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A complete book covering the history, the technique and a How To section on making Tenkara flies, and making your own furled lines. Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to focus on the actual fishing and catching them, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment.
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One man and his rod
Tenkara Fishing in Dorset
By John R S Allen
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eBook First Published in 2013 by Autharium Publishing, London Copyright John RS Allen 2013. The moral right of John RS Allen to be asserted as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN-13: 978-1497449602
ISBN-10: 149744960X
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Foreword
The popularity of the traditional Japanese method of fly-fishing, known as Tenkara, is increasing rapidly worldwide. Tenkara, literally meaning from heaven, is a style of pole and line fishing that is in itself simple, relatively inexpensive and most of all fun. It combines all the skills of fly-fishing and fly-tying without the need for a conventional fly rod. With the right Tenkara rod, fishing for most of the UK species of river fish is possible.
For those who do not know, a Tenkara rod is similar to a fishing pole. Traditionally rods were bamboo and one piece of around 3.3 metres (11 ft) to 4.5m (15 ft) in length, with a hand furled line and a thinner tippet line to the fly. This line can total up to 1.5m longer than the rod length itself. Modern versions of this rod are made from glass and/or carbon fibre; they are often telescopic and of anything from six to ten sections. Bamboo and split cane versions are available, and come in one piece or in sections similar to modern rods.
Tenkara fishing can be seen as the streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, and not for any major preoccupation with conventional rods and reels like western fishing. Only a rod, Tenkara line, tippet and fly are necessary for Tenkara fishing, no reel is ever used.
A Japanese advert for Tenkara rods.
The rods start from as little 50 and go up to 500, so there is a rod to suit most peoples pockets.
This was not intended to be a How To book, as there are plenty of good books available on the subject of how to start fishing Tenkara style, but the How To aspect crept in while trying to give some background information that will be handy for you to see why I have chosen to use Tenkara in the UK.
Long pole fishing started in Egypt around two thousand years ago. Over the centuries almost every culture had some version of it, all using some form of natural bait and a hook to catch fish. By the thirteenth century the first crude reels were starting to appear, but long pole and fixed line (no reel) fishing remained. Maybe because all you needed was to cut a suitable piece of bamboo, or limb from a tree, to have a rod. Some cultures, however, adopted using just a long line and hand drawing it on the retrieve, so there was no need then to make or carry a rod. Other cultures developed nets to harvest the fish, others spears.
Tenkara fishing originated in Japan some two hundred years ago as an evolution of long pole fishing, with fishermen fishing the mountain streams and lakes using artificial bait, a mock fly or an insect disguising the hook. It was soon found to be a very effective method of catching the local fish such as salmon, trout and char and the development of this unique fly began.
The first reference to Tenkara fly-fishing in western literature was in 1878 in a book called Diary of climbing Mt. Tateyama by British diplomat, then resident in Japan, Ernest Mason Satow. Satow was also a keen angler, fishing both fly and Tenkara styles on his travels. By comparison, little was known about western fly-fishing until The Treatyse on Fysshynge wyth an Angle was published (1496) within The Boke of Saint Albans attributed to Dame Juliana Berners. The book contains instructions on rod, line and hook making, plus dressings for different flies to use at different times of the year. Later and probably better known references can be found in Izaak Walton's book, The Compleat Angler (1653).
The appeal of Tenkara is its elegant simplicity. There are also other advantages of using the long Tenkara rods when fishing in mountain streams and lakes. Primarily the lightness of the line, delicate presentation and the long rod allow for both the precise placement of the fly on small pools and for holding the fly in place on the other side of a current. The other main advantage of using the long Tenkara rod is precise control for manipulation of the fly.
A very long, flexible rod, normally ranging from 3.3m to 4.5m (11ft to 15ft) in length. These rods were originally made of bamboo or split cane.
A traditional Tenkara bamboo rod, 4.5m (15ft) long.
They also may have a handle similar to that of a fly-fishing rod, sometimes made of wood as on the more prized rods or cork/foam for the cheaper or more modern rods.
Examples of a hand carved wooden handle and a cheaper cork handle.
Most modern Tenkara rods are made from carbon and/or glass fibre, and are telescopic for ease of transportation.
A typical eight section telescopic Tenkara rod.
Tenkara rods are not grouped by line weight like fly rods but instead they are grouped by a bend rating such as 5:5, 6:4, 7:3 and 8:2. Tenkara rods all have soft tip sections and much stiffer butt sections. The ratings give an idea of where the softer sections transition into the stiffer sections. It is not as simple as six sections are stiff and four are soft, because not all Tenkara rods have ten sections. It is more like a percentage split over the length, like 60/40 (sixty percent of the rod length is stiffer and forty percent is softer).
If you have ever taken a rod and just wiggled it, you will have seen the butt section move to the left while the tip moves to the right, then the butt moves to the right and the tip moves to the left. There is a point on the rod that is stationary: the point where the tip section goes one way and the butt section goes the other. On an 8:2 rod, that point is closer to the rod tip than on a 6:4 rod, and it is closer to the tip on a 6:4 rod than on a 5:5 rod.
Unfortunately, the rating system is of little use to rod buyers as not all Tenkara rod manufacturers use it, and among those that do there is no real consistency. A 7:3 rod from one manufacturer can be very different from a 7:3 produced by another manufacturer. So only take the rating as a rough indication and not fact. Some manufacturers resort to naming the rod to indicate its type.
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