Tenkara Fishing Rocky Mountain National Park

Here's some footage of me fishing with a Tenkara USA Iwana fly rod in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• tenkara fishing
• rocky mountain national park
• roaring river
• big thompson river

[sugacackes]

hey Jason, my family and i are hoping to go backpacking somewhere in california... thinking about the sierra nevadas. we will be leaving around 3/20/11 and we are hoping for a 3-4 day backpacking trip along some small creek or river. i was hoping i could do some fly-fishing when we stop for brakes. do you or dose any body else have any recommendationsas to locaations?

thanks any thing helps

[jasonklass]

@sugacackes

Sorry, I don't know enough about CA to help. Anyone else?

[CampfireTalk]

Great video, thanks for letting me feel like I was at the river for a couple of minutes.

[jasonklass]

@CampfireTalk

No problem. I hope you felt like you caught something too! ;)

[reggupton]

Great video using what will likely be a new type of rod for me on one of my favorite streams in RMNP.

Thanks for the great shots.

[MrtyMrtn]

@sugacackes it would have been near impossible to get into the high Sierra last March. You would have had to stay down low... If you get a chance this fall, or next year try the Golden Trout Wilderness. Lot's of smaller streams that produce a lot of wild trout...

[codyisdank]

@sugacackes

I live in southern california and backpack the sierras all summer long. If you want really good fishing check out the mammoth area, places like hot creek, the upper owens, and the many high lakes and strreams around mammoth. another great place to backpack and fish is the golden trout wilderness in the south sierras. the upper kern, the little kern, and the south fork of the kern all have beautiful fish.

[DaReelJLO]

That is awesome, convenient, and very relaxing. I just learned about Tenkara today! Nice video!

[chaddvanzanten]

It's a nice video and while I appreciate packing with such simplicity, I backpack with net and waders for the benefit of the fish as well as myself. Fishing with this Tenkara outfit will require sometimes banking the fish and it looks like this fellow is handling fish with dry hands. Yes, you get away with only ounces of fishing gear, but wild native fish deserve better if you are releasing them. With my waders and net, I can sometimes release the fish without even touching them.

[chucks970]

ill keep my TFO 3wt.