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As entrancing and addictive as the sport of fly fishing can be, the very idea of it has the opposite effect on some people, who feel it’s too complicated, too technical and too difficult. Anyone ...

CROOKED CREEK, Ark. — Misako Ishimura waded knee deep into the current, the water temperature perfect for both swimming and soothing relief from the afternoon sun. But Ishimura, 58, had other things ...

Anglers interested in starting or upgrading their Tenkara fly fishing rod and reel may be interested in a new piece of kit launched via Kickstarter in the form of the Kita Japanese Tenkara fly fishing ...

The clear water of Quartz Creek runs over my wading boots, the Alaska sun bright in a sky of crystal blue. Mountains, impossibly green and rich from the long summer hours of daylight, chew the horizon ...

Calming. According to Frank Young, a junior from Springville, Utah, that's what fishing should be. As a frequent fisherman on the Provo River, Young enjoys the opportunity to get out of the house and ...

Everybody is in search of some simplicity in life, but perhaps nobody searches harder for it than the fly fisherman. So it's no small wonder why tenkara, the most simplistic form of fly-fishing, has ...

For the month of March, photographer John Rountree is exploring the many aspects of fishing in Western North Carolina’s rivers. John Miko is a tenkara evangelist. He fishes the rivers and streams with ...

In a sport as resistant to change as fly-fishing, tenkara is a revolution. Actually a counterrevolution, since its stripped-down, minimalist aesthetic harks back to the earliest days of angling with ...

Tenkara rods are a modern take on a traditional form of Japanese fly fishing. The entire system consists of a long rod, a leader, tippet, and a fly. In many aspects, it embodies the purest form of ...