In the last couple of decades, fly-fishing seems to have grown more and more complicated. And keeping pace with that also more and more expensive, more and more stressful and such. It threatens to turn fishing into an industry rather than a hobby, marked by the necessity of complex, expensive gear that the modern angler cannot do without. Technology has been an aide to this, overshadowing what should be the simple motion of making your cast, landing your fly and hooking a fish - though now increasingly with a guide along as a necessary evil. Gone is the simple pleasure of hooking a fish, thanks to the fly you tied yourself, with compliments of your cast.
There are some ways that fishing can return to what it was. One comes from Japan. Tenkara, a Japanese style and technique of fly-fishing, characterized by being as simple and direct as possible. Just a hook and a tippet, attached to a thin, light line that is fixed to a flexible, durable rod without the reel. It allows for a gratifying throw, landing the fly directly in, and perhaps best of all, to some, it is affordable. The keywords, apart from affordable, is flexible, synthetic, light-weight, easy and small of size. All of those are advantages granted to the fisherman, the gifts of tenkara.
The philosophy of tenkara is to make fishing simple, stress-free, allowing contemplation and relaxation. Not dependent on guides or heavy equipment that is a must-have to be able to fish with flies. It allows you to turn your attention inwards, not always outwards. Look down into the water and see yourself reflected in its mirror image, not be bothered by lines getting entangled in reeds. Breathe the free air and enjoy the silence that only nature can bring in this postmodern, over-technological world. By ridding your fishing of over-technological complications, and using tenkara instead, you will have taken a step towards ridding your life of complications too. It is part of the Japanese philosophy that permeates tenkara. All things are directly connected. Fly, line, rod, your hands holding it and feeling every tremor; just as fishing is part of your life, and thereby connected to the rest of it. Or if you want to turn to a Western sage, Aristotle explained how you cannot merely break down the components and treat them separately: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." Sure, The Tenkara Times comes: http://www.tenkaratimes.co.uk.
I fished with fly without the reel before I began to do it with the reel. Once I found the description of tenkara fishing style in web. Since that moment it became my best fishing practice. I fish tenkara only anywhere and anytime. Being the tenkara apologist, I've started The Tenkara Times for all European tenkara enthusiasts and newbies.
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