A few months ago I purchased a tenkara rod and decided to take up this Japanese style of very minimalist fly fishing.   This month the small streams in the area finally opened up and I’ve felt like a little kid with a cane pole going out fishing.   I’ve been out a half dozen times on streams in western and eastern Washington and have caught easily over a hundred trout now on my 11′ Iwana rod and a single kebari that I tied.   This is the most fun I’ve had fly fishing in a long time and I’m only catching 6-10″ fish for the most part.    Recently I began exploring a small stream only 15 minutes from the house and am having a blast catching dozens of small trout on each outing with a few big-uns up to 9-11″.    It brings back memories of being 10 years old and first learning to fly fish when an 8′ rod seemed way too long and I couldn’t really cast but could lay out 10′ of line and pull a bluegill out of a farm pond.   I’m totally hooked now and plan on spending the rest of the summer wading small streams and working on becoming a tenkara bum.