Howdy all,
I was wondering if anyone has any feedback or reviews on any of the Discover Tenkara courses. I’ve read Rob Worthing’s book a few times in addition to How to Fool Fish with Simple Flies (which I’m critical of for pointing back to their courses but oh well), but would like to learn more about presentations in a video or graphic format.
Has anyone taken these courses and if so, what did you think?
All the ones I purchased were really good. I think they pulled some though at some point so not sure if they are all still available.
Here is a link to a post I made about DT Courses.
There was some excellent content in the email lessons with links to their free web content. I have bookmarked a lot of that content from the original DT website, and YT channel videos at the specific points where content I want to refer back to is. *Ex. A short video segment showing a great aerial mending technique I now use that allowed me to effectively fish and hook - land a trout from just outside a 12’ long “tunnel” created by the top of a fallen tree across the entire stream into tall impenetrable overhanging brush on the bank the first time I tried it.
In 2021 I purchased the Manipulations Course from the “DT Academy” website. It has 8 short “lessons” that each detail a technique. There is an overarching 1.2 hour hosted video. There is a short segment in the video on how fly design helps with manipulation techniques and putting your fly where you want it that isn’t really defined in the lessons plan menu. And unfortunately the hosted format does not contain a descriptive chapter menu that would be very helpful in finding the specific segments. Moving the cursor along the playback bar will show where end-of-chapter bullet list summaries are. But I don’t see "chapter start “cards” so the transition to the next chapter can take a little bit of time.
To Dr. Paul Gaskell’s credit the materials I paid for are still available to me for review after paying for the course!
I also have the Kindle “Tenkara Sasoi - Fly Manipulation for Tenkara & Western…” that bookednds well with the Manipulations… course. I also bought “How to Fool Fish With Simple Flies - The Science Behind Japanese Kebari and Euro-Nymph Patterns” book. I also have Paul’s Cutcliff Rapid Streams, and his Small Streams books. I have downloaded them all to my laptop, tablet, and phone so I can refer to them at home and afield.
Overall I believe DT has helped me a lot on my journey.