Last year I discovered tenkara at the Fly Fishing Show, watching Daniel do his casting presentation and then talking to the crew at the booth afterwards. I went home and ordered my first tenkara rod, an 11′ Iwana which I figured was perfect for the small rivers in the area. The first time I fished it I was hooked and never went back.
This year the show again was in Lynnwood at the Convention Center and I showed up at 9 a.m. just as it was opening on Saturday morning. On my drive up another CrossTrek pulled up next to me and was hovering by my side in the lane to my left, I finally looked over, it was Lex on his way to the show too. Once there we ran into some Orvis shop workers and hit the show after fighting with the kind of poor tablet interface to enter your raffle number.