How many of you have heard of "TENKARAU"? I hadn’t until looking around a furled leader forum. It seems the perfect method for small river fishing. Maybe not for the perfectionist but a very, very old fishing method from Japan. Have a look at the link below. What do you think about this method, could it catch on here? A few of our club members have already ordered their rods!

http://www.tenkarausa.com/index.php

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pole fishing with a fly then...

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Just the same as Czech Nymphing or high sticking?

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You took the words out of my mouth Alyn.

they are merely whips with or without a cork handle ,you can get a whip for about £10 these days that will do the job ,and the flies $8 nearly for 3,and $19 for a furled leader someones seen the yanks coming ,they arnt vietnamese are they !!!!

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New?

A method I'm sure Dame Juliana Berners would have been very familiar with.

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Looks very similar to dapping to my mind ...

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Wot a load of S***,

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it was around centuries before dame juliana, there is a new craze for it, cant quite figure why its getting ridiculed, it predates fly fishing as we know it, as said, not far off dapping one of the original european methods, its just a simple old method thats been kept alive by Japanese tradition, bit like chalkstream tradition is here.

It's fly fishing. You can Czech nymph, you can high stick, you can dap. You can cast an emerger to rising trout. You can fish upstream spiders. You can fish across tricky currents with only your fly and a foot of tippet in the water. It's just a very long, very sensitive rod and a very light fixed line. We don't have whips over here, but the telescopic graphite or fiberglass crappie rods we do have, which are the closest things we have to whips, are not nearly as sensitive and cannot cast as light a line. Whips are designed to cast a float, shot and bait. Tenkara rods are designed to cast unweighted flies. They are not going to be the same.

I'm not at all sure it's a new craze, it's just that a company recently formed to import tenkara rods into the US, where they had been unavailable. A couple magazines picked up their press release, and some of the blogs have commented on it. People on the forums ask if anyone's tried it, and a bunch of people who haven't say "It's just like _______." Dame Juliana would recognize it, but she'd say whatever the Middle English equivalent is of "Holy sh_t, how did you do that? I can't do that with my rod."

But to answer your questions, I've not only heard of it I've been doing it for over a year now, I absolutely love it, and I don't see why it couldn't catch on there.