July 30, 2016

While searching for new water to explore I come across a river system that I had driven past numerous times but never noticed that look very promising...

July 25, 2016

I visit the illustrious city of Nikko but not to fish, just site seeing. There is plenty of fishing action though...

July 12, 2016

Tucked into an ultra remote mountain valley lies a village that time forgot. Coursing through this utopia are a plethora of keiryu teeming with trout...

July 02, 2016

Tenkara with indicators can revolutionize your fly fishing, but Tenkara is supposed to be simple is adding another tool to the "tool box" really necessary???

June 29, 2016

Shokuryoshi were Tenkara anglers from a by-gone age, who fished the keiryu of Japan for a living. Their ingenuity has given us Tenkara as we know it today...

June 17, 2016

Located within the heart of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, lies the town of Hakone. The area boasts many attractions and even a few decent rivers to fish...

June 03, 2016

The town of Minakami is only two hours from Tokyo. However, it is a great destination for those looking to escape the madness of Tokyo & find some serenity...

May 27, 2016

Every year in Shimoda, near the tip of Izu Peninsula, hosts the Black Ship Festival. It is a festival to celebrate Japan's first contact with the western world...

May 25, 2016

I visited Ogawayama in the fall last year. The place is absolutely massive with a lifetime of rock climbing littered throughout the alpine valley. So, naturally I had to return to sample a little more of the magic of this place...

May 06, 2016

Deep in the river valleys of Japan, away from pollution and too much interference by man, lives the endangered Nihon Kawanezumi or Japanese River Shrew...