Personal Interest Details
My primary acknowledgement must surely go to my son
Fintan who has done
all the hard work involved in making this dream of my having an ABU website
a reality. The rest of the family, Anne my wife of nearly 30 years and my
ever disgracefully disparaging but witty youngest son Declan, who tolerate
my obsession with ABU
Proud ABU Collectors / Fishermen
The ABU Iron Gang at Korsor Swap Meet 2011
Uffe, Wolfgang, Knud, Dirk and Thomas
Skalderviken The ABU boys Surfcasting at Sunset
Southern Sweden Wolf Uffe Knud Dirk Tim Parratt Australia
(courtesy Uffe E)
Re-catching old fish, no bigger fish than the one that got away!
I would also be very remiss if I didn't
especially acknowledge my
very good and longest known Swedish mate, Uffe Edefuhr, who has been instrumental in helping me get this
site up and running thanks to so much accurate advice and many photographs supplied
along with huge volumes of e-mail, Skype and even occasional MSN video
conferences. THE man in the ABU world who knows and his respected by all not
only for his knowledge but also for his manner to all. Spanish
mackeral are our favourite sportfish. Uffe insisted on me using this photo of him holding a
slightly smaller fish so as not to embarass me! Kyo (from
ABU-mania) has a nice fat rainbow
trout! Mate Lins (below right visits from Brisbane Qld, every year to go
head to head with Art and I , in confirming who is the best fishernman on
the day! Check out
Max's fine Huchen specimen.
Jan Sjoblom CEO ABU Svangsta
10kg Pike below
Pro. Oyvind Bruland Norway Vintage ABU and 7.1kg
Salmo Salar
Johnny M and Len
Borgstrom Steelhead Fishing in Vancouver BC, Len Bass fishing
400mm Mangrove Jack on
popper and 3kg Custom Ulf Tingstom Ambassadeur 2500
Fredrik Nilsson and beautiful
Seatrout of 10kg Oresund Sweden
Some Japanese friends, Kyo
and trout, and Ken T's Snakehead
Recently I received some
family photos of very young fisherwomen and parent
using both Abumatic and Ambassadeur reels to catch salmon in the Frazer
River Canada. Thanks Mike, great to see the fans of a new generation!
Since beginning this endeavour, I have
made many hundreds of
e-mail contacts with sellers and I could not hope to mention them all
personally but they do have the opportunity to sign into the Guestbook
provided (which will soon be fixed) and participate in the forums soon.
In no particular order, Rob Jansssen, Len and
Carl Borgstrom, the two Jans, Jack
Erskine, Mike Harrison, Big Mike, Rune, Carmilla and Kjell, Clinton Beeler (of Zebco fame) Peter (Harro), Morgan Bengtsson, Christian
M, Daniel Skupien, Simon
Shimomura, Glen Eriksson, Ove Agdahl, Frank Jones, Mikael Risberg, M.Ho Sifu,
Marco, Guepiot, Christian, Jean Paul, Piet, 2 Peters, Andy, Steen, Ray Hays, Mats, Rikk, Carson, Patrick and Stu
Lawson, thanks for the interesting regular e-mail.
You can help further extend my ABU collection if
you wish to
contact me via e-mail for an unlinked webpage.
My interests beyond fishing (and other than my work as a
supply
primary school teacher.
I retired today 27/01/2009 form full time teaching ) are
many and varied and include travel, gardening, photography, eating/cooking,
wine tasting and swallowing, home theatre/cinema and shooting.