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No question, you are not going to be making 40-60' casts with a tenkara rod.
I understand those reasons, too, but they certainly make it sound more limiting than it is. Other reasons would be:
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Byron,

The biggest difference is that the tenkara line is so much lighter than any fly line. You can keep a lot more of it off the water's surface, so don't have to fish almost under your rod tip....

I answered the hackle question in your other thread (I saw that one before this one).

I fish small woodland streams, too. Trees and brush right up to the banks, overhanging tree limbs in spots. I...