I went fishing again last night and, as it was getting late, decided to use the tenkara rod instead of the hera rod. With the hera rod the strike indicator would have been out of sight but with the shorter tenkara rod I could just barely see it. I ended up catching three trout on exactly the same setup I had been using with the hera rod. The hera rod and tenkara rod handled the rig just about the same. The moves and casts that work with one work with the other with little modification other than allowing for the differences in length.