Study Buddies / Tenkara fly fishing

Hi Gordy,

I think your ?Study Buddy? concept is a good and important one.

Along that same line, what I?d like to know is if there are any Masters in the New England area willing to work with me to gain more ?on-the-water? experience, possibly as ?Master Fishing Buddies?. Masters willing to share their talent to help familiarize me with the required casts, fishing tips & techniques, etc. I realize that ALL fishing experience helps, but fishing with a Master would add a different and valuable perspective. Fresh and saltwater desired.

If there are any Masters willing to help, they may contact me directly at Ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ralph Tomaccio, CCI

Bellingham MA

508-883-3799

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Ralph... Good idea. However, this is not really the same thing as having someone with the same goals and trepidations as you have to study with and share ideas.

Gordy

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TENKARA FLY FISHING

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From Bryan Nims :

Gordy, I stumbled on to this Tenkara site today

www.tenkarausa.com/video.php

Probably not a subject we would need to be too familiar with for the

Masters' exam, but, good to know about this style of flyfishing that has

been around for a long time. A Master might want to be able to

differentiate from western style and be able to point out the advantages and

disadvantages to students. The site has some excellent video's and a very

good overview of Tenkara. You might even see some familiar faces..

Sincerely,

Bryan Nims

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I did have trouble activating the site, above due to a one letter typo ... now corrected. Then Bryan helped with this second message :-

Gordy,

Try just keying the following into your browser:

www.tenkarausa.com/about.php

If you get to the website, click on the galleries and you should get a

choice for videos.

You should also be able to get it by entering www.tenkarausa.com in your

browser.

If that does not work, go to Google and do a search on Tenkara Fly Fishing

and you should find it.

The videos are really spectacular! I had "Tenkara" misspelled in the

subject line of my original message to you which my have mislead you..

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In case any of you have trouble accessing this, I have placed the whole thing in an attachment.

Back in 1938 I was fly fishing for brookies with my grandfather on a small Catskill freestone stream. He had been using his outfit in the salt and his reel was corroded so badly it was jammed. He was able to pull out about a rod length of line ... no more.

Using a technique similar to Tenkara, he proceeded to catch several nice brookies on a dry fly. Of course, these fish were small and not capable of significant runs. Of course, we knew nothing of the Japanese technique .... in fact Bryan's message was my first introduction to the term.

This would be a great way to get a short to medium drag free drift at short range for a dry fly, especially since the fly line itself doesn't need to be in the water at all !

During WWII, we were unable to purchase metal fly reels (except for the "pre-war" ones which we couldn't afford.) My father taught me to make a "trout reel" with the line hand by collecting the line using a figure-of-eight palming method. With lots of practice, he was even able to have a large trout run against a palmed "hand-drag". Even today, I use that technique when fly fishing for pan fish, etc.

Gordy

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