Danny, I didn't make myself clear. The point I wanted to make was not about tenkara, it was about regulations trying to preserve "fly fishing" rather than preserving the health of the fishery.
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Danny, I didn't make myself clear. The point I wanted to make was not about tenkara, it was about regulations trying to preserve "fly fishing" rather than preserving the health of the fishery.
I...
Agreed.
I've seen studies that suggest barbed vs. barbless has does not have a significant impact on the health of the fishery, but I won't argue the point.
I'm sorry, but I don't see what's wrong with that. They paid the same for their license, why shouldn't they be able to fish the same waters? Whether it is a spin fisherman with a split shot and fly...
If that is what you have read, you have been misinformed. Tenkara fishing very definitely involves casting. The cast is very much like a fly fishing steeple cast, in which your back cast is high and...
I am sure you are correct, and I do not for a minute think the regulations in any state are specifically anti-tenkara.
I do think that many of them are unnecessarily exclusive. It seems to me that...
As GregM wrote, tenkara "line" is analogous to fly fishing "leader." The rods are so supple that many of them will easily cast fifteen feet of 0X fluorocarbon tippet material, to which is attached...