Significant ABU Friends

Uffe Edefuhr

Uffe Edefuhr , a long time but until now , an unmet helpful  friend  from Sweden who recently spent 2 weeks holidaying  and fishing with me,  has been subjected to my poor  interview here .... 

He was born in Stockhom and as a youth he spent a lot of time on his  grand parents farm and later moved to the south of Sweden. Fishing and ABU came to him early in life, not realizing that much later he would live close to the Morrum and the home of ABU at Svangsta.

We have established a 'mateship' and rest of life friendship over the last 6 or so years and most especially over the 2 weeks we fished, ate, drank and told stories  together!

Some more snaps here from my home area.

Some snaps from Uffe's home area.

When were you aware of fish to be caught ? Sea, lake or  river?

As young as 6 or 7 years, and on freshwater river and  lakes.

Tell me about your earliest fishing experiences?

Older brothers provided the interest by catching and bringing home fish  and I was envious of their catches.

How soon were you are of ABU as a fishing tackle manufacturer?

_{I guess this interest came by it self. In the spring as a kid I was first in line to get the Napp & Nytt from the sport shop. It was a day of joy when the N&N was in my hand. I could read it thousands of times, dreaming of all the beautiful baits and reels.}

First rod/reel?

Record 1600 casting reel, Record 2 steel rod. Also given a Roddymatic , a Japanese reel when young.

Favourite fishing reel/rod ?

As a child of eleven, my first serious reel was a Abumatic 120 on an old ABU 82 fibreglass rod. Was given to me as a Christmas present.

Did you upgrade or keep older fishing equipment?

Always got better one, collecting came much later. When I found older baits I always collected them on a board on the wall.

Do you practice different types of fishing? Fly, spin, pimple ice- jigging, baitcast, deep sea?

Will fish all types ways. Champion in Southern Sweden for ice –fishing in 1996

Memorable experiences?

Catching my biggest Pike of >10kgs. My first was just 200g when I was 9 years of age.  Likewise many Perch when 9 also.

Collecting When you started , ....

I was about 12/13 years when i started collecting Baits, but it was not until the 80’s that i started seriously collecting all ABU /Record items.

You were in my mind the BEST ABU collector but gave the interest  away and now support guys like myself. Why ?

Something happened to my collecting mind when I first got my collection of N&N together. It was a sad thing as I remember it. What should I then collect? Nowadays I think it’s nice to help other persons practicing my old hobby. As being a Swede I have had the opportunity to find nice older Swedish made fishing gear like ABU.

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