Kurenai works well!

by Martin
(okieflier@att.net)

I bought the Kurenai HM33R for my wife while at the Sowbug Roundup in Mountain Home, AR from Chris. We were in Wisconsin last week fishing off a small dock on the south side of Lake Mason. She wanted to test her new Tenkara rod and caught this Golden Smelt with a grey killer bug I made. She caught a bunch of bluegill and one looked like 13" large mouth bass with the Kurenai and killer bug combo in about a hour and a half fishing. I obviously won't be able to wrestle this rod from her. It has great action and is very light so is not tiring like her regular fly rod.

“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!