Through the company he created in 2009 and moved to Boulder last year, the Brazilian-born 30-year-old has dedicated himself to spreading the simplicity of tenkara fly-fishing beyond its native ...

That’s why Tenkara has emerged as an alternative. This Japanese style of fly fishing is simplicity itself: there’s a telescopic rod, a line that fastens onto the tip of the rod, a small piece ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tenkara history can be traced back more than 400 years, when Japanese anglers caught cherry trout with unsplit bamboo rods tipped with horsehair lines tied to simple fly patterns.

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Matt Shipp of River Falls, Wis., fishes for trout Tenkara-style on the Kinnickinnic River Monday, June 1, 2015. Tenkara is a traditional Japanese method using a fly attached to a long rod with no ...

So it’s no small wonder why tenkara, the most simplistic form of fly-fishing, has been catching on so fast. “It’s so simple,” West Yellowstone, Mont., fly fisherman Craig Mathews said.

Tenkara shows us there is a different way of thinking about fly-fishing – and often about life too. It shows us we can leave the unnecessary behind. But, we must choose to do so.