Tenkara

[JohnScott]

Recently, a BB member inquired whether, a year later, Tenkara rods and fishing have continued to be a part of my fly angling experience.



While I spent more time this summer on bigger water, when I got on the smaller streams, I went with a Tenkara rod as often as conventional fly rods.



I fished this Montana backcountry creek last year with a Tenkara rod, and again this past October. The last time out was with an October Caddis.



Not long after catching this little guy, I had on and played almost to hand and close enough to get a good look at this Yellowstone Cutt, which I had caught ten days earlier on an FEB Hopper while fishing with my Hexagraph rod.



This is the largest trout I've had on a Tenkara - just about 20". I played him a bit conservatively because I was fishing the Tenkara, which is probably why I lost him just before landing him. Nevertheless, it was really exciting to see him come up in almost exactly the same spot and put up the same fight a second time and to ( almost ) handle him on the Tenkara.

John