Post by cm_stewart on Oct 25, 2011 12:43:54 GMT
I recently bought the Essential Skills with Oliver Edwards DVD on Wet Fly Fishing in Rivers. I was thinking of stocking it but wanted to watch it first to see if it would be of interest to tenkara anglers.
My thought was that a lot of new tenkara anglers might be fishing wet flies for the first time, having concentrated on dries or nymphs with Western fly fishing (although I suppose that might be more true in the US than in the UK). Some new tenkara anglers have never fly fished before so it would certainly be new to them. Wet fly fishing in the US is almost exclusively done "down and across" and I would bet that many anglers here have no idea that it can be done any other way.
In any event, when I watched the upstream fishing section of the DVD, I was very surprised that watching Oliver Edwards fishing spiders upstream was almost exactly the same as watching Dr. Ishigaki fishing sakasa kebari upstream. The biggest difference was that Dr. Ishigaki keeps his rod tip higher and is much more successful in keeping his line off the water.
It would be presumptuous of me to offer fishing advice to Oliver Edwards, but I kept thinking when watching him fish upstream that it would be so much easier for him if he had a longer rod and lighter line than his 9 foot 4 weight! Even the points he made about how it should be done suggest that a longer rod and lighter line would be more effective. I would think a tenkara rod would be absolutely ideal for upstream spiders.
Most of the comments I've read from UK tenkara anglers, or at least what sticks in my mind, are about fishing nymphs or the duo. How many of you fish upstream spiders with your tenkara rods, and do you fish a cast of three in the traditional style?
My thought was that a lot of new tenkara anglers might be fishing wet flies for the first time, having concentrated on dries or nymphs with Western fly fishing (although I suppose that might be more true in the US than in the UK). Some new tenkara anglers have never fly fished before so it would certainly be new to them. Wet fly fishing in the US is almost exclusively done "down and across" and I would bet that many anglers here have no idea that it can be done any other way.
In any event, when I watched the upstream fishing section of the DVD, I was very surprised that watching Oliver Edwards fishing spiders upstream was almost exactly the same as watching Dr. Ishigaki fishing sakasa kebari upstream. The biggest difference was that Dr. Ishigaki keeps his rod tip higher and is much more successful in keeping his line off the water.
It would be presumptuous of me to offer fishing advice to Oliver Edwards, but I kept thinking when watching him fish upstream that it would be so much easier for him if he had a longer rod and lighter line than his 9 foot 4 weight! Even the points he made about how it should be done suggest that a longer rod and lighter line would be more effective. I would think a tenkara rod would be absolutely ideal for upstream spiders.
Most of the comments I've read from UK tenkara anglers, or at least what sticks in my mind, are about fishing nymphs or the duo. How many of you fish upstream spiders with your tenkara rods, and do you fish a cast of three in the traditional style?
