Year is Complete but still will fish

Fished last night after a blistering hot day, about 6:00 PM a few fish started to work nothing great but some to keep you busy. I got myself into position across and up from the overhanging tree on the far bank and waited. One fish started to work on the bottom of the small indentation just out from under the tree after 6 good floats he took it, from the start I could see it was big, fumbled around and turned the video camera on (I pushed the button twice and got 3 seconds of video) it was a great fight and when I got him in my hand I could see it was not your typical Penns brown- a true measured 21"+ fish!!! What a relief to finaly get the bugger, sat down to catch my breath then waded back out to try for the top fish, which looks a bit larger. He started to work at the junction of the current and the back water, got at least 3 good presentations to him and of course when he took I was just too fast- nerves! I had the right combination to make the cast, Winston BIIX 8'6" #4 rod and a SA XPS WF4F Grey line with a TroutHunter 10' 5X leader and 18" of Rio 6X tippet attached to a #16 Parachute light Sulphur, using the XPS line gave me the distance that I needed to get to the far bank, something that has not happened while I was using SA Sharkskin lines (they tend to overload the rod at the wrong time). This is not a bullshit story just a fact that I was so dam excited that I screwed the camera up and will have the memory in my mind and the fact that the fish was measured! I need help with the camera operation-HELP.
  Oh heck the only real hatch was a light Invara or Rotunda larger sulphur nothing to write home about. At about 7:30 the sky looked very dark and the wind sounded like a train- time to get out an to the car- call it a night!
  Oh forgot to tell you how to measure a fish, yea Mike it can be done fast.
1. Carry a measure net, just net the fish and add up the total from both side of the net bottom, works well but I do not carry a net just got tired of having the dam thing hit me on the back of the head after it hung up on tree branches. Don't need another item to carry, I'd like to tone it all down, that's why I like Trico's and Terrestrial fishing- you need miminal items.
2. If you have a custom rod built have the maker put trim bands on the rod, above the hook keeper that way you can measure from the butt of the rod up to the marks.
3. Carry what I do, a small plastic bread wrapper tie and measure the fish from the rod butt up and attach the bread tie to the rod, release the fish then measure where the plastic tie is, easy and fast. I'm not big on screwing up a standard fly rod putting tape on it, takes away from the beauty of the finished product.