188. One Hour, Four Rods.

In this post I fish four 400 cm tenkara rods. I fish for one hour and compare their on-the-water performance, and which I prefer. I use the same line and fly on each rod. Rods used: TenkaraBum 40, Nissin Oni Honryu 395, Tanuki XL-1, and Oni Type-I. Below are listed my more detailed reviews:

Chapters:
0:00 Title screen
0:15 Intro
1:05 TB40
2:14 Nissin Oni Honryu 395
4:26 XL-1
6:30 Oni Type-1
8:30 Thoughts on these rods.

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[SteveCostantini]

Tom: I love the wading staff you made. I copied your design and made four for myself and friends. On mine I keep experimenting and have used an idea I got from Tom Silva of "This Old House" that he uses on his wood hammer handle.. I take a 3/8" drill and drill some dimples into the top of the wading staff about a foot down from the T so that it provides me with a solid grip without the material.
Thanks again ..Steve

[NickPavlovski]

Nice to see a couple of exciting, splashy surface takes...

[johnsmalldridge]

Nice to see you putting up some videos! Hope everything is going well for you.

[TenkaraAddict]

Great video. I'm in the market for a new 400 cm rod, and this was helpful in giving me a few more data points. Thanks Tom!

[leongtoon]

Hi Tom, great clip ! Are u fishing a dry fly, letting it float or are u nymphing ?

[josepheiden]

Kind of an off topic question but I was wondering what type of leg gaiters you were wearing. I noticed a quick shot of them while you were releasing one of your catches.

[Strontyum]

Tom, I've enjoyed your videos but I would just like to see your casts and casting from a little further off. There are a number of subtleties which are currently lost: your casting stroke, how the rod flexes and responds, and so forth.

Here's an alternative method of camera setup offering a possibly better third person perspective (no I'm not sponsored).


He discusses the set up here