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My personal collection of ABU/Record lures is in the process of being displayed on a Swedish flag, with the five sections allocated to plugs, spoons, spinners, flies and perks. It will never be complete and hopefully being constantly added to. Sectioned view below.

Continued sequential development has occurred from 1940’s to the present. My experience is concentrating more on from the earliest to the 1980’s

A lure/spinner/bait/fly/plug is our attempt to deceive the fish and entice it into attacking it, either as a food source or purely out of territorial aggression.

The best discourse on Fish feeding habits I have ever read, is to be found in an ABU Tight Lines catalog (Napp och Nytt). When I re-locate it , it will be shared here.

Metal, plastic, wood, feathers or other synthetic materials are all utilized in the battle to attract a strike. More recent times has seen fishermen use smell, flavourings, taste in conjunction with artificals to increase the strike rate.

Detailed Lure Links from ABU Catalogs here

My good friend and tireless helper Uffe Edefuhr has discovered this information on early lure design at ABU.

He has sent me the original Finnish Morrum spinner before ABU modified its design. Also the Professor lookalike and another unnamed deep sea pirk. also you will see here the original special weighted Island lures made for Gote in 12g size rather than usual 7g size for deeper fishing and longer casting. The original handmade lead model for the Krill is here with the first Stainless steel example produced in the factory prior to being stamped and named in production models.

ABU, being innovators in all areas, produced Prototypes of lures to be tested, evaluated and possibly marketed.

Trace the Scandinavian Pedigree / Lineage of the ABU Killer here

Click the image of these beautiful 1940's lures !

Soon to appear here in parts, a quite definitive amount of highly detailed information on the huge variety of ABU lures courtesy of my good friend Mike Elsworth from the UK . He is a passionate researcher and contributer to expanding knowledge of ABU Baits/Lures all around the worth. I feel priveleged that he is so unselfish and willing to share the fruits of his labour of many years in unwrapping the riddles of the developement of ABU Lures.

" Today I talked to my friend Bert Nilsson from Asarum in Blekinge! He was working many years together with Ove Soldemyr! In fact the protos of the weedless Toby that you now have was made by Bert! He told me about the goat hair that he attached to the metal thread on the protos! I did not know that he was in this position working close to Ove! This Bert is the father to the Cleopatra fly reel! He still have one of this protos in his possession! Bert will do some research about Ove for me!! ......

I have today got some news from Bert, my pal in Asarum. He say that the first Toby was made by a man named “Sven-Åke Kullberg” . He made a 18 gram Toby. Later on there were made Toby´s in other sizes and then Ove Soldemyr was the constructor and Bert Nilsson my pal helped him to punch out the metal pieces! " .....to be continued

More info and pictures to follow below soon!

Prototypes here were never for sale, and were shared by good friend Uffe Edefuhr, a one time serious ABU Collector. These have been shared around the world of ABU Collectors before Uffe and I became friends.

To my mind the major categories are Plugs (wobblers), Spoons and Spinners, Flies (ABU Fly and Optic ) as well as Perks (Jigs). These others to be linked when I have myself more organized.

See my hand finished Svangsta Spinnaren here!

More graphics courtesy of ABU catalogs to follow soon. The unusual expression Must lures were commonly referred to.

In the search for all the ABU plugs, I am still looking for a Kynoch, Rakan, bibbed Snorky (large size) and a jointed Killer of any colour or size, for my lure display. Old Record spinners/spoons are still very scarce and yet to be found in my collection also.

MY COLLECTION OF LURES started off very small. See pic

If you have any other lures, that are un-needed or doubles in your collection and are available for swapping or a reasonable fee, I would be very pleased to hear from you.