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In reply to Post #30
I got the idea off Baz Griffiths fishing on Llandrindod Wells in the 80s... That boy could fish 
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In reply to Post #29
nope people started looking for them after Brian and I started using them trust me the ones from the motorway boxes were bigger and later you could not buy Isotopes when I bought the show samples
they did for a while sell Beta lights not sure if they are still allowed ? but they were encased in plastic a much shorter life instead of glass
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I read the original Isotopes where nicked from some form of roadside emergency breakdown box? Which where indeed super bright from what I recall from the story I read/heard.
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In reply to Post #17
Remember those isotopes in a Fairy Liquid bottletop wafting on a 3 foot drop at Darenth in the early 70s.
Was surreal to see them jump up in the dark, yes they were indeed brighter😁
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In reply to Post #26
people in the know upgraded from the tip up shytey ratchet sun lounger to the lafuma and thats a bit of foam and a cover made out of a pair of old curtains
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In reply to Post #21
I thought bedchairs where not around until the mid eighties? Sun loungers where the thing, then again I was a kid and my paper round wouldn’t have afforded me one anyhow.
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In reply to Post #21
I thought that Oliver Reed at first glance
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Only two manufacturers in the world and as Gerry has mentioned age and size.
Years ago it would be a 300 or 500 rating I have a 500 rating that’s 34 years old from a float I had as a kid. Still works and the half life is ten years plus. Can still see it from a few meters away, now housed in a bic pen case that’s strapped to my net float that I made. Sewing machines are great.
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In reply to Post #22
is that a polite way of saying Im a fat **** now  
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In reply to Post #21
Looks cosy  Do you look at your old pics and think who the hells that too 
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In reply to Post #20
only picture I have wearing the cold store Jacket long time ago Cut Mill pond Farnham late 60s to early 70s when I fished there
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In reply to Post #19
Things like this need collating Gerry, your experience echoes that like Dave from Kryston, stand out moments that have influenced generations. I can't help but feel that the younger generation take so many things forgranted, having said that the pace at which stuff evolves nowadays is breath taking, for better or worse
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In reply to Post #18
lol there were a few things in one of Clive Dietrich and Malcolm Winkworths videos they mention and are seen with some green coldstore suits with red lining
I was m8s with Malcolm ( lovely bloke taken so young ) and I made a delivery to a very large cold store company in Wandsworth and it was huge forklifts running around inside and they were wearing these cold store suits
I mentioned to the guy I could do with buying one for winter fishing he said well they make them in the factory next door !! but dont sell to the public but I can ring him for you and pull some strings and so thats how we got the suits 1st I got 2 made then Malcolm and Clive wanted some and in the end I had about a dozen made those were happy days
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In reply to Post #17
That deserves a mention in a history of Carp fishing somewhere down the line
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In reply to Post #16
I think I was possibly one of if not the first person to use isotopes
I should explain in late 60s early 70s I was driving a truck and made a delivery to a factory that was at the time supplying isotopes for all sorts of things emergency exit signs Aircraft instruments marine compass etc
and the guy said they had just done a trade show and showed me a load of different sample sizes and shapes I got really excited and begged him to sell me 4 so I could use them for fishing in the end he sold me 4 it was 2 for me and 2 for my fishing partner
then we had the problem of how to mount them first I tried a hair grip and a cork on a tether but then quite by chance I found that on the inside of a fairy liquid bottle top the isotope pushed in and fitted perfect also you didnt need the tether as it clipped on the line and stayed on and at a convenient time in the fight you could unclip it I must add they were incredibly powerful they would light up the ground under them ( I dont think at that time bottle tops were being used either? )
sadly legislation has reduced the power by loads to what they were health and safety and all that
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