CM Stewart,

Good advise and after reading your post and John's, my mind got to "chewing" on this and the problem where one could possibly lose the rod tip if they tried using their fly rod with line attached to the tip section only. This is just what came up in my thinking: One could take a short piece of old fly line and attach it to their hook keeper on their fly rod and run the short piece of old fly line through the rod guides and leave about 6 inches sticking out the rod tip where one could attach their longer Tenkara style furled leader to the end of the fly line and give it a go. That way there would not be a chance of losing the rod tip section if one should hang into a larger fish. The only "problem" that comes to my mind would be if the weight of the fly line would pull the leader through the rod tip.

Just a thought and the first solution that came to mind. I love a challenge...