Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARSHALL — The fact that Daniel Galhardo has fly-fished for more than four years now without a reel, weighted fly line, leader, split shot or strike ...

EAGLE — It has been 2 1/2 years now since legendary fly-caster and prominent fly-fishing authority Lefty Kreh declared the ancient Japanese method of tenkara fishing a ” fad” here in the U.S. And it’s ...

An ancient Japanese fishing technique — tenkara — is becoming increasingly popular in the back country of the United States. Tenkara, which means heaven or from the skies in Japanese, originated with ...

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 ...

When Jason Konopinski gets into something, he really gets into it. That might explain why he owns six tenkara fly-fishing rods, at least two of which are in his car at any given time. Tenkara, an ...

Fly fishermen tend to be their own breed of anglers. However, the ancient Japanese art of tenkara is gaining momentum in the U.S. and showing that there is simplistic room for improvement in ...

Six years ago, I had newly discovered the tenkara approach to fly-fishing, and I was eager to get into more wilderness areas to try it out. I had been in and around wilderness most of my life, but I ...

Tenkara tackle still makes people stare, but now it’s drawing stares on multiple continents. The telescoping, 12-foot fly rods with 13-foot lines affixed to their tips — no reels, no guides — have ...

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 ...