Tenkara In The Ozarks?

[dtrs5kprs]

 

Busted out the Tenkara for the first time today. I caught a handful of tiny guys from the skinniest water imaginable. Not great water, but nice enough for me to add Dusty Striped Shiner to my life list. 

My boy went with me and used UL spinning. He got a chub and LE sunfish. 

Wonder how far up the little creeks you could find a gizzard?

[Ham]

 

Wonder how far up the little creeks you could find a gizzard?

It's a good thing you have such a good sense of humor. I don't know how you could handle living in Kansas otherwise. 

I hope I can catch a gizzard shad this year. Take a nice picture and then mail it to you as slowly as possible. 

 

[Johnsfolly]

Glad to see you get out with the Tenkara rod Ham. I've been looking at Tenkara rods, but have not pulled the trigger on one. Been doing all my microfishing with UL spinning tackle.

[Ham]

well, the good news is that I didn't break the rod first time out. The place we were fishing is so small that I was actually kind of handcuffed by the length of the rod.

I was using 7X tippet. It was hard to see and got irrevocably tangled really often. Not the most fun I've ever had fishing. 

Do a lot of research before you pull the trigger on a tenkara rod purchase. 

 

[Ham]

Chris Stewart who has the Tenkara website I bought my rod through will be at Sowbug all three days. I may go meet/greet and watch him tie some bugs on Thursday. Friday and Saturday I will be fishing the BassCat OI. Thursday I really need to get my boat ready for the deal and maybe precise just a little bit. Never enough time.  

[Johnsfolly]

I bought my snelled #26 tanago hooks from Chris's website. Trying to put together a family SW MO trip to hopefully see some bison and prairie chickens, but also to fish the Spring river (the other Spring river that flows into Kansas) and tribs. for cardinal shiners and redspot chubs. I might even try out the #26's for mosquitofish.

Good luck in the tournament.

[dtrs5kprs]

 

It's a good thing you have such a good sense of humor. I don't know how you could handle living in Kansas otherwise. 

I hope I can catch a gizzard shad this year. Take a nice picture and then mail it to you as slowly as possible. 

 

I hope I catch one first, lol.

[grizwilson]

On 4/6/2016 at 0:18 PM, Johnsfolly said:

I bought my snelled #26 tanago hooks from Chris's website. Trying to put together a family SW MO trip to hopefully see some bison and prairie chickens, but also to fish the Spring river (the other Spring river that flows into Kansas) and tribs. for cardinal shiners and redspot chubs. I might even try out the #26's for mosquitofish.

Good luck in the tournament.

If you have a float tube or light canoe you can pack 1/2 mile or so there are some excellent strip pits at the south end of Prairie State Park on MDC land and access.... not sure if those little guys are in there though.

[Ham]

On April 7, 2016 at 8:24 PM, dtrs5kprs said:

I hope I catch one first, lol.

I'm sure you will. 

[Johnsfolly]

Griz - we did get down to SW MO and visited Prairie Stat park. I caught creek chubs and with the #26 caught a couple of orangethroat darters in the small stream running through the campsite area. There was several topminnows that stayed about 2 to 2.5' further than my UL rod could reach. Now if I had a 7 to 8' tenkara rod, maybe I could have added those to the list.