One Fly for the Tenkara Holidays . . .
“Six Green Guarantee!” (NYC 12 2015)
1.
Gift giving. Among anglers the act can be a delicate wade on slippery surfaces. Some people may even take offense as far as viewing an offer as a hard press unwanted.
Gift giver I may be. The acceptance of a fly pattern example, a kebari, perhaps as a holiday present, a simple gift from a friend or acquaintance who ties is, when from me, an act and an artifact of interaction akin to a card: business, birthday, or holiday.
If the gift offered comes in duplicate, or more, fish the fly! Mix the gift pattern with your own for the classic swing or two in a flow’s current seam.
“Tenkara is One Fly Fishing” has been offered as a koan, as well as a sales absorbing orthodoxy, yet I have met masters who swing tandem soft hackles on a long furled leader with the grace of every other magician who has penned a trout treatise.
One Fly. The inquiry begs an absolute or other from every voice. Is there an answer . . . yet?
Meanwhile, fish that gift fly, or deconstruct the recipe for future fun with one fly on the water.
2.
When the good wine flows as fast as a pocket water flow, one knows many more than expected have arrived. Plenty of guests made a party for the NYC Tenkara Club in Manhattan, New York City. A table appointed well greeted the second floor guest at Orvis, 489 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Saddle hackles hung in rows and a white screen displayed slide show views of tenkara fisheries and fishers employed with a variety of matched tackle. Adam Klag displayed tenkara rods short and light along longer models capable of tangling with major Cyprinidae.
Respected voices filled the space with Q&A and useful demonstrations of tackle management.
“What About One Fly?”
There it was, then. The Question.
I refer to my Tenkara Fly Code first shared in May of 2012:
https://tenkaratakesmanhattan.com/2012/05/01/a-tenkara-fly-code/
That is my “Fly Box Flashback” for the close of December, 2015.
Time since New York City’s tenkara public meeting has since been spent with irony tying multiple patterns. So far from One Fly has been in part inspired by this recent gathering of tenkara angling kin. If I were a cub reporter and copy editor in attendance on December 8, I would have titled my reportage:
Tenkara Takes Manhattan
. . . the i-RON-y.
– rPs 12 14 2015
Postscript: My 2015 holidays season’s tenkara gift suggestions and recommendations in random order:
Crooked Lines by Dominic Garnett
http://dgfishing.co.uk/product/crooked-lines/
Nissin Flying Dragon Carp Rod at Tenkara Bum
http://www.tenkarabum.com/nissin-flying-dragon-carp-rod.html
Simple Flies by Morgan Lyle
http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Lyle/e/B0196QS5OG/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Tenkara Flies by Anthony Naples
http://www.tenkarabum.com/anthony-naples-tenkara-flies.html
fallons angler issue 4
http://fallonsangler.net/product/fallons-angler-issue-4/
