MODERN TENKARA, BOOK BY HIROMICHI FUJI

[toneman]

Does anyone know if this book is available in English? The

[flatsghost]

Mark
As the title is in English then I suspect that it probably is. Do a search on line and see what comes up or try a fishing bookseller such as
Coch y Bonddu or abe books. As you have the title and author you should find it somewhere.
Good luck
Glyn

[dbl]

I'm not sure if this blog was the source of your interest. If not, this link may be useful.
tenkaraenso.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/modern-tenkara-book-by-horimichi-fuji.html
I think the book may only be in Japanese, and the translation in the blog just of the sections discussed there. However, it seems to have a large number of fascinating diagrams which are almost self-explanatory!
John Vetterli, shown with the book's author in the blog post, regularly corresponds on the Tenkara Fisher blog/forum. (www.tenkara-fisher.com/) so, if you join that, you could ask him about it. Alternatively, Chistophe Laurent of Tenkaraenso would probably respond to a question posted on his blog.

[flatsghost]

So Mark, did you manage to find out what the situation is about the book?
Glyn

[toneman]

No apparently only available in Japanese. There is also fishing politics involved. Difference of opinion between " masters "
Level lines verses furled. I have enough to do getting line where & when I want it& if there are fish there that's a bonus.!

[toneman]

Not meant to be poetic reply! Should be "versus "
lol
M

[flatsghost]

Thanks Mark.
Politics in fishing?? What next. As far as level versus furled then it level every time for me. I ,do not like the way furled leaders shed a spray of water when you cast after picking up. I try and false cast away from the target area to avoid this if poss.
Tight lines
Glyn

[dbl]

I remember noticing that photos of Dr Ishigaki fishng show him wearing some kind of a logo on his jacket promoting Level Line. Then the argument seems to be between copolymer and fluorocarbon. Tenkara Centre and Dave Southall favoured copolymer, but I'm not sure if Daves is still of that opinion.
Fluoro does cause problems, at least for me, when you are fishing with a dry fly. A greased furled leader will float, but a fluoro level line starts to sink and then starts to drown the fly after a very short time. If anyone has a solution to that, I'd be interested to hear about it! Quite pertinent when grayling fishing at this time of the year.

[dbl]

Partly answering my own question here! Jason Klass has this review of a tenkara floating level line:
www.tenkaratalk.com/2015/11/three-rivers-tenkara-floating-line/
" Enter the new level floating line from Three Rivers Tenkara.
This line is kind of a hybrid between a thick, floating PVC line and a thin, light fluorocarbon level line. It’s got a mono core, but is coated with a floating finish for a true, floating line, with all the advantages of a fluorocarbon line. It’s thin and light, allowing you to make very delicate casts, yet the coating adds just enough extra mass to load the rod well (without overpowering it or causing line sag like a PVC line).
It’s a great line for dry fly fishing, or any time you need to lay the line down on the surface and not have it sink."
Worth a punt?

[paul1966]

I fish the dry fly a lot, I've tried furled lines and the Mono tapered lines they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Towards the end of last season I had great success fishing a short heavy fluoro line 4# or 5# about 8ft but increased the length of my mono tippet to about 5ft. I found the control with this set up great very little drag and easy to cast, I was holding about 10 to 12 inchs of greased tippet on the surface no need for the main line to be anywhere near the water. I picked up a number of sea trout using this method when everyone else was struggling using all methods.

I found this out by accident I like fishing the killer bug with a short line and long tippet, I find it sinks quicker. If I change to dry I would normally swap for a longer lighter level line or furled line but on this particular day I couldn't be bothered so just tied the dry on and had instant success.

[Paul G]

A few tips for what they may be worth:

For the bulk of level line fishing - fluorocarbon works best due to its superior casting performance.

There is a very specialised application for level nylon (if you have an excellent tenkara casting stroke and only when there is no wind). Without getting too off topic, it involves being able to drift a fly along a straighter path (our friend Kura-san is a great exponent of this tactic)

For when you need to lay some casting line on the surface (either because your rod tip is obstructed overhead or for maximum reach when you can't use either wind or water currents to help) then the Fujino tapered nylon lines are terrific.

In reference to all the above - if you are fishing a casting line that is shorter than the rod and holding the rod tip pretty much above where the fly will fish (with all the line and tippet off the water) - it virtually makes no difference what your line is made of. You can get gravity to "turn over" any old line as it falls down off your rod tip

If you want to expand the types and sizes of water that you can cover, then your casting stroke and the the material whose properties best match the presentation you are trying to achieve become increasingly important.

For the record, I haven't found any practical fishing functions in which a furled line outperforms other lines. I do, however, enjoy fishing furled nylon or furled horse-hair simply as a nod to tradition and aesthetics (particularly when fishing a cane tenkara rod).

The core/pvc fly lines I do not like for use with a tenkara rod (#4 and #4.5 fluoro provides comparable wind-beating casting performance and will float well enough with a coating of payette paste - while the tapered mono lines are far better and more delicate for fishing "western style" dry fly with a tenkara rod.

I also don't like the titanium lines for windy conditions. Ideally, tenkara should use the wind rather than try to batter through it (on the occasions where you simply have to work against wind, then heavier fluorocarbon is more than sufficient).

As ever, if you are having fun doing what you do (and it is different from the above); keep doing it. I just offer the above advice having spent a lot of time and money comparing and contrasting things the hard way - so it might save you some time and grief