Tenkara is the traditional Japanese method of fly-fishing, which uses only a rod, line and fly. Simple. Tenkara is a category of fly-fishing particularly well-suited for mountain stream fly fishing and is a great fishing setup for backpacking. It’s a very effective, simple and enjoyable method of fly-fishing mountain streams. History Tenkara has a long history, though little of it is documented. Fly-fishing in Japan is suspected to have been practiced as far back as the 8th or 9th centuries BC The first reference to tenkara fly-fishing was in 1878 in a book called "Diary of climbing [Mt.] Tateyama", a very quick passage describing the sight of someone fishing for yamame at Tateyama. Tenkara was riginally the domain of commercial fishermen in mountain areas of Japan. These anglers used to catch fish for a living; some would camp in isolated mountain streams, then come into the nearby villages to sell dried and fresh fish to inn-keepers; others would catch fish daily and sell them. Though there are a few different theories on the exact origins of tenkara, based on our research we strongly believe tenkara was originally and independently developed by these anglers and not passed on to them by other people. The original tenkara fishermen likely realized they could try to imitate bugs with feathers, silk, etc. At that point they quickly realized the great efficiency of using these flies (kebari) to "harvest" the abundant Yamame in the mountain streams of Japan. As opposed to <b>…</b>
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