Pimpel or Ice Fishing Reels
My Own Personal Ice Fishing Collection
...yet to be tried by me as I live in the Tropics!
Tight Lines 1982 Provides these wonderful details
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| I am now looking for a ABU Delphin model 11 and 12 from around 1982 to complete my collection of ABU Pimpel fishing equipment. wayne@realsreels.com | It was an inexpensive blue and yellow plastic model with a red tip. Anyone with one or both and willing to part with same, please contact me here.
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An unusual form of the sport of fishing for most
people in the tropics, but certainly intriguing enough for me to read up on,
ask question of friends in Sweden who practicing the art-form. Topic was
covered extensively in the ABU English catalog of 1967 (and Napp och
Nytt) Links are here 1, 2,
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ABU has produced not only the fishing rods and reels needed , short enough to allow one to stand or squat near the ice hole and still able to see the action under and through the ice hole. The bottom two rods are a never for sale Pimpel1 prototype and a Record 15 to use with a Record Casting reel such as a 1500. Thankyou for selling me my Pimpels (the top two) Fernando! Some great videos can be seen here at this site (when I find it again!). Thanks to Christian for securing me the hand winding pimpel model to the left. |
ABU Issodubbar |
ABU Augers
(side and below)
that are used to cut the hole in the ice were originally hand
operated mechanical devices, though petrol-engined devices are now
readily available as a labour saving tool. I guess moving on to a
more productive area is a much more time consuming task than packing
up to try another area of the lake in summer. I believe ice can be
anything from 10cm to 100cm deep over some waters.
 My friend Sören from Sweden, who may be organizing for this ABU auger to come to my collection, tells me this amazing story.... "I am a big fan of fishing and my oldest
son, age 9 is that too. When possible he comes with me on
fishingcompetions. My wife was this spring at a flea market. We have
talked about that my son should have an auger on his own to drill
the holes. She found it on the market and bought it for SEK 50. The
intention was to saw it off to proper length to our son. When she
got home and I saw it was ABU I couldn't bring myself to do this. It
should have been a sacrilege."
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Locations obviously are in very cold areas, and not merely limited to the
Scandinavian countries. I know Canadians who fish for perch in their
ice-over farm dams. I am reliably informed that 4cm of ice thickness is
sufficiently strong to hold a man's weight. However that said , many would
prefer the thickness to be closer to 10cm. I think the first time I venture
into ice (sometime when I visit some of my cold climate friends) it will be
with some concern. Simon Rekestad has kindly supplied these images.
My friends such as Uffe and have supplied pictures from ice-fishing trips in
the wilderness of Lappland . See Photos 1, 2, 3 Please note fire
bucket for warmth. I have heard some even erect little wind shelter huts on
the ice too.
Quite often access to these remote spots is by ice-scooters but the usual is
walking onto the lake and dragging one's equipment on a small sled using a
backpack!
Some of the quarry are Arctic Char, Grayling, Perch
etc I suspect the fish are filleted and frozen merely by leaving them on the
ice.
If you have any other Pimpels or ice fishing jigs other than those
illustrated , that are
unneeded or doubles in your collection and are available for a reasonable
fee, I would be very pleased to hear from you. I cannot afford to collect
Mint, in-box or unused reels at present, until my children have completed
their education.