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Old 06-11-2009, 06:00 PM
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Default Float tubes 1899 Style!
I spotted this on the wall of a 'Rod Room' in National Trust property.

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Advert in the Fishing Gazette of 1899!

Blimey. I thought they were a newish idea.

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with a good old stirrup pump to inflate it aswell..........
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Brilliant! Wouldn't mind a copy of that poster.
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Must be for the foreign market. Any Englishman of that era could walk on water.
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