The Furaibo Zoom and fixed length version are excellent rods. I’m realizing that Zoom rods aren’t better than fixed length and the fixed length version wasn’t as convenient as its short nested version.
I spent enough time with the Karasu 360 to know that it and it’s longer version are more complimentary to what I want, precise accurate pinpoint casting.
The Karasu do that.
And they are not red.
I don’t personally understand rods with flashy colors, regardless of how great the rod may be.
The 360 is an amazing rod. I hope they keep producing it.
I’m not a big fan of red also. Great to know your rod choices. I have a similar set, but can’t let go of me Tenryu 
I do need to thin my rod herd. I have many that sit around. I did pick up the foam handled version fo the Nissin Tenkara mini from Chris @TB and have been happy with it.
I love both of my “red rods”. Haven’t had a single fish complain yet. 
What?
Every fish I catch, complains, fights, etc.
Lol, Kris must be catching dead fish. I personally love the complaining.
I look at the online tenkara community in America and from what I see, it is largely a marketed community.
Chris Stewart has remained true selling experience. He sell Japanese rods that come from the country of origin and that is from decades of honest experience.
The rest are Americans that are marketing their experience which isn’t much and what they are selling is their interpretation of Japanese equipment filtered through their understanding.
Only a few have been to Japan, even fewer more than once.
You don’t have to go to Japan to be good at tenkara however, to know the experts there and fish with them is to have a deeper understanding.
I’m learning more about people than tenkara from that/this community.
Mob rules?
No.
Experience does.
I do enjoy conversation with people that practice Japanese style fly fishing. The fact is, I rarely learn anything tenkara.
I learn about people.
I don’t want that kind of knowledge.
But it’s fun to talk about fishing.
American fixed line fishing is fun.
I do some #untenkara.
Funny, I have found that the Japanese do it too!
Well, I am happy to have been marketed to by Dragontail. That’s not really how it happened, but my intro to Tenkara style rods isn’t important right now.
I’ve adapted my fishing to fit using Tenkara rods. 95% of my fishing is for warm water species and I’ve only used Tenkara style fixed line rods for more than a year.
I wet wade creeks for smallmouth, I float tube and kayak lakes and rivers for whatever they contain, I walk banks for anything and everything but catfish and carp. And a handful of times a year (not this past year) I travel to where the trout live. And I do it all with my Dragontail marketing machine Tenkara rods.
I’m not trying to do it the way that the Japanese do it, or the way that Chris Stewart does or the way that you do it. I’m doing it my way, and I think that’s more the point than anything else that can be said.
I just put together an actual crate for my kayak so I can quit tossing crap behind my seat and to keep my rods from rolling around the deck when not in use. I think it’s super duper cool, and I think some Japanese Tenkara masters would feel the same.
You owe me no explanation.
Feel free to make your own choices.
I’ll enjoy that same freedom.
I think it’s best that way.
