Carp!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0wsMWLpSg

This will open the eyes of a few people who think the rods are only capable of handling small fish in small streams!

Interesting video, for sure!
I would have liked to have seen how the fly was presented to the carp.
And...this comment has nothing to do with Tenkara, but I think I'd have to kill the dude dancing around. ;) He gets and "A" for excitement....but he kept wanting to grab the line, which is a HUGE no-no! I think guys see salt water anglers grabbing the bite tippets on big bluewater fish, and think that is what you are supposed to do. In any other situation, that's a recipe for broken lines and lost fish!

I caught a carp once and a vietnamese dude kept trying to grab it everytime I would get it to shore and each time the carp would get back into my backing. It took me 30 minutes to get him in.

I thought for sure the young man was going to wet his pants. Very cool video. But he wouldn't be grabbing the tippet, don't tenkara use like 10' to 12' Leaders/line in which you *** a couple feet of tippet? If so then he was basically reaching for the line. I sort of get that as the rod is so long and light he was not going to be able to lift the fish to the shore. But then out of no where comes a net....hummmm what a concept. LOL
Thanks for sharing this though.

A nice looking carp Chris, I don't speak Italian so I do not know what comments were
being made, but here in Scotland, very short shrift is given to people who interfere
with someone else's fish. He also buggered about to much with the fish when it
was landed. Still it proves the point, Tenkara rods can handle pretty big fish.

Here another Carp video. They are using spin gear but, WOW the size. Upper 20's and 30's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcsM...eature=related

Grabbing the line is actually quite common when fishing with a tenkara rod. Although most people use a line about the length of the rod, to which they'll add 3-4' of tippet, some use longer lines. The longer lines tend to be the 1.5 times rod length that was also used with the English loop rods 150-200 years ago.

Even with a line the length of the rod (not counting the extra 3-4' of tippet), you will have to hand line the last few feet unless the fish is quite small. The rod bends so much, particularly with a large fish, that you cannot possibly net it otherwise.

As in everything else, there is a trick to it. It has to be done in one motion that is smooth enough and quick enough that the fish cannot turn it's head to start another run. If it manages to do that you have to immediately let go of the line and start again, timing it for when you can get the fish coming directly towards you by angling the rod back over your shoulder.

You absolutely do not have to tire a fish to exhaustion to do that. My best fish on a tenkara rod was an 18 3/4" wild brown that was in the net in less than a minute from the strike.

The man taking the video was actually telling the young bloke not to touch the line and let the rod do the work. He had to say it several times as the young man was so excited. Inturn the young fella was concerned that he was using a Tenkara rod to bring in a big Carp as it might break. Thanks for sharing.

I think the "young fella" was concerned because it was his rod, and that particular rod is both expensive and not readily available. Nice rod, though.

That was a leather carp, too. Nice!

If you look at the comments, he says he was using .12mm flourocarbon. That's about 2# line!