Any of you ever notice that Nate is a bit of a bad influence?
Here I am, eight short days from the beginning of my cow moose hunt, which just happens to be located in some of the finest blue-ribbon trout waters this side of New Zealand, and he casually mentions Tenkara fishing.
I've never heard of Tenkara fishing. Never seen it. So, not knowing that he has totally set me up, I innocently do a search for Tenkara fishing. Well that was a mistake.
The first video on the USA site derned near ruined me right off the bat. The longbow of the fishing world! Absolutely perfect for the small mountain creeks (pronounced "cricks") that I always seem to be hiking along.
So, there I will be, slowly slinking along trout filled streams near the Wyoming border looking for a nice, big, tasty cow moose, and all the while hungry rainbow and brown trout will be rising to eat the last bugs of the season right there in front of me.
Now, thanks to Nate, if I didn't have a nice traditional Japanese Tenkara rod in my pack, all that I would be able to think about, when I wasn't looking through the binoculars for moose, was the fact that I don't have a Tenkara rod in my pack.
"Hmmmm" I says to myself, "I wonder if they can ship one to my house in the next seven days?"