Kebari Flies tied by John Pearson
(Authentic Japanese Tenkara)
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Japanese fishermen have a
reluctance to name individual fly patterns but they can
all be grouped generally by hackle type into:
- Futsū (normal stiff hackle, sticking out around 90 degrees) - Jun (normal soft hackles following the hook from the eye back toward the bend) - Sakasa (the soft reverse hackle so often associated with tenkara) In addition to the above, the weighted flies tend to get called honryu kebari (honryu translates as main river - meaning the larger rivers slightly lower down the mountain valleys). There are a few patterns associated with people or regions, so they tend to get called by that name by many people but they're not as "officially" named as some western flies. For example, the Ishigaki kebari with black thread body and ginger hackle is a futsū kebari but almost everyone ends up calling that colour combination an Ishigaki. |
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| Honryu Kebari (pattern shown John by Dr Ishigaki) |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| Honryu Kebari based on Dr Ishigaki’s “secret kebari” |
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| JP Juicy Kebari – yellow/olive |
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| Hirata Kebari based on kebari shown to John by Hirata san |
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| JP Juicy Kebari – black |
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| Ishigaki kebari |
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| Generic futsū kebari |
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| JP Juicy Kebari – brown |
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| JP Juicy Kebari – brown |
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| Futsū kebari with hot-head (as tied by Kazumi saigo a.k.a. Ajari) |
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| Ishigaki kebari variant (as tied by Ishigaki san) |
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| Go Ishii kebari (as shown to us by Go Ishii) |
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| Futsū kebari attributed to the Kurobe region by Yoshikazu Fujioka |
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| Yellow Sakasa Kebari (inspired by Masami Sakakibara’s large yellow sakasa) |
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| Takayama style sakasa kebari (with red silk head in place of silk loop eye) |
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| Black sakasa kebari (based on Masami Sakakibara’s pattern) |
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| Jun Kebari inspired by Makino san’s kebari |
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| Peacock sakasa kebari (inspired by Okumikawa style tying) |
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