Thanks so much for your hint! I sent an email to them, let's see what they say. I also asked about how the original yarn relates to the stuff they are selling on their website... I'll report back. :-)
Quick question, folks: I used to be able to buy Lafontaine's yarn at his website (www.bookmailer.com), but it looks like the site has been deprecated (I don't know since when, last time I bought yarn was a few years ago). Anyone knows if they moved it somewhere else? Any other reliable place to...
In mid-May my wife and I will be celebrating our 18th anniversary. We love backpacking and we do it a lot in Summer around the Cascades on the western part of the state, so we would like to use the anniversary excuse to start backpacking earlier this year and drive east hoping for better camping...
I am happy to meet up and show you the things I know. Nowadays there are so many videos in YouTube that you can learn almost anything by watching, but if you rather have someone explaining things to you face to face, we can meet up. I live in Sammamish. You’ll have to deal with my Spanish...
I have never used tenjo-like lines, something new to experiment with. I tend to use thin leveled lines, number 3 or so, but I hate how much they kink when you store them when collapsing the rod, so for exploring new waters where you are constantly moving along the river I like braided lines. I...
I don’t have experience with the TB traveler, but considering Chris’s experience and the brand he is using to base his rods on, I am sure it is a very good rod. I have asked Chris a lot of questions via email all throughout these years and his answers were always spot on. The guy knows his...
I don't know, man... I just don't get the stinger thing. I friend of mine used it for some days last year and he said it was cool, but then he lost a couple of big fish because of the inability to let them run, and also because of the fact that a traditional fly fishing rod does not flex as much...
Hey Jared,
I have been fishing tenkara since 2013, and I even did a year of only tenkara fishing. I wrote some posts in the "other" forum back in the day with my lessons learned. I fish the same rivers you do, and I always have a tenkara rod with me in the river- either in my hand or in my...