Yes, I do.
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I fished a mountain lake earlier this week. I do have a soft spot for fishing beautiful mountain lakes with a tenkara rod. I find it to be more contemplative than creek fishing, which requires more of my attention, and I appreciate the stillness and quiet.
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Hi Tristan. Outstanding video and fishing! If you know what to look for, the thing that really stands out with the working fish is that they show the classic form of trout feed on Chironomid Pupa. As the wind came up the fish quit rising, and as it subsided they began feeding again and you were catching them again. Pulsing you’re fly pattern (Kebari or not) and moving it toward the surface imitates the behavior of midge pupa very well. And imitating that behavior is much more important to angling success than having an accurate copy of a Chironomid Pupa fly pattern and is why you did so well in catching those fish. The following link will connect to a short portion of a Ralph Cutter Video, showing great underwater filming on the importance of midges, their life stages, and how they behave so anglers can catch many more fish and know the reasons why they are succeeding so well. Please take a look.
https://www.tenkarausa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=6720
If you plan on doing quite a bit of Tenkara Lake Fly Fishing in the future, you will find it helpful to invest in acquiring a Floating PVC Tenkara Fly Line, which will handle wind much better than a level Fluorocarbon line can and allow you to get longer drag free drifts with dry flies than you can with lines that sink. In the Spring on lakes, midge pupa make up 50% of the trout’s food consumed, with the rest mostly composed of ants, beetles, hoppers and such that the thermal up draft winds deposit into the lakes later in the day after the midges shut down. Here is a link to my present most favored Floating Tenkara PVC Fly Line:
As you can easily see DT’s Floating Tenkara Fly Line comes with a Lilian attachment loop half-hitched on to the line’s welded loop. I prefer to use the welded loop for the Loop-To-Loop leader attachment and the line is long enough that you can probably make two floating lines out of it. To attach a Lilian Loop to the cut end of the Fly Line, make a loose half-hitch around the fly line with the Lilian Loop. Then form a loose Overhand Knot in the Fly Line and put the knotted end of the Lilian Loop through the hole in the fly line Over Hand Knot before tightening the Overhand Knot down to make a Stopper Knot for the Lilian Loop to tighten against. The final step is to pull the loose Lilian Loop Line up tight against the Fly Line Stopper knot, which makes a very small and tidy joining knot. 20 Pound Dacron Backing makes good Lilian Joining Loops, cut to what ever length you feel comfortable working with. This joining method requires a Stopper Knot to be tied in your Lilian’s End for the Lilian Loop to be Girth-Hitched to the Lilian securely. To untie the Fly Line, grasp the Lilian below the Girth-Hitch and Pull on the knot in the Lilian Loop - that’s all there is to it.
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I do have a couple of floating lines for very windy conditions. I still have one on my rod right now from the last time I used it, and you’ll see it in action in a few videos from now.
The wind on the lake wasn’t so bad that I couldn’t cast a level line, which I prefer.
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Small creek browns from yesterday. I hooked and lost a few nice ones, but here are a few that I got to hand. I fished one hour.
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In this video, couple of friends in France go on a backpacking/fishing trip. They catch some big ol’ rainbows, including a giant one (8 lbs!) that causes the angler to do the ol’ infamous throw-your-rod-in-the-water trick.
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@T-stillwater Well, last week I accidentally left my floating line (I was using the Zen Tenkara 15 ft) at the bottom of a 700-foot-deep canyon that I will probably never visit again, so I figured I’d get the Dragontail one to see how I like it. I’ll try it out probably next week.
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I chopped up a 2wt fly line into 15’ and 10’ lines and I absolutely love them for lake fishing.
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Here’s the latest…
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@arrowrand 0 wt. floating line also works really well. They still have it for sale on some fly fishing sites.
One spool will last you a really long time.
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Oooooooh, I’d like to try that. I had the 2wt line so it was an easy decision, was going to order a 1wt when I need more. I’ll have to try to find a 0wt, haven’t seen one in years.
Here’s one with my TB36. Drift markers shown.
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@arrowrand Randy, in the Summer 2020 catalog of Feather-Craft, page 18, look at Rio Creek floating line WF0F. It is expensive at $79.99 but there should be enough to last many years of fishing.
All. Let’s remember that someone started this thread for discussing tenkara videos. It’s fine to talk about line, but please move it to a different conversation.
All. Let’s remember that someone started this thread for discussing tenkara videos. It’s fine to talk about line, but please move it to a different conversation.
I’m fine with the thread going wherever the conversation takes. Talking about line naturally came out of what was in the videos, so it makes sense to talk about it in context here.
In this week’s video I fish a pool at the base of a waterfall for some native redband trout and then catch my first native fish in Oregon. Not quite the species I was after, but at least I wasn’t skunked…
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@Peder @TenkaraAddict Sorry, Peder and Tristan This is my mistake and I should have given the info to Randy via a private message.
No need to apologise, @Kookagee . @TenkaraAddict said he didn’t care and he started the thread. It’s really personal preference. I prefer threads to be on a single topic, that’s my preference. But if the OP doesn’t care, that’s fine by me.
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Here’s another video, from one hour of fishing last week:
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