Fly fishing’s most celebrated annual event, the RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival, continues its global tour during August and September in Australia. The film tour serves as a stage for the best Australian and Kiwi filmmakers in the industry to premiere their latest offerings, allowing the fishing community to share their passion for the sport by attending film screenings across the country.

In its 11^th year, RISE is celebrating over a decade of bringing the best fishing entertainment to cinemas around the world. Australian audiences can look forward to stunning footage from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Bolivia and Alaska presented in high definition on the big screen.

Gin-Clear Media's collection of films includes Freaks of Nature https://vimeo.com/168570738ne of the features of the festival. It is a film about the giant rainbow trout of Patagonia’s fabled Jurassic Lake. This desolate and wind-swept lake is undoubtedly home to the largest trout on the planet, a place where ten pound fish are common and twenty pound plus trout are caught every week.

The festival will also be premiering Parallel Lines https://vimeo.com/167712034 the new film from emerging Aussie filmmaker Benny Godfrey. Filmed in numerous locations across Australia and featuring Brett Wilson and Shannon Kitchener, two mates whose lives have been shaped by their passion for fly fishing.

For many, RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival has become so much more than just going to the cinema. These annual fish-fests have become a true celebration of fly fishing, it's an excuse to get together with friends and reminisce about the past season as well as look forward to the season to come.

Presented by Gin-Clear Media, RISE will screen across Australia, including Brisbane, Central Coast, Sydney, Bowral, Canberra, Albury, Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo, Hobart, Burnie, Launceston, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin.

For more information, movie trailers etc. visit www.gin-clear.com

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The Sage X rods are their new flagship series replacing the popular and very versatile Ones. Sage renew their flagship model approximately every 5-6 years and this is the 10th flagship model in their history (get it, the Roman numeral X = 10).
The rods utilize the Sage Konnetic technology which aims to reduce the amount of resin between the carbon fibers. The new technology is called Konnetic HD (high density) and Sage’s in house composite engineer Steve Greist has this to say about it;
“The essence of KONNETIC HD Technology is our ability to further increase the fiber density in the composite above KONNETIC Technology used in the ONE and SALT rods. That is to say there are more fibers in a given volume in HD. This translates into increased composite modulus (stiffness) and more effective energy transfer between fibers and ultimately throughout the whole rod.  We’ve increased the stiffness to weight ratio as well as the strength to weight ratio with the new material so have gained on all fronts. This gives Jerry a material to further optimize his design and actions that are efficient to load, develop high line speed and result in accurate and improved loop control.”
So how does that translate into what happens through the rod, in your hand and ultimately in the line. The rods are definitely lighter in hand than their predecessors and they certainly seem to bend a lot deeper in the blank. In fishing terms a rod that bends a bit deeper has more “feel” in close and let's face it, most fish are caught within 50 feet and it’s the 30-50ft length that is so critical for most trout fishing. At these ranges the rods I have tried excel.
The other aspect of Konnetic HD is that it seems to track straighter and truer – tracking is what we refer to as the path of the tip of the rod laterally – sideways movement greatly affects accuracy and Jerry Siem, Sage’s chief rod designer, along with Steve Greist understands this need to align the fibers in the rod to achieve minimal lateral movement. These rods are dead accurate.
This summer I look forward very much to putting the new X #5 up against my old #5 One, perhaps the most versatile rod I have ever owned. The #8 was an instant love affair and is simply the best rod I have ever cast – if only there were bonefish in Tassy.
Peter Morse

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