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Tenkara is all about precision casting. Selecting a desired location for a holding fish and making an accurate cast to that target. Because we’re targeting specific locations expecting fish to be there, there’s an expectation when our fly hits the water that a fish might  strike ! This brings us to aerial mends and why they’re important. Aerial mends  serve two primary purposes for tenkara anglers; When casting directly at a target where [you think] a fish may be, an aerial m

In tenkara we use straight back-and-forth casts, but we can cast using circumduction. What’s circumduction? Circumduction is the movement of a human joint as it traces a circular motion. The motion can be demonstrated by the arm and/or the wrist for casting purposes. While the movement is not exact, it does follow a circular path. For example, if you were to draw an imaginary circle using only your wrist (pretend you’re holding an imaginary pen); it’s that circular motion t