Streamside ToolsStreamside tools are almost as important as your rod, your line and your fly. Hemostats to remove hooks from small fish, nippers to trim the tag ends off knots, and a zinger to keep the nippers handy.
If there are small fish in the streams where you fish, you will catch them. When you do, at times you really will need a pair of hemostats to remove the fly from inside the fish's mouth - there just isn't room for your fingers. With bluegills it's even more critical than with trout. There's barely room for the fly, let alone your fingers. Your dentist will tell you not to bite your line. At least, that's what mine told me before (and after - and several times during) the session when she fixed the little half moon chip in one of my front teeth where I always used to bite my line. I now use nippers. I strongly recommend that you do, too. And the zinger, well nippers have to be handy or you'll be tempted to just bite your line. If you keep them in your pocket, they'll fall to the bottom and get tangled up with your car keys or your change, and you really don't want to accidentally pull your keys out of your pocket and drop them in the stream while retrieving your nippers. The zinger keeps the nippers close at hand without being in the way. Probably every angler who was a fly fisherman before discovering tenkara already has these streamside tools, but I've had a number of people ask me to set them up with everything they need, and although I think I can do a pretty good job with their line and flies, before now I couldn't set them up with everything.
I have a few sets of streamside tools packed in a ripple foam fly box - "tools in a box." The set includes hemostats, nippers, a zinger and a fly box. The hemostats are stainless steel, 5 3/8 inches long, the zinger has a plastic coated wire cable that extends about 17 1/2", and the nippers have the cutting blades on one end and a pin on the other that I guarantee you'll never need to clear head cement out of TenkaraBum flies. (The pins are there specifically for flies bought elsewhere.) The fly box is see-through plastic, with a stainless steel hinge, a positive clasp and enough ripple foam in the bottom to hold more flies than any tenkara angler needs. The box measures 7" x 3 7/8" x 1 3/16". I do like the Morell fly box better, but the tools won't fit in it, and this does make a nice kit for someone new to tenkara and new to fly fishing. The Streamside Tools in a box - $17
To buy tools separately:
Daiwa Angled Nippers - $18
Dr. Slick black nippers - $4
Single Zinger - $4
Double Zinger - $5 
20/20 Magnetic Tippet Threader does make threading the tippet through a hook eye easier. 20/20 Magnetic Tippet Threader - $10 
The monoMASTER is a tool that more anglers should use to easily and neatly store used tippet material until it can be disposed of properly. monoMASTER - $15 PaymentPayment is through Paypal but you don't need to have a Paypal account. You can use your credit card. PayPal payments will be made to chris at tenkarabum dot com. Credit card statements will read CM Stewart.ShippingThe individual tools can be shipped domestically for a flat $3. Domestic shipping for the Tools in a Box is $4.For international shipments, everything but the nippers will require an additional $2 for each item (except for the boxes, with will require an additional $3 each. International shipping surcharge - $2 International shipping surcharge for Tools in a Box and Ripple Foam Box - $3 International Priority Mail is slightly faster and anything that can fit in a US Postal Service Small Flat Rate Box (4cm x 13.5cm 21.5cm) or padded envelope (23.5 cm x 30.5cm) can be shipped for a surcharge of $10 to Canada or Mexico and $14 to other countries. Return from Streamside Tools to Tenkara Accessories Return from Streamside Tools to TenkaraBum Home |
That little circle in the middle is a powerful magnet which will hold a fly when you need to change or lenghen your tippet.