Nope - that was upstream worming . Tenkara, just like LRF , is a new style with ancient origins but let's celebrate the fact that this long established sport can still take new twists and turns, rather than harrumphing that we've seen it all before. Did anybody say that about wagglers I wonder ? 'Nowt but bloody antenna floats ' ; or carbon fibre ' fancy new plastic , now where's me Milbro Enterprise? '
Who says there is nothing new, have you heard of the latest style of fishing, it's called exercise with a rod and line, I tried it yesterday but I cheated and put a hook and bait on.
I have been reading the Wikipedia account of Tenkara and it says:-
literally: "fishing from heaven", or "fishing from the skies") is a simple type of fishing practiced in
Japan. Primarily used for mountain stream trout fishing, tenkara is still a fairly rare method of angling among fresh-water mountain anglers in Japan. Most use bait.
Tenkara was largely unknown outside Japan until 2009, when the company
Tenkara USA,founded by Daniel Galhardo introduced and popularized tenkara outside Japan.
Although there are similarities between tenkara and traditional Western-style fly fishing, the two techniques developed independently of each other, with tenkara being purely Japanese in origin.