Thread: Tenkara ?

I’ve owned a couple of 6’ telescopic carbon/glass rods for a few years .
I vaguely remember playing around with them when I first bought them .
Originally, bought for micro fishing .
Today I got out one , built up a line for it out of a 6’ section of 2wt fly line . The level reel end . Attached loops at each end and added a 3-4’ tippet .
So with my arm length , I probably had about 12’ of fishing distance.
The whole rod retracts into a compact 15” . I use a leader holder to keep line put away when not fishing .
I spent a couple hours tying up some special flies to try on this lightweight fishing pole .
Off to the town pond for an afternoon tryout since the rain that was predicted held off .
It was a cloudy muggy afternoon.
My first cast drew a strike from a gill about 4-5” , but my first Tenkara fish did the shoreline flop .
On the next cast , I caught a smaller one .
A few minutes later I hooked into one that gave the little rod a nice bend .
Ended up catching eleven of various sizes in the hour plus I spent playing with my Tenkara outfit .
I have a 10’ all glass Tenkara rod on order .
Had a visitor that kept landing on my rod .