Links

Fishing with ABU  (Japanese site)  http://www.geocities.com/fishingwithabu/

Take's Reel Room                http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~take300/index.htm

William Brown's Trip to Mongolia Catching the fabled Hucho Taimen Salmon.

Steve Stracqualursi's " Way Upstream  Fly fishing And All That Relates" Steve loves to fish a vintage ABU Delta, enjoy!

Earl's Antique Fishing Tackle  http://www.fishingcollectables.com/

 Sasha's ABU Cardinal & Dam Reel Site http://www.saschas-sammler-homepage.de/

Minature Morrum Ambassadeur   http://www.keysteps.com/mini-rods-reels/AbuGarcia.htm

Carmilla and Kjell's Sportfishing Museum at Byske http://www.sportfishingmuseum.eu/

Kob Pat's  ABU website from Thailand

Jerry Foran's Hookless Custom Ambassadeur Reel Building USA 

Jim's Reel Shop Independent UK ABU and Mitchell Outlet

Paul Brown (UK)  www.abuambassadeur.co.uk

Surfmaster,  Jacques Wolmarans,  A South African ABU fan

www.salmonfisher.com   My friend Jacob sells ABU lures. Please contact him.

Shep's Tackle box A new site from USA with lots more ABU to appear soon.

Fred Ribb's Classic ABU Information Page...USA

Steve Vernon's Antique Fishing Reels site

Brian Mc Owen's     Vintage ABU for Sale

The Flyrod Company.

John is a very affable chap who can help those needing a custom flyrod handcrafted with care.

He has helped me source an old Record Double Flyreel. Many thanks!

ABU and Garcia in USA have had a long co-operative relationship. The only hitch was when Mitchell reels from France were being already marked by Garcia in USA, so ABU had to look for the different organization to market its fine ABU Cardinal Spinning reels. This was done by by Zebco in USA.

This fine site will appeal to many collectors who also collect Mitchell as well as ABU.

Wallace Carney labours hard with the same passion as I do here, to create this high quality and continually developing website. Like this site, it is not a commercial entity, despite looking like one, and it is also a Not for Profit, benefit to all interested collectors creation. Please support his endeavours to share.

Keith Wichmann  New Importer/Sole Agent for Everol USA (251) 648-3210 World's Finest Fishing Reels since 1958

Your Grandson's Next Reel This link is here because of the my love of the ABU Admiral made by Everol in Italy 49 years ago. They have exactly the same demanding ideals today as A.B.Urfabriken did in their first 50 years! Keith has recently taken over as the sole importer of Everol into the USA. Please consider these big game reels. I have one and will be getting more to fill the size gap where ABU no longer sells.

Collector's Advice Site

My good friend Petri from Finland  has some of the finest hand crafted artistic lures from anywhere in the world

Enjoy his wonderful new website www.fishskinlures.com

Collector's Weekly USA  http://www.collectorsweekly.com/fishing/abu-ambassadeur

Web Forums

Dr Todd's BlogSpot "History of Fishing"

The Whitefish Press

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportfisher/messages

http://www.oldfishingstuff.com/forum/index.php

http://orcaonline.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb

ABU Books   Essential ABU Reading

Catalogues

Catalogs however, like Tight lines and Napp och Nytt, are inexpensive for recent editions and blindingly expensive  for the oldest and rarest editions. I have 1966 to present for the N&N but only about one third of the number for the Tight Lines.

I am presently trying to research how many countries ABU was marketed in via their famous catalogs. I would appreciate anyone who could  forward details that may help me. I am looking for names, dates and maybe a scanned image of the front page.

These free current edition catalogs are a wonderful resource for the beginning fisher. The most expensive first edition N&N I saw changed hands recently for nearly one thousand dollars at auction. Unfortunately 2005 will be the last of these catalogs.

A replacement yearly catalog will be produced to target the present 4500 products.

ABU Garcia Yearbooks are also another source of information from the sixties which incidentally I've just discovered. Anyone wanting to swap/trade some for Tight Lines or Napp och Nytt (identical catalog but only Swedish version)?

Useful Aussie Lure plating Company

I have had one of each of my treasured ABU lures, successfully Gold plated here.

Aussie Fishing Blogs

Aussie Lure Fishing Forums (including ABU)

Unique Aussie Wooden  'Hand -Made" Lure Manufacturers

From Australia, very comprehensive, Contributers with world wide lure interests.