The FET, at hook up I was wondering if I was even setting the hook but talk about tippet protection & feel, bad pic but I wanted to show off the big feesh, big for me anyway. On the lower D I don't land to many of this caliber, the norm is that I get spooled or they break or just come unpinned, I wonder how much this soft rod helped? 
Heddon and a slim one
My daughter & I were camped right here, I was looking at my fly box & wondering what the heck was blowing into it (ash) then the smoke began billowing over the hills across the river, we got outa there.
These last four pics are of last year & May or June of this year, it could have been so much worse & I give a shout out to those who stopped it. The grass is easy, it will take awhile for the tree's.
