ANOTHER DAZZLING cinematographic adventure for fly fishers from Chris Patterson and Jim Klug, the producers of "Drift." "RISE" travels to the Florida Keys, Argentina, Alaska, New Orleans, Idaho and Venezuela and profiles anglers, guides and icons in their home waters. This clip features René Harrop — known on the Henry's Fork as the "Trout Hunter" — describing his close connection to one of the most fabled trout streams in North America.

Excerpt: "I think I was destined to be here and to make my life right here. And that's the way it's been. 55 years later I still feel the same excitement, the same surge of energy and the sense of something very special about this place."

"The truest sense of happiness, of joy, is when we're where we want to be, and we're doing what we want to do."

"LET'S START with the issue of hooking fish — with any size hook. The first thing I would say is that most anglers are used to the idea that they need to plan their approach in terms of presentation?staying low enough to keep from spooking the fish, combining angle of approach with casting technique to minimize drag, etc. — but they rarely consider how those angles affect their ability to hook the fish."

RA BEATTIE's new DVD "Nervous Water" is a compilation of all the best work from the filmmaker's five years of shooting fly fishing adventures. With over two-and-a-half hours of video — several longer pieces along with a dozen or so short segments — the DVD is filled with examples of Beattie's ability to frame a fishing scene so that it can't possibly be forgotten. Beattie calls this segment from the DVD "the Redfish Cut." It's a narrative on sightcasting for waking and tailing redfish along the south Texas coastline.

GENERALLY, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all. — Thomas McGuane

St. Croix's new Rio Santo series fly rods are priced at only $100-130.

WE'LL BE THE FIRST to admit to a kind of hesitant obsession with fly fishing gear. In the back of our minds, we know that beyond being able to deliver a fly to a fish, fooling that fish into eating and then playing it quickly, the rest is frosting. As a wise old angler once said when the bite was hot and a novice was struggling with his leader, "Just put on four feet of anything."

Nevertheless, a portion of our love of the sport comes from just plain enjoying the gear. Many of us do drive to the local fly shop to shake a few rods, spin a reel, finger wader fabric, or scrutinize the fly bin for some superbug that will set off maniacal attacks by the most difficult fish. We gaze at taper diagrams on the backs of fly line packages without a clue as to how all those little variations in diameter will help us catch fish, though we're sure they will.