I was looking through some on-line catalogues and found a name I did not know.
Tenkara.
When I saw what it was I thought of P.A. fishing the Tweed a few weeks ago. Just standing still and flicking a line out with minimum of effort and maximum success.
Looks like the ideal travel rod.
http://www.bearsden.com/page314.html
http://media.patagonia.com/fb/FISH_S11/?lang=eu#/6
A.
Alan,
I posted something on this a while back here: http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=11940.msg118197#msg118197