Bushwalk Australia

Tenkara UL fly fishing pack rod

I came across Tenkara rods last year in a BPL article and my mate Dave brought one back from the US, I had a try of Dave’s rod in January and I have been hooked ever since. I now own two Tenkara’s, a Yamame and a BPL UL Hane, they have become my favorite rod pack rods. The Yamame is 3.7m long with a closed length 54cm and weighs in at 102g http://www.tenkarausa.com/product_info. ... ucts_id/35 . The Hane
Is 3m long and closes down to 40.6 cm and weighs in at 77g is one of the lightest rods around, the Hane arrived two days after my last trip and I have not been able to use it yet. http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgibin/ ... g_rod.html

The rods are able to pack up so small that they easily fit into my 50 liter pack and they are particularly suitable for small streams and in the two over night trips that I have used my rod I have caught over 60 fish, the biggest at around 34cm. As there is no reel, it is an advantage to be able to use the wading stick and fish at the same time. The line is about the same length as the rod and I have been using a 1-1.5m tippet.

Tony


Yamame top in sleeve with tube and the UL Hane below in sleeve

Two collapsed rods

two rods with line, with the Yamame I use a piece of western line which is wrapped around two pieces of cork that I glued on to the tube, this is designed to fit into the sleeve and the rod tube.

The Yamame

Me fishing a nice stream, using my wading stick.

Quite Neat. Pity that fish hate me

I noticed these rods the other day on Hendrik's Hiking in Finland blog

Looks great Tony.

I've got a Pflueger President Mirco reeel and a Bass Pro Shops Pack Rod (5'6) for spinning / bait fishing. Not a superlight setup but it's still not too bad.

What other spinning setups do people use when hiking?

I'm going to head to Moreton Island next weekend for 3 or 4 days. Hopefully will walk around it. Also trying to do it with a 43l pack (wish me luck). I couldn't go without a rod and the prospect of eating some fresh fish, so I've acquired the following combo:

Jarvis Walker Tsnami 4 pice 8' rod - 220g
Alvey 45b sidecast reel (it is QLD after all) - 327g

On that note (without sidetracking the discussion too much), does anyone have any tips for cooking fish using backpack cooking gear? I was thinking maybe alfoil (but what to do with it once used?)

Joel

Fish cooks really nicely on a Trangia using a large wok, or for a smaller fish (or a fish cut into a couple of pieces), the Trangia lid/frypan will do the job. A Trangia isn't exactly light weight though. I'm sure it would work well on any stove with a reasonably wide, flat pan. Titanium ain't the best of frying, as it doesn't disperse the heat very evenly (so I've been led to believe - haven't tried frying on my new pans yet).

I've not tried using alfoil while out walking, but I would think that wrapping it in alfoil will cook it better, and make the pan easier to clean also. I'd suggest that after cooking, clean what you can off the alfoil, and then simply screw it up into a ball (alfoil compresses very well), and place it in a zip lock bag (which is what I do with all my rubbish anyhow).

Great stuff!
I used to use a trangia, now I use a jetboil. Not sure how that'd go cooking any seafood I get along my ways.

Steaming should work well in any pan that's big enough on any stove that the pan fits on. Just gotta arrange some mechanism for keeping the food out of the water on the bottom.