@novacadian: Is the rod primarily used in fresh water? Have been thinking about getting some means of fishing on my boat and really like the compactness your rod offers.
Tenkara Fly Fishing by @cahlen on 3Speak
Tenkara Fly Fishing is a Japanese method which uses an extremely minimalistic setup with only a pole, line and fly. It's perfect for taking with you on backpacking trips. --- DONATE: CONTACT: SUBSC...
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Hey everyone, Cowan here, and in this video, I am finally going to show you my Tenkara fishing rod. So I've had this fly fishing rod for, I think, over 10 years, like, well before I left society, before I quit my job and all that type of stuff. I was using this thing back then out on camping trips with my girlfriend to catch trout to eat. So... I've had it with me this entire time because it always seemed to me like a really important thing to have in case things get bad and I needed to retreat into the wilderness, maybe with other people, and I need to be able to feed myself or the people that I'm with, okay? And the reason why I kept this is because it's extremely minimalistic, okay? This is all there is to it, and you really don't even need this tube here, okay? This tube actually... is much heavier than the fly fishing rod which is in it. And then you just need this little pouch here, which has the few things that you need to fish with, okay? So let's take a look. Well, first of all, I guess I'll tell you what Tinkara fly fishing rod is, okay? So fly fishing rod, obviously, I assume most of you know, but in case you don't, it's, you're basically, you have a lure on the end of your line, which looks like a fly, which floats on the top of the water, which makes... fish think that a fly has landed on the water and it has a little hook in it and they'll eat it, okay? So that's the very basics. If you're familiar with western fly fishing, they generally have a reel, you know, something that you can wind up all over your line, okay? And they're usually going like this and, you know, mocking the, pretending that the flies, you know, flying through the air and then landing on the water and then picking up and then throwing it back again. But when they get a fish on, they can reel it in, okay? A Tinkara fly fishing rod does not have a reel, okay? So these things come from Japan, and it's a traditional fly fishing rod. Here's the, this is wool that it comes in. I got mine from Tinkara, USA. I think they're still around. You just pop it out of this little hole here. And really, this part is all you really need to bring with you. Well, I'll show you the other thing too. As far as the rod, this is all you need, okay? So you just take this thing off here. Let's see. See, basically it's telescoping. Come on, baby. What's going on here? There it goes. Okay. So you have this little... There you go. So you've got that little... I don't know what they call this. It's like a kind of a thick line of some kind. You attach your line to this. It's very simple. I'll show you how to do that. And then it's telescoping, so you've got many different sections. I'll show you all the sections. Okay, we're still going. Still going. All right, so we're at the end here. It's impossible to show you how high this thing is. I see, I'm not even there yet, there we go, okay? This thing is huge, right? And all that, down to this little compact, extremely lightweight, I mean, like, extremely lightweight thing. Very lightweight, you know? Okay, so let's show you the other thing. So it comes with, I think it comes with, I mean, I bought it 10 years ago, I can't remember, maybe you have to buy this separate. okay, this little pouch and inside the pouch, this is the main thing that you need, okay? So this allows you to, first of all, you can store your flies in this little compartment here, and it allows you, so I've already prepared a line, and then I wrapped it in this thing, okay? So this is the part that attaches to that little red line at the end of the pole. an extremely simple way I'll show you that. But then once you've prepared the line, you just roll it up in here, okay? So let's say this is all rolled up, and I'm just going fishing. That's all I need. This is all I need to go fishing, okay? Okay, so I'm not going to tell you, or show you all the knots that you need to know, okay? So first of all, I've got the, this is the tapered... There's different types of line that you can have that attaches right to the pole. This is a braided line. I think they call it the tapered line or something like that. And at the end of it, you're going to have a short amount of line, which is like transparent, thin fishing line, which I believe they call the tippet, and you want it to be, you know, as non-visible as possible because you don't want the fish to see this thing coming off of the fly, that you just want them to see the fly. So you need... The line that attaches the pole, and then you're going to need your tippet line, which is what this is. It's so old, you can't even read what it is, okay? Then, I think this thing also comes with this little, you know, it's for getting the hook out of the fish's mouth. And let's see if there's anything else. Oh yeah, and it comes with this little thing. Okay, it's like fingernail clippers, but not for fingernails. It's when you tie your notch, you're just going to have a little bit of an end coming off, you just need to tip that off there. Okay, so that's what this thing's for. Then I've added a couple of other things. I've got a bunch of hooks, which I don't know. I mean, if I wanted to, like, make my own flies, maybe I could use those. But also, I bought this box of flies separately, and they all would work perfectly well, okay? So anyways, let's show you how to show you how easy it is. Although, it may not be easy to do it on camera, how easy it is to tie this thing, okay? So first of all, one thing you need to be careful of, this, this rod is very strong, it can handle a lot of weight, and it can flex quite a bit, but if you are tying this thing, this is the very thin part, if you're tying right here and you pull this against this right here, it can snap off, okay, so they basically recommend you keep it like this. and you hold it there with your finger when you're doing things. Okay, so to attach this, basically you just take it like this, you bend it down, and then you turn these around, okay, so you've got these little loop here, you stick this thing in the loop, oh no, come back, you stick this thing in the loop, and you pull this thing. Sometimes you can loop the red thing through it one more time just to make it more secure. But really, this is going to hold it pretty well, okay? So you're catching fish up that tiny little, I don't know if you would call that a knot, you know, it's just extremely basic. Okay, so now I'm all set, all I have to do is walk to the fishing place, and I'm going to go do that. But before I do that, I'm going to clip off the... hook on this thing because I don't have a fishing license for where I am, and I don't want to feel myself doing something irregular. Anyways, let's clip that off. Okay, I've got my handy dandy leatherman, and I'm just going to clip off this hook here. Here we go. See? No hook. I'm just practicing, okay? I was told this is totally fine. As far as I know, this is totally fine. Alright, here we are at the water. I'm just going to undo this thing. I'm going to unwind my line. Okay? Now, one of the hardest thing about this is keeping your line from getting caught up on things, especially when there's a hook on it, which wants to grab. So if you don't want to fish around trees or sticks and twigs and stuff like that, okay? You want to try and find a fairly open space, but I'm not too worried about right now because... I don't have a hook to get caught on stuff. So you want to basically start with the smallest one, open it up from the top down. Okay, so now we're ready to go. Just kind of hold on to your line while you're moving around, and you just kind of keep your rod up above your head. and flick it. Okay? And you kind of want to try and keep that transparent line is the only line that's hitting the water, which takes a little bit of practice. Which I'm not that great at. And also, you want to try and get as far out there as possible, which again takes a lot of practice to get the right flicking motion. about pretty far that time. There we go. Okay, then when I'm done, just close it down. And then wrap your line back. and you're done. So I'm not going to keep going until I get a bite because I don't even have a hook to catch the fish with, but you get the general idea. Now I would say probably about two-thirds or maybe even more of the time that I have taken this thing out fishing with the actual intention of catching fish. I have succeeded at catching multiple fish, okay? So this thing definitely works. You don't need... all that expensive fly fishing equipment, although I think this is probably several hundred dollars, but you don't need to carry all that gear with you, you just need this fly, you need this wrapping thing, and you need a couple of flies because you might lose a few. But other than that, that's all you need to take with you, okay? And like I said, this thing's super lightweight and will fit just on the side of your backpack quite easily, okay? So if you're into fishing, or if you're just into eating fish when you're starving to death in the wilderness, might want to check in to getting one of these. So anyways, hope that's useful to you. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later.
@novacadian: Is the rod primarily used in fresh water? Have been thinking about getting some means of fishing on my boat and really like the compactness your rod offers.
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