First trip with the Suntech Field Master

by Steph
(Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico)

Hi Chris. I just got back from taking the Suntech Field Master you sold me out for the first time. I went ten miles down the road from my house to the Peñasco River - a spring-fed creek (although anything that flows year-round here gets called a river) in Southern New Mexico. I was concerned that I was trespassing, so didn't stay very long, but in the short time I was there I landed a beautiful 11-inch wild Brown on my version of the Utah Killer Bug. This was in spite of my lousy casting as I started learning how to cast for Tenkara. I think I'm hooked!

I'm especially stoked because when I got home, I called New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to ask about the conflicting signs that made me think I might be trespassing, and discovered that the licensed public has access to over a mile of the creek through an "open gate" policy. I thought it was only a few tenths of a mile! Moral of the story: Don't just rely on your Game and Fish department's website. Talk to someone in the know. I'd have never found out about the fishing boundaries from the website because it was buried in the hunting pages.

Next time, I'll stay longer and take the camera!

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.

Seriously, all the hooks sold on TenkaraBum.com, whether packaged as loose hooks or incorporated into flies, are sharp - or as Daiichi says on their hook packages, Dangerously Sharp. Some have barbs, which make removal from skin, eyes or clothing difficult. Wear eye protection. Wear a broad-brimmed hat. If you fish with or around children, bend down all hook barbs and make sure the children wear eye protection and broad-brimmed hats. Be aware of your back cast so no one gets hooked.

Also, all the rods sold on TenkaraBum.com will conduct electricity. Do not, under any circumstances, fish during a thunder storm. Consider any fishing rod to be a lightning rod! Fishing rods can and do get hit by lightning!