Tenkara Books and DVDsTenkara Books and DVDs are still almost as rare as hen's teeth, unless of course you speak Japanese, but I think these books and DVDs will be of interest to tenkara anglers.
Tenkara DVD
-- The Tenkara Fly Fishing DVD - 2009 is the only tenkara DVD in English. Professionally produced by Tenkara USA, it features Dr. Ishigaki's lecture and casting demonstration given at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in May 2009. The DVD also includes a number of videos that can be viewed on the Tenkara USA website, but the casting demonstration Dr. Ishigaki gave in the Catskills is not on their website, and in my view it is worth the price of the DVD all by itself.
tenkara Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing
- This is the only book on tenkara in English. I wish tenkara Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing had been written when I was starting out. Back then, very little information was available in English and the computerized translations of Japanese websites are really not very useful. Dr. Kevin Kelleher and Ms. Misako Ishimura (both tenkara anglers) have written a very good introduction to tenkara for American anglers.
A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park
is a must have for planning your fishing trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. And you do want to fish in RMNP. Lots of perfect tenkara water.
Curtis Creek Manifesto
tells the complete beginner everything he or she needs to know to catch fish. It is a simple book, and would have been even simpler if it had been about tenkara instead of fly fishing. Still, there's a lot of good information for someone just starting out.
The Orvis Guide to Prospecting for Trout
pretty much starts where The Curtis Creek Manifesto leaves off. The Curtis Creek Manifesto will tell you how to catch fish in a stream. The Orvis Guide to Prospecting for Trout tells you not only how, but also where, when and why. The subtitle, "How to Catch Fish When There's No Hatch to Match" suggests that this book is a great resource for tenkara anglers. The chapters on rich streams and poor streams, water reading and wet flies alone are probably worth the price of the book.
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