trout stream. We have the largest ponderosa pine forest in the country! Our forests are varied, blue spruce, aspens, all kinds of trees and we even have a world famous for fly fishing tailwater river that carves canyons through solid rock, Lees Ferry in Marble Canyon, part of the Grand Canyon complex of the Colorado River!If you don’t mind, I would like to back up a little. I learned about the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: black;">*<a href="https://cfpub.epa.gov/watertrain/moduleFrame.cfm?parent_object_id=1193&object_id=1196" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Rosgen Stream Classification System </a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">decades ago. It is a system that classifies the different types of streams. In fly fishing and tenkara, there are many enthusiasts that struggle to understand stream types so I use the Rosgen system, it seems to work pretty well.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Typically, these streams breed trout (brook or brown) that were planted long ago. The game and fish organization often changes the population of a stream to meet the needs of their studies. Lately there have been efforts to grow the population of our native species, the Apache and Gila trout which are not my favorite. My favorite being brook trout, the reason being, they refuse to live in ugly places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/08/oak-creek-82717.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Oak Creek</a></b>, one of my favorites is managed as a put and take rainbow trout fishery. It is a stream that I have been fishing for about 50 years off and on. It runs through Sedona, red rock country and I can get there in about an hour and a half. If it is 115 degrees in Phoenix where I live, I can drive up before the sun rises and bask in the 50 degrees of the deep canyon, catching the wild brown trout to 20+” and then turn around and be back home by early afternoon. I do this a few times over the course of the year, it’s one of my home streams and if I am catching the browns there, I’m doing well. I have helped many people through to the next level in their fishing by showing them the gentle and generous side of Oak Creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Arizona has wonderful fishing opportunities year round. Cold water, warm water, 3.5 hours south we have the Sea of Cortez, a world class salt water fishery. We have fishing, you just need to use the windshield time in your car to realize it.f trees and we even have a world famous tailwater river that carves canyons through solid rock, the Grand Canyon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/02/japan-trip-2016.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">been to Japan</a></b> three times now, twice for fishing, my funds are limited for travel and a big trip like this is years in the planning for me. I do have plans to return but not as I have done in the past. I really want to visit Yoshikazu Fujioka and <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/10-questions-with-yoshida-takashi.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Yoshida Takashi</a></b> and go through his day one school. He is responsible for many many people learning tenkara in Japan and his voice is largely missing here. The same with Kazuya Shimoda, I would really like to visit him too. I love visiting Japan but it is difficult as I have friends all over and I want the experience of visiting the big circle of friends, not just the same ones over and over. With respect, I like the community aspect, not just one single group, all of my friends there, I want to visit. My style of Japanese tenkara is not one group, it is community, a broad range of styles have influenced me, not just one group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was invited to go to South Africa to give a talk to an old club there when I was fishing small streams with a fly rod. I kick myself for not taking that offer up. I want to go to South Africa like nobodys business. The quality of streams is outstanding there, the community is old, focused and keen. I have <b><a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/2017/01/interview-with-stephen-boshoff.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">friends there</a></b> and helped get tenkara started in this country. I will go there in some fishing and tourist capacity one day. I’m going to do it, I missed my first chance but I will make that up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I would be careful how you approach me about visiting France. This is how my trips start, with a mention in a conversation, that spark grows into a fire that burns hot inside of me. Yes, you know I love Jadot and yes, I want to visit France, those those mountain towns where many of the dreams you see in crazy sports are being lived by focused extreme athletes. It is my TARGET for the next adventure. Are you inviting me? </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Christophe':</b> Tenkara has been spreading in the west since 2009 and now there are tenkara anglers in real unexpected places such as Brazil, Iran, Israel, Morocco, South Africa (and many others) but tenkara remains a controversial topic in the fishing galaxy. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2012, I interviewed Masami Sakakibara just as I interviewed you in 2015. I ask questions that I want to know about so that I learn and share with whoever wants to learn with me. I asked Masami what his definition of tenkara is and he responded with the following. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s what I love about tenkara, it is a simple but effective form of fly fishing. This is also why I say that “<u>tenkara is easy to learn, hard to master and fly fishing is hard to learn, easy to master.</u>” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Consumerism is part of the Japanese and American society. Marketing is part of the tenkara fishing community. For my example, I learned about tenkara from Tenkara USA. This new form of fishing fit perfectly into the evolution of my fishing. As a fisherman, already I was developing interest in the method that <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Yvon Chouinard</a></b> has made popular now, “simple fly fishing” and I wrote about that long before the marketing that Yvon and <b><a href="http://www.patagonia.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Patagonia</a></b> have used in bringing their rods to market. This simple fly fishing was what I was doing on small streams only, not in the ocean and certainly not on tailwaters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Daniel Galhardo is a kind and gentle person and his marketing techniques are oddly brilliant. He shows you in his way what tenkara is with a soft touch and an aesthetic that is what what I want in my fishing. He also educates anglers on the background of tenkara through the voices of the Japanese anglers sharing their methods. Daniel’s demeanor in sharing tenkara is kind, softspoken and he creates a gentle community, perfect for learning tenkara. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently I have experience the wrath of tenkara marketing and I if I was mean or hateful, I would expose it here but I am not. I know that I have a tendency to overthink and I am human and often make mistakes. So I will not write about what I think is wrong, I’ll keep centered on what is right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unless you are Japanese, practicing tenkara with a rod, line and fly, catching fish and selling them, you are not doing authentic tenkara. In my understanding from Japanese anglers, journalists, enthusiasts, books and media, this is where tenkara was formulated. Everything after that is an interpretation, even in Japan. In Japan, the tenkara community is a small portion of the whole of fly fishing there. In the Japanese fishing community, there is a western influence just as there is a Japanese influence on tenkara as it is practiced outside of Japan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When a person picks up a tenkara rod, line and fly outside of Japan, it is his or her decision on how to practice it, NO ONE ELSE. It’s a choice. My choice is my way, as an American, sharing and supporting tenkara in the fashion that you read here. It is your choice to do it as you please. It is your decision where to get your information, it is your decision on how to practice it. In no way do I want to place my own “spin” on tenkara. That’s why I quit fly fishing, I didn’t want tenkara to be “simple fly fishing” for me, and that is what it is to some and I respect that. To me, tenkara is mountain stream fishing for trout, I also use it for still waters for trout and down in the cities and desert areas I use it for trout in season and panfish out of season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the tenkara I practice. From my understanding, from traveling to Japan, interviewing tenkara anglers from all over Japan, not just one area, I’m getting a good version of it and I’ve developed my own practice of it from this method of self teaching. I promote Tenkara USA as the equipment and education for people that I teach because from day one, Daniel Galhardo got it right. His methods have created a very kind and gentle community which I find appealing. If someone wants a Japanese rod, I will help them with one from Sakura, the old rod shop and brand that has supported tenkara in Japan from day one. They chose me to help them promote their craft outside of Japan. Sakura rods are one of the oldest tenkara brands in Japan and I am proud to be a part of them as an ambassador to that brand. I sold many early adopters of tenkara back in 2010 on, their first Japanese rod. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Adam: The pleasure is mine Christophe. If you choose to visit my area, you are welcome in my home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I want you to know that I have enjoyed your participation in tenkara in social media and on the internet since you have begun doing it. You are a kind soul, the world in general needs more people like you. </span></div>
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There are a few things I like about Zimmerbuilt that make these packs and slings more useful than other mainstream fishing packs. To begin with, there’s design – these packs are truly designed for our sport, and for holding Tenkara rods. Most fishing packs are designed to hold a rod tube at best… so it’s nice to have dedicated pockets and loops for holding Tenkara rods that are rigged up and ready to go.<br />
Another major design benefit is in the Tenkara Guide Sling – it’s just about the only sling pack I’ve found in the fishing industry that is designed for right-handed anglers! Somehow most of the other sling packs are designed to rest on your right shoulder… limiting one’s casting, and leaving the wrong arm… the left one… unburdened. So that’s great for the minority of lefties out there… but doesn’t make much sense for the right-handed anglers. Zimmerbuilt designed his sling to go over the left shoulder, leaving the right arm free to cast. Of course, you can still get a custom pack if you’re a lefty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Durability is a major strength of the Zimmerbuilt packs as well. The materials used can take a serious beating…. Mine has taken many seasons of bushwhacking through conifers and tight forests near the streams of the northeast. The pack has been with me to Japan, Italy and all over the USA. It has served me well everywhere I’ve taken it. The materials do a great job repelling water, withstanding rips, tears, dirt and general abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">While I love my guide sling, I find it just a bit too small for use on days when I go really far back into the wilderness and high up in the mountains. For those days, I need to carry more gear and heavier layers in my pack. Chris makes some other great packs that I’ve seen in use and which are already rather popular in the industry, like the Tailwater or Dead-drift packs in his lineup. <br />I opted to take advantage of the custom pack design he does, in order to design my own pack and get exactly the features I want - I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished result at some point next year. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My business partners Erik Ostrander and Rob Worthing and I designed the Guide Slingpack. The design parameters were to have a pack that was light weight, efficient in design, have the ability to carry multiple tenkara rods, and have enough cargo capacity to support a guide and two clients on a full day guided fishing trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I had Chris Zimmer build me a custom daypack based on one of his current designs. My custom pack has the capacity to carry 8 tenkara rods, has custom pocket in the lid panel for small items and it can have a Patagonia Fishing vest attach directly to the pack shoulder straps and pack body. I also use a small custom chest pack for my tenkara fly fishing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Having custom designed gear made to fit my exact needs provides me with the perfect solutions to my needs. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My daypack has travelled to Japan, Belize, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Gorda, and all across the United States. It has had lots of serious abuse and use. It shows no signs of wearing out anytime soon.</span></div>
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- The Xpac VX07 & VX21 material the Tailwaters pack is constructed of, is very durable. Part of what makes genryū tenkara fishing trips in Japan so much fun is the prerequisite for often times harrowing cross country travel. More times than I can count I found myself hiking through a dense boscage of thorny bushes, bamboo and Buna trees <span style="color: orange;">(trad: Japanese beech trees)</span>. The Tailwaters pack handled it with aplomb and even after a season of rough treatment it looks as good as new.</div>
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- On several trips I either experienced heavy rainstorms, fell into deep pools, or was forced to swim to continue upriver. Not once did the contents of my pack get wet!</div>
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- Of course I should mention that the pack costs less than $100, which is quite amazing I think.</div>
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- Lastly, Zimmerbuilt delivers great customer service. I had an issue with my waist belt and they replied quickly to my emails and promptly sent me out the necessary replacement parts at no cost. </div>
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Considering all these attributes I think it is safe to say that the Zimmerbuilt Tailwaters backpack is one of the best, if not the best, daypack for tenkara currently on the market.<br />
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Isaac is the editor of <a href="https://www.fallfishtenkara.com/" target="_blank">Fallfish Tenkara </a>blog.<br />
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I'll just be blunt, I can't stand reviewing equipment. I'm not a salesmen, I just use what I use.<br />
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I don't have an agenda, I will only tell you what I really like.<br />
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It's cool when I gather together people that are like me or I'm like them and we use the same equipment. I don't know anyone that uses this bag, I picked it out myself. My friends use the larger version but I'm not a big fan of carrying a lot in a sling bag. They are an asymmetrical load on my shoulder. I purposefully cast switch in order to be proficient on both sides of the stream and thinking about using a sling bag? Well, it's just been off my radar until my last trip to Japan where I closely followed anglers that used sling type bags.<br />
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I saw the benefits and decided to give my own a try.<br />
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I chose the Zimmerbuilt Sling Lite bag for those trips that I need a little bit more than what I can carry in my pockets and much less than what I usually put in a backpack. I've been carrying mine now for about 8 months and I really like it. I am really picky about my gear, I do not use equipment that is not functional, the Sling Lite is more than functional, it's downright forgettable.<br />
Wearing it all day, my shoulder isn't tired at all, as a matter of fact, I can't tell I have it on when I'm casting. It's just there, designed as it should be, to move with you.<br />
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Typically, I carry a <a href="https://www.rei.com/product/829881/therm-a-rest-z-seat-pad" target="_blank">Thermarest Z-fold sit pad</a> that serves a couple of purposes. I put it in the zipped main storage to insulate cold or warm bottles or thermos type drinks for my lunch. It also pads my back against things poking around in the Sling Lite. I also carry a small micro-fiber towel, a Mont Bell hiking and wading staff, a Snow Peak Titanium Sake set if I'm celebrating something with my friends. A stove and a cook pot and a couple repurposed "Early Times" whiskey bottles filled with water. I don't carry all of these things although they would all fit in the pack, usually it's a combination of these items depending on who brought what for a shore lunch.<br />
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Since my return from Isère we have entered the summer and it has quickly taken on canicular paces, to the point that given the very rapid rise of the temperature of the water of the rivers (up to 26 ° on some) the fishing authorities have decided to close the trout fishing in all streams whose width is less than two meters.</div>
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For myself in the last three months I went fishing only for very short sessions, one hour maximum, and always very early in the morning, the only time of the day when the trout show a little bit of activity.</div>
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I left at home the 13 feet rods and more to use only the 360 Nissin Royal Stage offered to me by <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/08/encountering-father-of-modern-tenkara.html" target="_blank">Fuji sensei </a>during our meeting and also one of his furled fluorocarbon lines.</div>
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I have fished the whole summer with a single kebari which is nothing but a "reduced size" version of my <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html" target="_blank">Yamato Kebari</a>. The grizzly cock feather has been replaced by hen pheasant and the head has changed from rusty brown to fluo orange.</div>
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The month of July was excellent, the temperatures were high but the stable weather allowed me to go fishing every morning knowing beforehand the state of the river; it was very different in August during which the storms were numerous. The month of September began in the rain and storms and fortunately for the trout the level of the rivers began to rise. </div>
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Because of these heavy rains the end of the trout season for me was about two weeks before the official closure but I had no regrets to have since I had fished a lot during the previous months.</div>
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The hot summer and the rainy beginning of autumn have at least a positive aspect: a very good vintage for mushrooms!</div>
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As every year I arrived first and took rather quickly the direction of a stream that we had planned to fish during these three days ie the <a href="http://www.francethisway.com/places/pont-en-royans.php" target="_blank">Bourne</a>.<br />
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But before fishing I took the time to prepare an excellent lunch on the bank of this beautiful stream bathed in sunshine and took advantage of it to relax after the almost ten hours of my night time drive. It was very hot this friday afternoon, 82 F in the shade to be exact, and so I did not expect trout to be particularly active. The Bourne is a beautiful stream where you feel incredibly good to look for trout even if this afternoon the conditions were hardly favorable to trout fishing. So I spent a good time observing another tenant on the premises.</div>
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Joined by Guilhem we decided to climb further up the river. The atmosphere began to feel strongly stormy but we were confident and wanted to start this weekend devoted to fishing by simply tenkara fishing. In spite of the stormy atmosphere then the wind started blowing but our fishing met the success. Our simple approach to tenkara, faithful to the basic principle of this sport fishing: a rod, a line, a fly, once again demonstrated its effectiveness even in difficult conditions and in my case on streams of which I knew only the name a few hours ago. </div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-52674467900500625622017-05-17T10:32:00.000-07:002017-05-17T10:32:23.714-07:00Tenkara in Focus<div style="text-align: justify;">
For six months now<a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2014/03/interview-with-john-pearson-and-paul.html" target="_blank"> John Pearson and Paul Gaskell</a> regularly offer us a program called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_32fIivZzXnhZLcMdoiGA" target="_blank">Tenkara in Focus</a>" which is very interesting because its contents come from the best Japanese sources. There is no other way to learn anything serious about tenkara than to be interested in its authentic techniques.</div>
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If the Discover Tenkara channel offers a program that is in itself very interesting John and Paul also offer excellent quality download contents and genuine mines of information for those who want to learn even more.</div>
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The latest installment is fully dedicated to <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2014/05/interview-with-masami-tenkara-no-oni-i.html" target="_blank">Masami Sakakibara</a>.</div>
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I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being taught Oni tenkara by Masami san and if he is known in the west for his long line casting it it is necessary not to make the error of not understanding that it is only one of the many aspects of what constitutes his own technique called Oni tenkara.</div>
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As I wrote many times on this blog what makes an excellent fisherman a tenkara master is not only his casting technique, although in the case of Masami san he brought it to a level unknown until then, but also the fishing techniques that he has developed from a rational observation of fish and their environment. Masami san's teaching is based on mutual observation between the teacher and his pupil. Masami san does not speak any foreign language but he is a very pedagogue and his pedagogical technique is excellent and effective. I have often wondered how Masami San would transmit his tenkara to us westerners if he spoke one of our languages and I am convinced he would do it the same way because it is simply the best.</div>
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The 51 minute <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/HaMgG" target="_blank">video</a> is very rich in information and the combination of fishing scenes of Masami san and the comments of John and Paul is perfect. It deserves to be watched several times because it contains so much information that you are not going to assimilate everything from the first viewing and it puts into perspective all the aspects of the tenkara of Masami san.</div>
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In addition to the video John and Paul also edited a 18 page <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/dHTdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> which is very well done because it explains the content of the video and if both media are available individually I encourage you<a href="https://gumroad.com/l/Mvpu" target="_blank"> to have both</a> as they are complementary.</div>
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This documentary and the PDF are in my opinion the best possible basis for learning one of the most advanced tenkara techniques that has proven its effectiveness everywhere Masami san has been fishing in his life. For a <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/Mvpu" target="_blank">very good price</a> you have the opportunity to have at your disposal the best information available at the moment about tenkara.</div>
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tenkara normandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400011792172752262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222885939551949908.post-66903971684628699712017-05-03T00:55:00.000-07:002017-05-03T00:59:19.951-07:00Since the tenkara season opening<div style="text-align: justify;">
It has been six weeks now that the trout season is open and I have not been fishing a lot because of the lack of time to dedicate and because the spring has not really settled in the area. If hawthorns and cherry trees whiten while anemones and daffodils flourish temperatures have remained really low.<br />
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Since the season opening the weather has been particularly dry and the small creeks have seen the water level significantly drop but low temperatures and strong winds do not encourage trout to activity. Fishing has been difficult but very interesting and very technical. </div>
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A few weeks ago my friend and teacher Masami Sakakibara wrote this brief sentence which I think is a perfect summary of tenkara as a sport fishing: "The important thing is not the number of fish I take but how I catch them."</div>
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I have seen, as every year, gatherings of fishermen on the most easily accessible areas of certain rivers where the fishing associations put a large number of trout, salmo trutta stockus to be precise, and as every year they already evaporated leaving the field free for the better days to come.</div>
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If I have not been fishing a lot so far I have taken great pleasure and these few exits also offered me to harvest many feathers that will be very useful to me. But I will not deal with fly tying before the season ends.</div>
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I had been waiting for the long weekend of May 1st hoping for a truly springtime weather which I would enjoy on the banks of a stream but as a storm passed over the region it was not possible, I contented myself with an excellent reading on which I shall return in due time.</div>
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As every year the final preparations for the trout season opening were made without eagerness on Friday night, the last thing I do after tying the last kebari and checking the contents of my bag is to print my license.</div>
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I had tied some sakasa kebari <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2017/03/still-few-days-to-be-ready.html" target="_blank">a few days ago</a> but I had to complete my box with models more suited to small streams that I fish at the season opening. The patterns are in fact the same but smaller in size and suitable for fishing in shallow water.</div>
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I also took a little bit of advance by tying the kebari that will fish in larger rivers where I will go fishing when the water level has dropped. For now they will remain in my box but no one knows if the heavy rains of the last few weeks may not occur again.</div>
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In the early evening I was ready, I had enough kebari to make the opening, I had printed my license which was duly stowed in my <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2014/03/zimmerbuilt-tenkara-strap-pack-three.html" target="_blank">strap pack</a>, my bag contained everything I could need during the day to come. I was not worried about the state in which I was going to find the creek where I had planned to go for this opening day because I had made several visits there during the previous days and I knew that like many others it was in flood.</div>
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The long-awaited saturday I did arrive shortly after eight o'clock on the banks of this brook, where I open the trout season every year. The weather was nice, the light was soft and the water looked a little less gray than the previous days. However, I did not start fishing when I arrived, I preferred to walk up the river until the temperature rises a little bit. </div>
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Having reached a spot where I considered to be good, I did put my rod into action and began to fish. The high and cold water was not very favorable and I had to control the drift of my kebari to have a chance to make it pass into the holes where the trout hide under such circumstances. I had to ignore many spots because of the high water level but my efforts of accurate casts and controlled drifts were rewarded.</div>
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The important thing for me anyway for the opening is simply to be near a stream even if the conditions are horrible, <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/trout-season-opening-2016.html" target="_blank">like last year</a>, and I can not fish at all. Of course it's even better when fishing is possible. I did catch a couple of beautiful brownies in the morning of this opening day and that is enough for my happiness.</div>
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As every year I took the time to lunch near the river before turning back.</div>
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We are only a few days away from the opening of the fishing so it is still time to prepare for the trout fishing season. As always I approach the preparations with calm and without haste because I know that whatever happens I will be ready. </div>
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It has been raining a lot these last few days and there is a chance that it will continue, so it is at the last minute that streams and rivers that did not have a flood during autumn or winter will see their water levels rise. It is therefore useless to rush, since the opening will undoubtedly be symbolic and the fishing in itself reduced to the congruent portion.</div>
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So I started this morning by tying the large sakasa kebari for which I used cock and ringneck pheasant feathers. I had not used feathers from farm roosters instead of "fishing" roosters fir very long time, but a blog reader offered to provide me on condition of sharing the tied flies with him and it was a pleasure to accept.<br />
Feathers from farm cocks have longer fibers and really softer fibers than those of the genetically selected roosters but since I intended to use them to tie sakasa kebari this is no problem, quite the opposite in fact.<br />
I use the <a href="https://www.tenkarastyle.com/english/fly-tying/hooks/" target="_blank">Oni hooks</a> that were designed by <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2014/05/interview-with-masami-tenkara-no-oni-i.html" target="_blank">Masami Sakakibara</a> and manufactured by a famous Japanese firm, it starts with a "G", which is the world leader in the market. They are excellent quality and the four different sizes, from 8 to 14, cover my needs.<br />
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The dubbing used this year will be only three: <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/zenmai-dou.html" target="_blank">zenmai</a>, squirrel tinted in black and washed squirrel. Natural materials, inexpensive or even free, and which make solid kebari.</div>
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I have never met Adam in person but we have many common connections in the Japanese tenkara community and I have been following this tenkara passionate's blog since the beginning. Tenkara is becoming more and more popular in the West and some people such as Adam, who transmits through his blog what he learns from Japan, is taking part in this growth. I have had the same approach with Tenkara Enso since the very beginning. Good reading!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Christophe: Hello Adam! How are you doing? We are friends on social network like a lot of us are in the worldwide tenkara community but we have never met so can you please introduce yourself?</span><br /><br />Adam: Sure Christophe, thanks for having me for an interview! My name is Adam, but many people just call me Klags, my last name shortened. I have been an outdoor enthusiast since my first childhood memories. Currently I am a wholesale wine salesman in New York City for a fantastic importer/distributor of fine wines. I really love wine, but my passion is mostly the outdoors. While most people identify me by my job and career, I prefer to identify myself through my passions in life, like fishing, backpacking and beyond.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">When I discovered tenkara thanks to Masami Sakakibara's videos and blog I decided to experiment tenkara first and it was so cool to finally discover the exact technique I had been waiting for so long that I decided to start a blog to share this experience and help other anglers to discover tenkara. You have been editing the "Of rock & riffle" blog since the end of 2014, how did you discover tenkara fishing? What is your background as an angler? Have you ever edited a blog before "Of rock & riffle"?</span><br />
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My background as an angler is mostly based on fly fishing. Of course as a young child I started fishing with a regular spin-casting setup. My first rod was a fisher price plastic kid's rod that I used to catch catfish and bass in our little country house pond in upstate New York. Soon I graduated to a nicer small stream and reel, but it wasn't long before I got into fly fishing.<br />
I discovered fly fishing when I was about 12. The local shop wanted me to try it out, and I was immediately intrigued. My father bought me a beginner's fly fishing kit from Redington and a very basic fly tying kit from Orvis, and I was hooked!<br />
I spent a few years exploring the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/dep_projects/croton_wide.shtml" target="_blank">Croton watershed</a> in New York by bike as a young teenager, and began to bring my fly rod along more and more often. Soon I managed to get a pair of waders gifted to me, and then I was truly able to embrace fly fishing...But it wasn't until I started worrying about my pack weight for backpacking that I found tenkara. I was looking at <a href="https://backpackinglight.com/" target="_blank">Backpackinglight.com </a>for information on gear and ways to reduce the weight of my pack. I had a knee injury that was never really properly looked at and "fixed" and it had been bothering me on longer hikes. During one of those conversations, someone recommended I trade my western fly rod and reel for an ultralight backpacking "Hane" rod. I later found out that this rod was a sort of one-off collaboration between a newly minted Tenkara USA and Backpackinglight.com. </div>
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I navigated to the TUSA website and bought an Iwana immediately. From then on I began to fish only tenkara, using it to truly learn how to fish, where I had never really quite understood it this way before. Tenkara became my portal into the world of successful fly fishing. Before tenkara I never understood why a floating line or sinking line mattered, why my tippet and leader were a certain length, what the strengths of a short and long rod were, where the fish were living and eating, and most importantly, how to catch them!<br />
I realized that instead of throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck, I could just cast to specific places and drift my fly in certains ways, and then catch fish!<br />
Since then I have tried many styles of rods, learned about Keiryu fishing and finally re-focused in on Japanese style tenkara, or tenkara by its actual definition. What a fun trip it's been getting to this point!<br />
Around 2012 I discovered a blog called "<a href="http://smallstreamreflections.blogspot.fr/" target="_blank">Small Streams Reflections</a>" which was (and still is) published by Alan Petrucci of Connecticut, USA. In many ways, he is my inspiration for my blog. In 2013 I started engaging with the blog and in 2014 I decided to start my own "tenkara version" of a small stream fishing blog, and <a href="http://rockandriffle.blogspot.fr/" target="_blank">"Of rock & riffle"</a> was born.</div>
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Originally I just wanted a place to keep an electronic journal for myself, organizing my photos and experiences online instead of on paper. However it appeared that people found the blog and began to read it, so I kept going. Its a lot of fun writing and posting about these adventures, but it is even better to be able to share them this way with other people. This was my first experience blogging or editing a blog, and it felt really natural to me from day one.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">When most non-American people think about fishing in the United States they think about Colorado, Utah, or Montana but only a handful would think about New-York but it seems to be an error as a kind of tenors community has emerged in the New-York state. Can you please introduce us to the the New-York tenkara community?</span><br />
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You really hit an interesting point here, Christophe! Its true. Most people think of these expansive states out West, like Wyoming, Montana or Colorado. And for good reason! The number of fish per mile in those rivers, and the abundance of clean, clear, high-mountain, glacial-melt water creates an extremely ideal food supply and healthy living situation for cuntless numbers of fish...and many big ones too!<br />
However, New York is the birth place of dry fly fishing. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catskill_Mountains" target="_blank">Catskill mountains </a>, just a couple of hours from almost any location within NYC is a true fly fishing gem. While there are no glaciers or snow-cappedpeaks to melt out year-round, there are many springs and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer" target="_blank">aquifers</a> that bring cold, clean water to the surface, creating an abondance of both hidden overgrown spring-creeks, and tumbling mountain creeks that hold wild brook trout, as well as some brown and rainbow trout where the State stocks them. The key here is the brook trout, which are native of the East Coast, and which are in such danger of being wiped off the earth from modern development, pollution and careless actions on our behalf.<br />These creeks, as well as a few main rivers like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Kill" target="_blank">Beaverkill</a>, both branches of the Delaware, the Willowemoc, and others help to boster the scene here with opportunities of bigger fish, deeper water, and more lively insect hatch cycles. These rivers have helped to define not just fly fishing in New York, but fly fishing around the world. There's a lot of history to learn about the region, but the Catskill's claim to fame is that the dry fly fishing was created here. I won't waste pages of text here telling these stories but I recommend you read one of the many books published about the topic. What you will discover is that essentially the East coast, not the West Coast, is where fly fishing took off, and NY is where it was born.<br />Beyond the Catskills, NY state has tons of great fishing that is both overlooked, and over-crowded! The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Mountains" target="_blank">Adirondack mountains</a> were once populated with more trout than the Catskills but we quickly destroyed their environment with the industrial revolution. It wasn't until well after 1990 and the "clean air act" that we finally were to help bring fish back. Today there is finally the first stages of recovery under way. Meanwhile, the large rivers of that region are stocked and full of holdover brown trout of 12-21 inches, as well as some wild brookies, and stocked rainbows.<br />Additionally, NY state has a large population of salmon that swim up from the lakes and into the rivers in the nothwest of the state each fall and spring. These rivers are mostly not textbook tenkara water, although there are a few of those mixed in too. The salmon run is extremely popular fishing, and is often way too crowded for me to want to partake. I have tried this a few times and it really is fun but its not the kind of fishing I enjoy.<br />Basically what you will find in NY is many of the same things you find in those other states...just shorter mountains, less wilderness, more population of people, and less fish. I wouldn't trade it for anything else though, there's something special about NY that these other states don't have. Or maybe that's just the New Yorker in my talking? ;)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Thank you for making this portrait of the New York area as a potentially great tenkara fishing area. It is really more interesting than the usual cliché such as the average "Big Apple", "concrete jungle" and the likes! Your passion for tenkara has brought you, like some of us in the West, to travel abroad and meet foreign tenkara communities. You have visited some tenkara tribes in Italy and Japan so my question is this one: Have you ever imagined traveling so far to meet other anglers? And most importantly, how is it important for you to involve in this kind of experience?</span><br />That's a good question...first off, no I never imagined I would travel to meet other anglers around the world like I've done over the last few years. I actuelly didn't used to like traveling. I found it to be exhausting, expensive and time consuming. The real issue was that I just didn't like traveling on other people's time restrictions and plans. I'm not very good at pretending to enjoy things I don't really like to do...and for many years I just ignored traveling because my first impressions were not really helping to make travel appealing. However, more recently, I discovered some better motion sickness medications and began to travel on my own. Making my own choices about where to go and when was really the key...it changed the entire experience from feeling dragged around tourist attractions and never really experiencing anything on personal level, to being able to immerise myself in the travel experience and really enjoy it. I realized that I liked fishing, why the heck would I travel to Paris and walk around museums when all I would be thinking about is the river and the mountains? A lightbulb lit up in my mind and I realized I just needed to do the things I do here in other countries. After that I just started doing it...its not really hard. I connected with the people I found and in some cases already knew online, and plans came together. I wrote about this for an article in <a href="https://issuu.com/troutrageous1/docs/tenkaraanglerpremiumspring2016.comp" target="_blank">Tenkara Angler magazine</a> in more detail, and I think that might do a better job of really getting into the details. To summarize...just go do it. You won't regret it.<br />
In terms of how it affected my tenkara exprience, well, that may be even harder to sum up in an interview but I will say this: perspective is everything. It's one thing to sit in front of a computer and see people's comments online, read their articles, watch their videos and try to make decisions about rods, how to fish, what fly to use, which line, etc. But that is totally without value if you don't go out there and really truly learn about WHY these different things matter. And you cannot do that without other perspectives and other people to show you things that they do, things they do not do, and WHY they do or do not do those things. Then you will be informed enough to make decisions and to develop you own styles, patterns and ways of fishing, if you will. The key is to educate oneself. To listen to other perspectives. Learn definitions. Apply that to what you do now. All of this helps to alter perspective. Once you understand other perspectives, it can help you develop your own.<br />Traveling to Japan for tenkara was really the peak of all of this for me because it helped me create more context and a better perspective. Talking about that what want to be " real" or think lmight be "correct" online does have some value, but its not based on logic and personal experience alone. You must seek to understand the history, the culture, the whole context if you are to truly understand tenkara. Tenkara is Japanese, it is not American. It has a definition and much cultural history behind it. Understanding and accepting that is the first step to becoming an effective and informed tenkara angler.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I have recently read the reports that you have shared about your second trip to Japan during which you have met Yuzo Sebata. I have been lucky to meet him as well and I have been really impressed by this man; he is a living legend in tenkara fishing as well as shower climibing, he is a prized author, a famous sansai cook but still the most humble man I probably ever encountered. How do you think your encountering with Sebata-san, and his community, may influence your tenkara experience? Sebata-san has his own fishing technique, developed from the Nikko Tenkara technique, but he also has a philosophy about relationship with nature, minimalism; what aspect of Sebata-san is according to you the most influential?</span><br /><br />Where to begin with this one...it's almost difficult. Sebata-san was a truly interesting and wonderful man. I feel I barely got to know him in our short time together and look forward to hopefully visiting him again and learning more. He is a gentle and deliberate man who brings people together with his generosity and spirit.<br />I really liked hearing about some of the wild plants he had picked to serve us, as well as the mushrooms. I like to look for wild mushrooms too, and I'm still learning how to identify most varieties myself. Sebata-san had some wonderful milky-caps and some other wild mushrooms he found. Those were sautéed. The next evening he made some Maitake tempura that I believe Keiichi-san had found, and it was incredibly good. I line in NYC, and it's not like I haven't has these things before. As a wine salesman I'm lucky enough to be at some of the finer restaurants in the cities around the world and so I hope that people can appreciate it when I say this was one of the best maitake tempura's I've ever had in my life. I'm sure part of it was the location and the experience, but that's what good food is all about, really.<br />One of the most fun moments for me was late at night on the last night, when everyone was gathered at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kanouzu.bansyo/" target="_blank">Tadami Bansho</a> around Sebata-san, watching his old videos on VHS video format. I watched the videos but I also tried to watch Sebata-san as well. It was a joy to get to see him re-living those adventures with us in that room. I felt like it was a very special moment.<br />
Sebata-san has so much knowldege about fishing, but I think the thing that makes me so in awe of him is his abilities navigating the steep gorges and raging rivers in the high mountains with so little. I don't know that its so much about intended minimalism vs what is just the way to be that made sense to a keen adventuring mind such as Sebata-san's, because I did not get to discuss it with him. I hope to do that in the future. But I can't say enough how impressed I was in the way he moved and the methods he used.<br />
At one point we watched intently on the small TV screen as he swam across a turbid pool of rapids, somehow finding the slower moving line of water and almost drifting his way across with his hat bobbing just above the surface. Another moment, we watched him tie a rope around a rock and toss it into the rapids, catching it on the far side of another rock, locking it into place with both the weight of the rock and the strength of the flowing water, then using this rope to cross some rapids between a couple of waterfalls. Wow! Throughout all of this Sebata-san would be climbing these steep and seemingly inaccessible gorges with just his pack, some rice, basic fishing gear and a rope and a will to explore.<br />I was also in awe to learn about this method of Genryu (headwaters) fishing that he pretty much created in which the fisherman climbs up one Genryu, over the top of the mountain it flows form, and then down the other side, then fishing down and descending the headwaters of the river valley below. The word "epic" comes to mind watching these videos and thinking about what those trips must have been like. I'm looking forward to seeing those videos released to the rest of the world in some modern formats soon.<br />So why do I bring all of this up to answer the question? Because all of this has influenced me a great deal in my understanding of different tenkara anglers and their styles and equipment, as well as having influenced my thinking about how to push my own tenkara and exploration to the next level.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Tenkara fishing is all about technique, the people we call "tenkara masters" such as Sebata-san, Masami Sakakibara, Dr. Hisao Ishigaki or Hiromichi Fuji are the ones who have developed their own techniques and the fishing tackle to practise these techniques so as you perhaps guess I would like you to tell us what is your favorite technique and gear. Is it a goal for you to fish in you own way?</span><br />
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Tenkara has existed for generations. Recently I've noticed a somewhat disturbing side-trend in American and other foreign Tenkara enthusiasts groups. I've noticed that people everywhere are starting to use the word "tenkara" to refer to all fixed line angling, for any kind of fish. While there's nothing wrong with fishing whatever you'd like to catch with a tenkara rod that is absolutely not "tenkara". Tenkara is fishing for trout only, in tumbling mountain streams that run cold and clear.<br />
The reason I bring that definition and distinction up is because you would never learn to fish tenkara for bass from a Japanese tenkara angler or "master". Why? Because there are already other rods, other styles, other tackles for bass. Tenkara is its own thing with its own place in history. For that very reason, I do not value "my own" style of fishing, at least not yet.<br />Six years may be a long time to some, but to me, that's nothing in terms of tenkara's history. Six years of part time study with the Japanese methods doesn't give an angler the knowledge and understanding of tenkara on a level high enough to teach much, in my humble opinion. So until I have been able to learn and master the styles of other lifetime tenkara anglers from Japan, or "masters" as we often call them, no, I will not value my own way of fishing tenkara.<br />Now that I've said that, I think it's fair to point out that I am confident in the way that I fish, in my abilities to find fish, present flies and see the takes that follow...but I would never let that confidence turn to overconfidence or ignorance. I will always see Tenkara as someone else's style that I learned, and I'd find it difficult to imagine that an average angler like me would have much to add to tenkara's style and already existing methods. Maybe I'll end up being wrong, but I don't think so.<br />Another reason I bring this all up is because I would hope it would serve as a lesson to other beginner Tenkara anglers. Spend some time reading about the history. Understand the styles ans the cultures that tenkara is built around. Respect its definition even if you intend to fish for other species with your tenkara rod. Respect where tenkara comes from, and the people who brought it to us. Respect yourself by being open minded to learning about these truths before going out and doing your own thing. If you do, then whatever your own thing is will be all that much more rewarding for you later on.<br />Now back to the easier part of the question: gear! My favorite tenkara rods are always full flex rods, such as Oni Type III and the Shimano ZL Keiryu-Tenkara. My favorite flies tend to be simple soft of stiff hackled wet flies in th eold school fashion...spiders or kebari, depending on how they are tied. My favorite lines are always level lines, as Japanese fishing methods never allow for any line on the water. I usually carry a Mankyu net, a Zimmerbuilt guide sling pack, a knife ans as little extra gear as possible. For wading I'm only in waders during the winter, using typical Japanese wet wading gear, and being sure no to step into the water unless I absolutely have to.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Thank you for these very interesting answers about your perspective on tenkara! I have noticed that tenkara passionates, the ones one can probably call the "diehard", have also other hobbies to which they are totally devoted and have been pioneering like BMX, skateboarding, hand gliding, etc. Have you other hobbies than tenkara?</span><br />I do, yes. I really enjoy hiking and backpacking, which is really what brought me to tenkara in the first place. I tend to spend a lot of time in the Adirondack mountains in NY, and I really love the <a href="http://www.visitnh.gov/what-to-do/scenic-drives/white-mountains.aspx" target="_blank">White Mountains</a> as well. I'll be hitting a number of new places next year so you can expect a lot more from me then! While I'm out fishing and hiking I tend to look for mushrooms too but I only know how to ID a fe varieties at the moment.<br />I also like mountain bike although I haven't been doing this very much since I moved to the city six years ago. I hope to get a chance to spend more time riding again because I used to really enjoy it. I remember when I used to go out even in the cold winter, much like I still do with fishing, and ride my bike down some really gnarly trails in Peekskill and all around upstate. In the summer I would train with time trials in our local mountain biking park and I even took a trip out to Utah to ride in Moab, Zion, Salta, Fruita, Park City/Deer Valley and many more amazing places. It was quite an experience, and I hope to return to some of these places to ride again.<br />I guess it would make sense for me to mention how much I enjoy drinking Chinese teas as well. It is a pretty daily habit more than a hobby, but finding tea is a hobby in and of itself. I have a whole setup with a gaiwan, a tea table and a few cups that I bought from different places around the world. Tea is calming, healthy and the process itself is very meditative and soothing.<br />
Finally, my work is wine...so I would be totally off base to leave that out. While work has in some ways tempered my passion for wine, it still intrigues me and keeps my interest, and I enjoy opening a few bottles with good company or having a glass while I tie some flies.<br />
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It's been great to have a chance to do this with you, as I've been reading your blog and following your adventures for a while too! You know, something that means a lot to me right is the idea of really understanding tenkara and what defines it. I think that in all the international excitement about this new sport being introduced around the world, somehow the original styles and message maybe have been lost in marketing somewhere along the way.<br />I have been focusing a lot on trying to re-connect with what that definition of tenkara is, since my first trip to Japan two years ago. We got tenkara from Japan. It didn't come from the USA where we now make mostly stiffer rods that don't flex very much like most tenkara rods do. Companies in the West don't have tenkara mandrels to study the taper of, or to experiment with by wrapping with different thicknesses and weaves of carbon fiber on them, before releasing rods that are touted as the next best thing...it seems that most of the companies making rods in the western world right now are just not really basing them on anything in terms of tenkara, and I's like to see that change. You can't design something if you don't know what the end goal of the design is supposed to be, can you? It's just mind boggling how we have this knowledge available to us and yet many don't choose to engage.<br />Much of what people think they will be doing for the first time here, they will have to discover on their own, has been done already in Japan. Before we as active members of this niche sport of tenkara, attempt to change the sport and its definition, we must first become experts, or masters, if you will, of the knowledge that already exists. We must resist the urge to be ignorant westerners and to just decide to things "as we please". It's not the right way to think. Tenkara is a name for a sport that is a niche within a niche. Trying to define tenkara as " whatever you want it to be" is not only incorrect for tenkara, it is disrespectful to the Japanese who created these techniques and serves only to damage the effort and time spent by the masters in creating this niche sport.<br /><br />Hope to see you in the states for some fishing!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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The first interviewee is Shoichi Saito, an angler who still fishes with traditional gear. It is interesting to listen to an experienced tenkara angler explaining why he still uses traditional tenkara gear and traditional kebari and the different techniques he uses. If traditional tenkara was practised in Japan with efficiency and profitability in mind as it was commercial fishing it is nowadays only sport fishing, a hobby, and tenkara anglers just like fishing with the techniques they have developed on their own. </div>
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Saito-san fishes with only one kebari pattern declined in two sizes and three colours. This may seem to be little but Saito-san explains very well why he made that choice and it is rational and as often as the result of a reasoned observation of fish behaviour, stream habitat and environment. </div>
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The second protagonist of the documentary is a tenkara angler I had the pleasure to meet and fish with during <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/09/tenkara-on-sho-gawa-with-ajari-and.html" target="_blank">my stay in Japan</a>. Kazuo Kurahashi, who is nicknamed Kura-san in the tenkara community, ties his favorite kebari and explains why this pattern has his preference. His kebari pattern is based on his observation of salmonids fishing behaviour and the different insects hatching on the streams he is used to fish during the season. Kura-san is also a catch and release angler and that is why he does not used super small sized hooks for his kebari as it avoids long and harmful manipulation of fish. </div>
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The next interview is with <a href="http://www.tenkara-fisher.com/showthread.php?816-Interview-with-Go-Ishii&highlight=Ishii" target="_blank">Go Ishii</a>, who is the interpreter of the interviews, and meanwhile he ties his favorite kebari. The dialogue between Ishii-san and John is very interesting as Go's perspective on tenkara is not common, his favorite thing in tenkara is pretty much unique I think.<br />There is one sentence said by Ishii-san that in my opinion perfectly sums up the Japanese tenkara state of mind of today: "This is a hobby so if you are not having fun, why do it?".</div>
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The documentary includes next a kebari tying sequence and interview with an excellent tenkara angler in the person of <a href="http://ameblo.jp/tenkara-ajari/archive1-201610.html" target="_blank">Kazumi "Ajari" Saigo</a>. He is tying a couple of kebari, different by the materials used, their design and of course their function since a fisherman tenkara does not the kebari he ties to his tippet because of its appearance but depending on how he wants to fish.</div>
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Between each of these sequences we find John and Paul briefly summarizing the facts exposed in the interviews of the tenkara anglers interviewed. As it was also the case with the first volumes this documentary is very pleasant to watch and features very rich in first hand informations as John and Paul have made the praiseworthy choice since the beginning of the Discovering Tenkara adventure to look for the right informations at the source ie Japan. </div>
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If you want to purchase this great DVD please click <a href="http://www.discovertenkara.co.uk/usaandcanada.html" target="_blank">here</a> for USA and Canada residents or <a href="http://www.discovertenkara.co.uk/usaandcanada.html" target="_blank">here</a> for the rest of the world. </div>
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The canicular month of August was long to me as I did not go fishing any single time but hopefully September has started with rain and this was good news for the streams and their inhabitants. I did go back fishing last sunday which was the day of the trout season end in most of streams. The sky was overcast and the air mild. </div>
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The few rains of the previous days have obviously not had much effect on the water level, but a supply of water makes a lower temperature and brings the fish back in feeding activity. So I prepared myself quietly. My gear was a <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/08/nissin-zerosum-oni-honryu-395-rod.html" target="_blank">Nissin Zero Sum Oni Honryu 395</a> rod, six meters of line <a href="http://www.tenkarastyle.com/english/lines-tippets/" target="_blank">2.5 号level </a>line, a meter of 号0.8 fluorocarbon to which was tied a <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html" target="_blank">Yamato kebari</a>.</div>
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I did fish all the fish spots downstream. After casting I did give my rod an oscillating movement to make my kebari drift erratically up and down just like does a real nymph trying to swim to the surface but carried away by the current. I successfully tested this technique last summer with <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2014/05/interview-with-masami-tenkara-no-oni-i.html" target="_blank">Masami "Tenkara Oni-no" Sakakibara</a> and as I had already experienced the techniques developed in Japan by true tenkara experts are effective on any stream because they are based on rational observation of the salmonids behavior and on long experience of tenkara fishing.</div>
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All trout caught during this matinee took my kebari when ascending, when it was going towards the surface. This technique gives very good results for the focused angler on its fishing because the constantly tension in the line helps very effective strike detection and hook setting.</div>
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I took during this last visit many trout revived by recent rains. I do not go through a long distance during the morning but I did fish every potential fish spot within cast reach. </div>
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After about three hours of fishing I collapsed my rod back and disconnected the line that I put up on a spool and turned back to my house. Autumn starts well for trout, rain so beneficial to the rivers after a very hot summer is back, and fishermen will have the next six months to prepare for next season.</div>
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This morning I was driving near that river, having some time I stopped my car on the side of the road to observe; trout rising to the surface in the fog disappearing under the sun.</div>
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Masami Sakakibara has surprised us last year with <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/11/nissin-zerosum-oni-honryu-450-part-1.html" target="_blank">Zerosum Oni Honryu 450</a> released by Nissin and this time they strike again with the rod this post will deal with: the Zerousm Oni Honryu 395.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In fishing action this tenkara rod is perfectly balanced. Thanks to its balance this tenkara rod can with great ease adapt to any kind of tenkara line one light use and be as performant with any type of line.<br />I think that the person who best described this tenkara rod is John Vetterli, one of the founding member of Tenkara Guides LLC: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new Nissin Zerosum Oni Honryu 395. This rod pushes the maximum performance limits into uncharted territory. Light weight, superb balance, massive power in reserve. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.08px;">This rod and its big brother the Nissin Zerosum Oni Honryu 450 are the tenkara equivalent to today's hyper cars like the Porsche 918, or Koenigsegg One:1."</span></div>
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The month of August has just started, so it is time to publish a brief summary of my fishing in July. After a month of June and its bad weather July was very hot which ultimately has been good because it has helped reduce water level in most rivers in the area.</div>
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I have been keeping throughout July the same strategy used in June: multiplying short fishing sessions (2 hours maximum) to adapt to temperatures so by fishing only early morning or late evening .</div>
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I fished the full month with the same gear : <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/11/nissin-zerosum-oni-honryu-450-part-1.html">Nissin ZeroSum Oni 450 rod</a>, Nissin Ony-ryu 号 2.5 level line and my faithful <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html">Yamato kebari</a>. Running out of rabbit dubbing I received by chance some samples of hare dubbing from a fly-tying materials company. Of course this does not alter the effectiveness of my Yamato kebari nor its function, it just changes a little its appearance. Trout, blind as bat, do not make the difference. </div>
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August is starting with gray and rainy days, fishing is perhaps going to be less easy...wait and see!</div>
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The month of June comes to an end as it has been full of gray days, rain and storms; one must not let a single opportunity to go tenkara fishing because it is difficult to make forecasts as these weather conditions are unstable. A few sunny hours can be followed by a full day of rain or a storm. Rivers bear the scars of these recurrent rains, they remained stained as they were in April.</div>
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But as soon as there is a sunny spell trout show some activity. Eventually these frequent rains that keep the water at a low temperature is good for them, at least allows them to be quieter than usual because many anglers have decided to put the rods to rest. Personally I have chosen to fish but only for brief sessions of thirty minutes to an hour, it saves me the risk of being caught in the rain or the storm before you have at least a trout. </div>
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I fish with my <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html">Yamato kebari</a> and I must say it is a pleasure to see the trout rishing out of their shelters to pick it up. I would not trade a single kebari of this pattern for the whole word weighted nymphs because that would deprive me of seeing those little yellow and gray beasts rise to the surface.</div>
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Fishing a river that I do not visit often I think I have chosen the good stretch of it because the trout density is interesting and trout in question are very cooperative despite a rather dark water and the very few insects to emerge or drift dead on the surface.</div>
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Casting a fifteen feet tenkara rod into the river that is about thirty feet wide I easily get "natural" drifts, my short and light tippet makes my kebari drift in a way that must be very convincing because trout decide to come and bite it very quickly.</div>
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After fishing the straight part I arrived in a bend where the stream is very shallow, the water is a little clearer. Satisfied with this outing I was feeling that the time of the last cast had arrived but there is a quiet small area on the right side of the bend behind a big rock. It would be surprising that there is not a trout in that spot. I cast my Yamato kebari who barely has not time to start drifting before a trout takes it. This is a big trout! I am surprised but my hook setting is instinctively made in a very wide move. The stream being very shallow that trout can not even try to swim to anywhere. I let it struggle on the wet gravel.</div>
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This is not a native brown trout, its dress betrays its origin but I noticed that its fins were in excellent condition so it is definitely a trout that survived its introduction in the river and did grow big in there.</div>
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I did raise it gently and released it exactly where I had just got it from. I did spend a few minutes to observe it in its shleter as it was catching its breath quietly. I did collapse my rod back and put back my line on a spool, it was time to go back home. Until the next sunny spell.</div>
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After the first edition of <a href="http://www.tenkara-fest.fr/tenkara-fest-2015/">Tenkara Fest</a> we were determined, <a href="http://roberi1.wix.com/tenkara-languedoc">Eric Robert</a> and myself, to organize this event annually and this year we did chose <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loz%C3%A8re">Lozère</a> for the meeting. Like many tenkara anglers we are members of various social networks and <a href="http://tenkara-fr.forumactif.org/">forums</a>, but we share the opinion that nothing will ever be better than meeting other enthusiasts, or novices, in real life and share some good times together.</div>
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After an about five hundreds and thirty miles drive I arrived in Lozère on the banks of the Alignon stream where I was to meet a young man who had contacted me through this blog and asked me to introduce him to tenkara as he wanted to discover it because as he did tell me it was exactly the image he had of fly fishing. </div>
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It was a pleasure for me to advise that angler who quickly showed good casting skills and also quickly got his first trout with tenkara.</div>
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Then I did join my friends in a cottage located in a place where we had a really spectacular view. My comrades were returning from a great session of successful fishing on a stream stretch located in the nearby village and so we were all in excellent mood and glad to meet each other after a year.</div>
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We spend a great evening in a spirit of sharing and exchange. After this first day we were tired and not long resisted the urge to jump into the arms of Morpheus. Personally after nine hours of driving and two hours of fishing I was literally washed away. The next morning we did wake up at dawn with the singing of a cuckoo, took a quick breakfast before heading down to the banks of the Tarn.</div>
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On this stretch the banks are very steep, the stream is narrow and it was for me a great time to discover it in tandem with my friend Edouard while Guilhem, Eric and Jean-Marc did fish an area downstream. The area we did explore is populated by wild and very discreet brown trout and it was a pleasure to make them bite some of our lures, seeing these trout rush to what they believe to be an insect landing on the water is a lot of fun. When two hours later we walked back towards our starting point we realized that we had not gone about three hundred meters upstream despite our climbing sessions. It was also an opportunity to observe under the bridge from where we observed a beautiful big trout in the tail of a current waiting for food from the upstream.</div>
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The next day we went fishing a few miles away, on the Lot river, but the morning was very cold and very windy, making fishing very difficult although we had the opportunity to observe many trout on the spot where we were.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The sky cleared in the late morning and it is in the shade of a plane tree that we had lunch before being joined by several people with whom we did go fishing a few miles downstream on a beautiful catch and release area. We did make a tenkara fishing session there punctuated with nice catches. I will come back in a few weeks to tell more about this tenkara fishing session.</span><br />
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June has started like May has finished which means cold, temperatures hardly rise up to fifteen celsius but as the week was over I really wanted to visit one of my favorite local streams and check the conditions and perhaps, i.e. probably, fishing it to give the weekend a good start. The area has hopefully escaped the torrential rains of the week. </div>
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The water is still very cold and greyish but once standing on the edge I did see that this cold weather did not interfere a lot with the insects, mainly mayflies and caddis, emerging and flying away regularly. Trout are very discreet, much more than usual at this time of the year but I rigged my <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2015/11/nissin-zerosum-oni-honryu-450-part-1.html">Nissin Zerosum Oni</a> rod and started fishing the spots most likely to shelter some trout that would bite on my <a href="http://tenkaraenso.blogspot.fr/2016/03/yamato-kebari.html">Yamato kebari</a>.</div>
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To fish these shallow spots, not more than a foot deep, I use the current to sink my kebari. Carried by the stream it easily takes a natural drift, different sasoi manipulations can help to make a recalcitrant trout bite. </div>
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Like my previous tenkara outings I could not expect fishing until the evening rise because the temperatures were going to drop, we really are far from the typical June's fishing until complete darkness with high temperature. Fortunately accurate casts, controlled drifts and a little bit of concentration did give very good results. </div>
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Trout adapt to the new spots created by the trees fallen across the stream. Downstream natural drift revealed to be the most effective technique today. </div>
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Downstream fishing with a single fly is a very simple technique and that is why it is so effective. I already had experienced this technique when I was still (western) fly fishing but a tenkara rod drift control is even better. </div>
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There were a good number of trout on the spot created by this submerged tree. </div>
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I finished this nice tenkara outing downstream the pillars of a long disappeared ford oxen where I also did catch some brown trout thanks to the same downstream fishing technique.<br /></div>
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It is a great pleasure to fish with finesse and improving your technique. Rod, line, kebari; it is not only a simple principle but a guarantee of effectiveness. </div>
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After releasing the last trout of this brief tenkara outing I did turn back carefree and happy to have been at the place at the right time. </div>
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