Bluegill Fly Rodders

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Comment by Jacob Hill on November 29, 2011 at 5:54am

I fished a tenkara a lot in Montana for Cutthroat Trout, and it is a great system. In still water you would need to have a long rod (15') and good boat control, but when the gills are shallow you could hammer them on a bugger or really big nymph. It is a blast in warmwater streams for chubs and sunfish too.

Comment by Jim Ducy on November 29, 2011 at 1:18am

My style of fishin' I like to tye and fish for BLUE GILLS !!!!

Jim Ducy

Comment by dave kensinger on August 16, 2011 at 6:57pm

Hoping to take the float tube out but dam i must have pulled a back muscule im down and out for this week,looks like ill be tying some more flies

Comment by John C Watson on July 21, 2011 at 5:54pm

I usually use a piece of florescent fluorocarbon leader that I buy on line that is about 16' in length, plus about 3-4 foot 5# test leader.  I can cast that far and as I don't have a boat all my fishing is from shore.  There are a lot of people who use Tenkara for other than trout streams if you read the posts on TenkaraUSA's forums.  People routinely catch 3-4 pound bass with them as well as some nice gills.  There is even a guy in Hawaii that catches nice gills and red devils.  

 

As far as imparting action to the fly, I find it easy to work a wet fly and I rather like heavier flies with glass bead or bead chain eyes.  Although Tenkara isn't intended for use with large bulky flies.  

 

Go to TenkaraUSA's forum and read up if you are interested.  There are several different rods with different lengths and actions to fit different needs.  This is a system for mostly fishing small/close, cold or warm waters.

 

Hope this helps,

 

John 

Comment by JBplusThuy on July 21, 2011 at 5:13pm

All the videos I've seen of tenkara were of people fishing in trout streams. How well does it translate to still water? With no reel, there's no stripping in line. Seems like the tip of a 12 foot rod would be a less precise tool for imparting action?

Comment by Chris Barclay on July 21, 2011 at 7:16am

how far out can you fish with a Tenkara rod?

Comment by John C Watson on July 21, 2011 at 6:48am

I got my rod from TenkaraUSA.  Daniel is a good guy and sells quality products.   I seldom use my conventional fly rod now, only when I have to reach out further than the Tenkara will allow.  The simplicity of the Tenkara fishing is very appealing, just a rod and line and fly.

Comment by JBplusThuy on July 21, 2011 at 1:11am

You have a tenkara rod, huh? I've been thinking of maybe getting one of those, sometimes used similar rods in Japan for river fishing. The rods I used those times were not really tenkara rods per se, although they might have worked. They were probably closer to 16 feet long and had an equal amount of monofilament attached to the rod tip. To the end of the mono attaches a string of very small flies tied on a few inches apart. These were commonly bead heads.  You put them out in the current, let them sit, move them around once in a while until a fish hits.

 

Even if I don't get the rod, I may get myself a Tenkara USA T-shirt just for the fish on it. That's a yamame, a native Japanese trout (well, I've read they're actually in the char family, but). The wild ones like cool to cold very clear water and are tremendously wary.  I caught a wild one once, and caught a few stocked ones in heavily stocked "kanrizuriba" fishing spots. Even there, yamame are hard to catch. On a good day I'd catch 20 or more rainbows and usually no yamame at all. Even the hatchery-bred ones are pretty wary.

Comment by John C Watson on July 20, 2011 at 4:39pm

Caught only five today but it was really hot.  Got out late due to a doctor's appointment.  Caught all five on a chain bead eyed yellow maribu wet fly.  I used my 12' Iwana Tenkara rod that is a hoot to catch bluegills on.

Comment by J. B. Hillard on July 19, 2011 at 10:00am

The Choctawhatchee is peaking today at about 6.8 ft. When the rains were going over the weekend NOAA predicted about 10 ft.

It's dropping now so fishing should pick up over next few days. Will give it a shot on Thursday

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