What Was Your First Tenkara Fish?

Attachment 7756It was a great day, a little windy but, I caught my first fish on my Tenkara rod. It is a five or six inch black crappie from Lake Delaware, Ft. Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, IN. What was your first Tenkara fish?

I guess my first was a Bow. But I have caught many since then. Bows, browns, a few goldens several sub of cutts. Went out today and caught about eight. Last week was a great day 30 all on a dry.

... on Brushy Fork Creek in Northern Idaho last July.

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Lots of days fishing with a Tenkara rod since, on quite a variety of water in Idaho and Montana, catching bunches of trouts ranging up to 17".

John

My first fixed-length-line fish was a trout (quickly followed by alot of his brothers and sisters) on the Muskegon River in lower Michigan. It was caught on a South Bend Black Beauty using a furled line. I was hooked. For some reason, when I stop think to notice, I almost always have a smile on my face when fishing with a Tenkara set up. It is just plain fun.

A wild brown trout on my first Tenkara outing last year on about my third cast with a soft hackle version of a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear! Coincidentially I was fishing with a furled line, compliments of John Scott at the time.

Since that time I have caught many trout, some sunfish, a few bass and a crappie or two. I also haven't fished with conventional fly tackle since last November. :shock:

With a little luck I will be taking the Tenkara out for a spin on a wild trout stream in about an hour! ;)

Mine was a bluegill, last May. I tied up a hares ear and figured I would do it tenkara-style with reverse hackle. The bluegill at a local lake liked it, so I tried it on trout. They liked it too, and since then I haven't fished with a regular fly rod, and have only fished reverse hackle flies. So far I've caught some bluegill, lots of rainbows, several browns, and a couple of largemouth bass. Same rod, same fly.

I caught & landed a nice little brown from the South Platte as my first fish with Tenkara (a few minutes before I did a long distance release on a rainbow that pushed 18"). I think it was also my first trout of the year caught on a dry.

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I've been out once so far this season with the Tenkara rod and that was to instruct my girl friend on the joys of fly fishing using Tenkara. Unfortunately no fish, we were skunked but we both had a very enjoyable day and alot of fun. To me thats what its all about and by the way, my girl friend loved the experience and can't wait till we go out next time :)

I finally got my first fish on tenkara. It was a rainbow which was followed by a couple more. It was also the first time I caught trout in the dark.