Fishing With the Cheapest Tenkara Flies I Could Find! (Tenkara Fly Fishing with Kebari)

In this video I fish a high desert mountain stream with the cheapest tenkara flies (kebari) I could find. They're from AliExpress and cost around $0.39 per fly. Are they any good? Do they catch fish??
Here are the flies I ordered: www.aliexpress...
DATE FILMED: May 2020
LOCATION: Idaho
GEAR USED
(Note: The Amazon links are affiliate links)
** SEE MORE INFO ABOUT MY FLIES AND GEAR HERE: tenkaraaddict....
** ROD: Dragontail/Nirvana 400
** LINE: 13-foot level line with 3 feet of tippet
** FLY: Cheap AliExpress sakasa kebari (www.aliexpress...)
** NET: Measure Net with rubberized medium net bag
OTHER LINKS
** Instagram (@TenkaraAddict): / tenkaraaddict
** My main KZbin channel (SUVRVing): / suvrving
** My store: KamchatkaGear.com
Intro wind noise clip: "Wind, Realistic, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
#tenkara #fishing #flyfishing

[@Deenihan18]

The best small creek fly fishing Channel on KZbin. Keep up the Saturday videos

[@AdiposePhin]

Love the simplicty of Tenkara, although I have not tried it myself. Great content, really enjoy your vids, keep them coming! (Albany NY area here).

[@carlosandreblatt]

Tristan, thanks for testing the flies for us... Have a fun challenge for you: Next time you get the chance to fish a creek like that, try to fish a bare hook ( silver, gold or red) it would be an interesting experience!

[@stevewalcott9546]

Great stuff, much easier fishing than your previous bushwhacking videos! Beautiful fish and scenery too!

[@TenkaraAddict]

Yep, it's great to fish a wide open creek and just focus on the fishing! 😁

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

What an amazing little stream you have there. I'm so envious! :-)

[@toddyclements3247]

Yet another beautiful setting with great fishing! Thank you!

[@ozangler5642]

Lovely stream and trout. Like most fly fishermen, I have more flies than I'll ever need but most of the time I tie on a Black Woolly Worm when I fish a small stream or creek. It's a fly that could be many edible food items to a trout and I have confidence in it. Sure, there's times when trout turn up their noses at it but I used to waste so much time changing flies with zero or poor result. Often it's not the fly but how it is presented that makes the difference. I always enjoy your videos. Cheers, Steve.

[@torygraffen9449]

Good show T.A. it's always fun to see you doing what I hope to be doing up in the panhandle (Cd'L) area in the near future. Later

[@TenkaraAddict]

I hope to make it up there this summer. I have a goal to catch fish in all 44 of Idaho's counties, and I'm at 18. Lots of places to explore still!

[@bimteck]

checking in. great video as always!

[@michaelpthompson]

AliExpress is a great source for many items if you have little money and lots of time. I bought a 3.6m Tenkara rod from them. Haven't had a chance to take it out fishing yet. Keep up the good work.

[@TenkaraAddict]

Thanks Michael. I have a cheapo 360 cm AliExpress rod too that I haven't tried yet either.

[@michaelcapurso]

Beautiful location. Try this for a cheap fly, not Japanese but works. Cut a 2" piece of Ultra Chenille in fluorescent pink and tie it around a hook with a single over hand knot and fish away.

[@myotherlinefishing]

Another great vid. Thanks man!

[@christiangaytan1275]

From my experience almost any type of fly works in those small creeks. They do spook easily but there’s so many fish it’s easy too love on.

[@TenkaraAddict]

Agreed! Thanks Christian.

[@andrewwayment4260]

Looks like you had fun. Love that little creek.

[@TenkaraAddict]

Yep, it was a blast! Thanks Andy.

[@michaelsmith7193]

Thank you for another excellent video! Might those rainbows have been native Great Basin redband trout? Really enjoy your channel!

[@TenkaraAddict]

There are no Great Basin redbands in Idaho, so nope. And the redbands we do have (Columbia River redbands) aren't in this particular area. Thanks for watching 👍

[@360fishingadventures8]

Try fishing an urban creek. I fished one yesterday and loved it.

[@danielgeorgiev5023]

using same flies here in Bulgaria. works nice. i also tried do it myself, also working.. so hey, the japans are right - the fly dosn't matter much :D

[@countrycreekcaster5020]

That’s one beautiful place man.

[@jeremydrouin9975]

How do you like the Nirvana 400? I've been.using it to catch bass, crappie and other panfish here in Missouri. I'll take it to Colorado this summer for some mountain stream fishing. What size level line do you use with it? Keep up the good work! P.S. - I subsequently went to your gear page and read your comments on the Nirvana 400. I've broken a couple tips - one was definitely my fault, the other not so sure. I agree that the Dragontail replacement parts are reasonably priced and shipped quickly.

[@rphilip2768]

Great stuff. Really enjoying the content and pacing of your videos. Almost like being there. Questions: when fishing rivers, creeks and streams are you fishing with the fly ON the surface in a dead float or dead drifting just under the surface as the fly sinks?

[@TenkaraAddict]

I fish them under the surface. Thaks for watching.

[@markcole1516]

I would like to see what shape the fly was in after 20 plus fish. I've found that you can get more service out of these cheap flies if you use a bit of head cement before fishing to reinforce the wraps and materials.

[@TenkaraAddict]

It was in rough shape! Yep, head cement would be a good idea. Thanks Mark.

[@АндрейСеменов-ъ5с9ж]

Интересный способ ловли рыбы, испробовал улов есть. Спасибо.

[@KyHarvey71]

Now I can’t use the crappy fly excuse. So basically I just suck. Is there a reason you wouldn’t want to just use a regular elk hair caddis or other traditional fly?

[@modrarybivrana5654]

looks like east of hart mt or. my dad would fish for Dolly's now called bull trout.

[@robsnotes4u]

Do you use a chest holder for your GoPro when fishing?

[@stevebergeron8763]

Great small creek! Is that area south of Pocatello on the way to Malad? I am also trying out new Kebaris that I bought on amazon. Alittle hard right now cuz of the heavy runoff

[@TenkaraAddict]

Nope, it's not. And yeah, it's a tough time of year to fish because of the runoff. Gotta find those spring creeks. Thanks Steve.

[@ianjones6910]

Pretty.....it seems like those Tenkara flies would be very easy to tie; I bought a fly-typing "starter kit" last year, but I've yet to break it out. I've used "standard" flies and nymphs with my Tenkara - in most of these small streams, it really doesn't matter much as far as patterns go.

[@lanekejr3209]

Thinking about getting into Tenkara. Do you think the Dragontail talon 330 would be a good starter??

[@TenkaraAddict]

No idea. I've never fished that rod. But as far as length goes, it depends what kind of water you're fishing. If you're going to be fishing small-ish mountain streams, that length will be fine. If you're fishing rivers or lakes, there's no reason not to go for a longer rod.

[@lanekejr3209]

K thanks

[@danieledwards2296]

What size line do you use on these small rods and creeks

[@TenkaraAddict]

This is a 13-food rod, so not really a small one. Rod and line info is in the description of each video. Thanks for watching.

[@klmanning90]

I just bought a tenkara rod and waiting for it’s arrival! Are tenkara flies dry? Do you usually fish tenkara with dry flies? So many questions...

[@TenkaraAddict]

Traditional tenkara flies are wet flies. Dry flies can be used with a tenkara rod.

[@klmanning90]

@@TenkaraAddict Thank you!

[@nmgaucho]

Hi Tristan, getting my tenkara kit set up. Where did you buy the cool landing net?

[@TenkaraAddict]

It's the medium rubber Measure Net, and I got it from Amazon.

[@nmgaucho]

@@TenkaraAddictThanks!

[@troutstalker4744]

Do you uses both dry and wet flies.?

[@TenkaraAddict]

I use only wet flies

[@johnstratos9336]

Try the cheapest tenkara rods from aliexpress next time.

[@TenkaraAddict]

I have a video of me using a small $3 AliExpress rod, and I have some other super cheap rods that I still need to test out. Thanks for watching.

[@briancooper2737]

Ali express? Really? I did not realize that they sold that kind of thing there.

[@sgt.h7117]

Tasty!

[@paulhoughland8505]

A bad fly presented well will out fish a good fly presented poorly.