What a wild past three weeks it’s been. Work was nuts (as it always is in late January & early February), but that’s finally calmed down a bit with the NFL season coming to a close. Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks. I can sort of exhale now and not work 20 hour days. Phew…
On top of that I’ve been super busy over at Tenkara Angler. As the amateur editor-in-chief, I recently put the final touches on the 2026 print issue of the magazine and I think it came out pretty great. We had a lot of article submissions, a bunch of them from first-time writers. It was a nice cross section of topics and I’m really proud of this issue. It’s been out for about a week and people really seem to be enjoying it.
Even if you’re not a “tenkara person”, there’s a lot of interesting fly fishing related stuff in here too. For example, ever want to try dyeing your own fly tying materials with harvested natural pigments? Yeah, there’s an article about that in there. Want to explore Colorado and go fish in Rocky Mountain National Park? We’ve got an “angler’s guide” to visiting the area as well.
If that wasn’t enough, just this past weekend I just finished up the editing of the latest edition of the Tenkara Angler Level Line Podcast. We had a gentleman named Jeff Wells reach out to us wanting to talk about the tenkara opportunities in Chilean Patagonia. The pod released yesterday both on YouTube and wherever you listen to audio podcasts.
Jeff owns a fishing lodge down there, but has also been bitten by the tenkara bug, so while his guides take clients out on the ocean with gear or raft some of the big rivers with fly rods, he takes detours up into the mountains and fishes tenkara on untouched streams. He was eager to share and did a great job with the interview, you can find it here if you want to give it a listen.
It’s all pretty fun stuff and has really gotten me excited to get out on the water. (Even if it’s only a local Jacksonville retention pond and not a Chilean fjord.)