Anthony Naples' Tenkara FliesAnthony Naples' Tenkara Flies range from adaptations of classic Japanese tenkara flies to classic American wet flies. Most are flies you won't find anywhere else, and I'm pretty confident they'll put fish on your line. As with all the other flies on TenkaraBum.com, they are tied by a tenkara angler, for tenkara anglers. They are $12 per half dozen. Purchases of one dozen or more flies will be shipped in the Minimalist Fly Box. Anthony Naples Collection
The collection consists of three flies each of the following patterns: Eighteen flies for the price of sixteen. Two sets are available. Anthony Naples Collection - $32 Brown Hackle Peacock
This is Anthony's signature fly and has been his most productive fly for years. It is strikingly similar to a tenkara fly from the Hida Shokawa region. It is also strikingly similar your father's (or possibly even grandfather's) Brown Hackle Peacock. When Anthony first sent me some over a year ago, saying they were his best fly, it brought back a lot of memories. The brown hackle peacock was my father's favorite fly. He would often fish three wet flies at a time, and the brown hackle peacock was almost sure to be one of them. He caught a lot of fish on that fly and I see no reason why you wouldn't too. Size 12.Brown Hackle Peacock (Hida Shokawa) - $12
Results are typical.
Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Sakasa Kebari
Many if not most fly fishermen think of the gold ribbed hare's ear as a nymph pattern, but for a long, long time it was a standard wet fly pattern. Anthony has added the gold ribbed hare's ear body to a sakasa kebari hackle of Hungarian Partridge, and I can assure you that the combination works. Size 12.Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Sakasa Kebari - $12 Black Sakasa Kebari Hare's Ear
Just as buggy as the Gold Ribbed Sakasa Kebari, just a little darker. Size 12.Black Sakasa Kebari Hare's Ear - $12 Gold Minimalist Sakasa Kebari
The impetus for the Minimalist was to create a slim profile sakasa kebari with a segmented bug-like appearance. The wire ribbing adds a bit of weight and the lack of bulk allows the fly to cut through the water and to sink while not being so heavy that it rapidly snags the bottom. The hare's ear collar and reverse-style partridge hackle add a bit of buggy movement. Gold Minimalist Sakasa Kebari - $12 Partridge Caddis Emerger
Although this pattern isn't a copy or adaptation of a recognized regional pattern in Japan, it is a fly you can fish with your tenkara rod, using all the tenkara techniques you know, and catch fish. Whether dead drift, twitched or suspended in the film. Whether caddis flies are on the water or not. It is a buggy looking fly, and buggy looking flies catch fish. And although you can't quite see it in the top photo, the flies have a bit of flash to them. The fish can see it, though, and they seem to approve. Size 12. Caddis Partridge Emerger - $12 Parachute Adams
Parachute dry flies ride low in the water presenting a different silhouette than traditionally-hackled dries. At times this lower profile can be the aspect that fish are keying in on. Some folks suspect that parachute patterns are taken to be emerging insects stuck in the film. Whatever the case, they can be very effective and the Parachute Adams is probably the most popular parachute style. It works on trout all across the country. The Parachute Adams makes a good companion to the traditional Adams. They each present slightly differently and both take plenty of fish. Size 14.Parachute Adams - $12 
Wet Ants
Terrestrials were popularized in the middle part of the last century on Pennsylvania's limestone streams such as the LeTort. The innovative anglers of the time realized that terrestrial insects such as ants, crickets, hoppers and beetles were an important and favored food of trout. Terrestrials are found everywhere and the ant is a favorite of many anglers – trout seem to find ants hard to resist.
This pattern is a wet-fly version of the ant, tied for tenkara style fishing. Borrowing from the Stewart Spider the soft starling hackle brings a lot of enticing movement to the fly when fished dead drift or when twitched. The pattern is available in all black or black and orange. The black and orange version offers a bit of extra attraction to the fly.
Black Ant (wet) - $12 Midges
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