Fly-fishing aficionado and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard leads a class of brand-new fly-fishermen (and women) in how to cast with the company’s Tenkara rod. I was 20 minutes late. Los Angeles ...

Daniel Galhardo, John Gierach and I are standing on a remote branch of the St. Vrain Creek with 12-foot-long fly rods in our hands. But I should qualify my usage of the word “fly” rod. We are indeed ...

Tenkara is a Japanese fly fishing that strips things down to their most simple. One fly. One rod. Sam Vanderbeek uses a Tenkara rod while fly-fishing in the Oregon coast range. All responsibility lies ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARSHALL — The fact that Daniel Galhardo has fly-fished for more than four years now without a reel, weighted fly line, leader, split shot or strike ...

Calming. According to Frank Young, a junior from Springville, Utah, that's what fishing should be. As a frequent fisherman on the Provo River, Young enjoys the opportunity to get out of the house and ...

Everybody is in search of some simplicity in life, but perhaps nobody searches harder for it than the fly fisherman. So it's no small wonder why tenkara, the most simplistic form of fly-fishing, has ...

Rob Lepczyk hadn’t been in the Gunpowder River for more than five minutes on a late September morning before he felt a tug on his line. The 26-year-old Sparks resident yanked at the long rod before ...

Daniel Galhardo, author of the book "Tenkara." best times to fly fish in Colorado, since insects are hatching and are swarming rivers and creeks. That provides ample food for fish. Author Daniel ...

As entrancing and addictive as the sport of fly fishing can be, the very idea of it has the opposite effect on some people, who feel it’s too complicated, too technical and too difficult. Anyone ...