Well I have finally started fishing with my Tenkara-Fishing 10' rod. I am just amazed at how light it feels in the hand. I am also sorry that I did not start fishing with it earlier. The 10 ft furled cutthroat leader I got with the rod seems heavy for it but it does handle the tenkara bum hi-viz size 4 line real nice. I have been using 15 ft Hi-Viz plus 3 ft tippet. No problems casting from shore. This little rod also has plenty of backbone to handle bass around 20 inches as long as you can stay out of the weeds, brush, and can net the fish. Otherwise you tippet will break. I have been fishing more traditional tenkara flies and the gills, green sunfish, other pan fish have been loving it. Here are a couple of the larger ones from today.