Record and ABU Catalogs
These
catalogs fall into 2 broad types:
1.
Those dedicated to and produced by ABU (
in 14 languages)
2.
General Purpose usually collated ABU equipment lists, from
other manufacturers around the world
Click on the current 2017 Swedish digital ABU Garcia catalog
USA
catalogs here, including Garcia, Zebco and Burke Industries
ABU/Record worldwide catalog phenomonen!
I have most English Tight Lines and Swedish examples to share here.
I am looking for English TL 1956, 1957,1959, 1962, and (Swedish N&N are now completed) if anyone can help .
I do have quite a collection of doubles in many languages to swap.
I am looking for any Russian, Czech, Polish, Spanish ABU catalog
My
most recent and treasured paper acquisition was this group of
professionally bound ABU Tight Lines catalogs starting from the
beginning here in 1957 , obviously omitting 1963 as it was never
printed, and ending with 1972. I would like to acquire the next
few volumes from 1973 to 2001 when the Tight Lines ceased to be
published. If you can help, please contact me via this site abuadmiral@gmail.com
While the original Swedish first sales advice re ABU products
appeared from 1941, the first able to be read by rest of the
English speaking world was the
Record Fishing Tackle
, followed by the " You Can Rely of Record"
and the official English language Tight Lines
Catalogs for nearly the next 50 years. Of course, the
Swedish "Napp och Nytt" started in 1948 and still continue
to this day.
(first shared here by Mike Elsworth of Wales UK
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1958 Tight Lines ....
(Now confirmed that this catalog was never printed)
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1963 ABU Tight Lines
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Many thanks to Hans van der Pauw in Holland, for advice on ABU's non printing of the 1963 Tight Lines.
TL 1963 does NOT exist. After TL 1962 the TL 1964 was released, probably a short time before the Napp och Nytt 1964 catalog. For For TL 1964 they used the cover and contents of Napp och Nytt 1963
A
Unique 1963 ABU Selected New Products Catalog
Images kindly supplied by Sven Eriksson Gothenburg
A
Unique 1964 ABU Selected New
Products Catalog
1964 Svangsta Casting Championship Results
Full catalog scans will be released each year
on their 5oth Anniversary
My personal connection with ABU started via lures from 1966 and the Tight lines catalogs available in local tackle stores.
This trade catalog below , I never knew about until a couple of years's ago , when I just bought it from Anders in Sweden.
There is a lot of useful info (despite being in Swedish) within, and I learned that the Toby BGL which I loved using, was just released this year. I was using it and Hilo as my first ( ABU ) lure experiences.
I would have to wait till next year to get a hold of the fabulous ABU Killer aka Rebel Company from USA which Len Borgstrom bought! I never saw the first style Killers here in Australia, mainly due to limited range at my local fishing tacklle outlets. They were available in the big cities, I have since learned.
These pages were primarily intended for staff at retail sales points. Click on each for complete page scans
Hans has his nostalgia Tight Lines 67 page here.
1970
ABU Tight Lines .......
the latest ABU TL
catalog release to be found on this
site
Click on each for complete page scans
Around the world......and Over the years.....
Numerous Phamplets, catalogs, booklets, fliers over time and place , were informative and tastefully compiled to attract and interest fishers.
Behind the Iron Curtain in Russia
( this a 16
fold flier)
UK champ Dave Thomas and the ABU 506 with coarse fishing.
Double-sided 3 part folded ABU Phamplet from 1981
Some fine examples of the Swedish ABU Tackle Catalogs from the start in 1948 are wonderful to read and imagine flicking through the pages and making tackle decisions of the year. I own many but friend Mikael Risberg has kindly let me use his previously scanned Napp och Nytt front covers to to save me many hours work!
I now own most copies of the English Tight Lines and all Swedish Napp och Nytt catalogues and have some in double and would love to swap my doubles for ABU Record items of interest to me.
I am intrigued at knowing the full extent of ABU's global domination of the fishing world brought about by the production and distribution of their free catalogs. English, Irish, Swedish, German, Netherlands, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, French, Spanish, Polish, Czech and Russian are some I have heard of. I would love to secure a copy of these highlighted in red to share here. Perhaps there are more?
English Swedish
Norwegian Finnish
Italian catalog named Tight Lines
German Petri Heil
Friend Christian, ex-patriot Swede living in Austria, has sent me this collection of German language ABU catalogs.
French first appeared as Bonne Peche in 1956 then under ABU Year Dates later, below
Note F on on spine of 1982 issue
and no F as this 85 catalog is a thinner folded and not spined catalog
The Dutch/Belgium issue was built on
the German style Petri Heil catalog
You will notice some minor variations in these 4 Dutch Petri Heil ABU catalog
The Irish or Eire ABU catalog
was identical to the English Tight Lines with the exception of Eire being printed on the spine
Hungarian ABU Catalogs from 1975 and 1978 below
Help finding one copy of these countries below would be appreciated
Portuguese to appear here soon
Spanish and Russian (needed)
Polish
(needed)
Czech
(needed)
Some ABU Catalog anomolies here
STRANGE! WHY I WONDER?
From 1960 and today there is all in Norwegian. The catalogs on the picture are Norwegian catalogs with Swedish text on the front page. I don't have the catalog from 58 in Norwegian text.
Note: These English French and German variations of 1956 ABU Catalogs and 1955 Rely on Record Special catalogs marketed in England and Spain.
More interesting info on French ABU catalogs has come to light due to my friend Jim Partridge (UK).
At one time the French ABU catalogs were named Bonne Peche (1971) and later they were named in English "Tight Lines" being published in French language up to at least 1985
Likewise my Japanese copy from the same anniversary year 1971, it is titled on the cover as Tight Lines but published in Japanese.
I guess English was thought to be the universal language, but it does not explain why German, always named Petri Heil and other from Europe has their distinctive catalog names.
Paul Berghaus really got ABU going int he early days with massive purchases of their Record and ABU reels named Pebco.
This 1960 Fiskredskap catalog from 1960 is facinating as it shows their huge inventory of fishing equipment for sale. It is interesting as we can trace much ABU fishing equipment here and also see products from other companies. Click this cover image to look at selected pages.
Some general purpose Outdoors products companies like the one below sold quality shooting and fishing equipment and issued their own dedicated catalogs
Click
on Allt för jakt och
fiske below
Did
you know a German or Austrian company by the
name of Rossler actually produced a high quality
fishing catalog in 70's and 80's which featured
(independent from the Swedish catalogs) their
own formatted advertizements for our beloved ABU
products?
Look for high quality scans of relevant pages
from 1978 issue here, soon as time permits.
More here
later courtesy of Jan Eggers contacts!
Catalogs mentioning ABU were also produced by the Kilwell Company in New Zealand
Kilwell of NZ produced a 50th Anniversary catalog for ABU and other manufacturers as well as their own
Here John Fishkat shares the Certificate of Incorporation which tells of the ABU connection to Kilwell from 1964 to 1985
Catalogs mentioning ABU were also produced by the Kilwell Company in New Zealand
A UK ABU angler and collector John Cheyne has kindly shared a mail order catalogue here
Milbro Seanson 1963 Catalog
Please share you findings on ABU catalogs here.
I
still seek to buy a 1960 Tight Lines Catalog if
you have one to sell.
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