Need a wine bottle opened ??? Halco Twirler |
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TTragic
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Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 12:33pm |
found a few of these around.....not sure how well they worked on fish ...but handy if you need to knock the top off a bottle of plonk
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Tony
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haha Definately an interesting one Andrew, sure loooks like it would make a lot of disturbance in the water.
I'd better not let my wife see that or I'll be searching for one of them! I've got a few Halco's here I should dig out and put up, mostly knocked up, but I think some interesting ones and certainly great fish catchers! Keep the Halcos coming please Andrew, I love to learn more about Aussie lures! |
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Alistair
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I have seen these but never used one. I just see too much line twist generated from them, even with a swivel.
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Alistair.
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Abuadmiral
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Hi
Proves there is nothing new under the sun! Check out how similar these lures are that were made in Sweden by ABU 66 years ago They have the advantage of getting the lure won deep too as they were mainly fished in very fast flowing Nordic rivers. The eye I guess was a fish attractant too. Some old lures from ABU could be reversed, so 10 cats twisting this way. Click..10 cast twisting in reverse direction, so good idea. will try to find them and post if anyone interested in seeing them, give a reply. cheers wayne Svängsta-spinnaren The Svangsta Spinner (Svängsta-spinnaren) aka The Screw (Skruven) A very early Abu bait, made in the classic "spiral" fashion. In good condition these have fantastic painted eyes. Abu made and sold these from 1944 until 1957 in three sizes 3 " / 25 g, 2.5" /20 g and 2" / 12 g. Known colours were S, K, G, Z, Cr, S/G, S/K and the incredible hand finished lure that Wayne has here (Wayne link to your scale monster here). I have shown all 3 sizes, two are in S/G, one is Z. If you look closely at the left hand 3" lure you can see marks on the body that could only have been made by hand tooling. This shows the extent to which the lures were largely "hand made", in a "workshop" in the early Abu days. In fact the eyes also were nothing more than rivets which were shaped and painted. You may also notice from my photograph that the baits were made in clockwise and anti-clockwise spinning versions, yet another response to the old problem of line twist ? I have also seen these lures with a single (reverse) hook, pirk or (pirkar) style. This lure was a very productive bait in its time and highly sought after today. Please enjoy my ultra rare hand engraved and one of a few Svängsta-spinnaren like it around today.
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Tony
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Awesome lure Wayne, thanks for sharing it
It looks beautifully made |
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TTragic
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HOW NICE DO THEY LOOK
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Abuadmiral
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Yes guys still looking for a lot more of these and the others here
http://www.realsreels.com/wishlist.aspx but I don't think they were ever inporrted into Australia. Contact me if you recon you have something to trade or squeeze some dollars out of me for please. re the line twist discussion before, see early ABU Hogbom! These were reputedly brilliant but no first hand experience, yet! May rish k one in the ocean one day but the princeple is obvious and I recon it would go gangbusters with swapping over left to right every now and then. The Hogbom Spinner
Phamplet from 1944 included with Record Casting reel. I hope the picture allow you to see how the stainless steel wite connecting swivel at top and hook at bottom can be slotted eithe r left or right thus controlling the spin of lure. Must actually take a better picture of this. My own versions above are showing the later 70's version in orange (right) and the first 25 g 75mm chrome with eye bead (left) and 50mm 20g version in Chrome like Mike's above. More on site....www.realsreels.com
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CaptainCranky
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Wayne,still in Japan.Yesterday way up in the hills near Nagano I stumbled across a tiny tackle shop that was most interesting.Up on the wall it had the best 2 sets of Abu lures that I have ever seen.The old lady behind the counter said that they were in the shop when they bought it in the 60,s.She said they were the old owners and that they could never sell them as they have been passed down by ancestors.
No amount of coaxing was going to get them as it was a spiritual thing for the shop.When I get back I will try to post some pics.It was very hard to get permission to take pics and when I did she would not let me take them down off the wall to photogragh so they will not be good as the perspex cases they were in were reflecting light everywhere due to the position on the wall and the lighting in the shop.There were 2 cases each with about 30 lures in each and a lot I had never seen before.
More to come later,Barry
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Abuadmiral
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Thanks for thinking of me mate
Do apprecite the effort
Can't wait to see pics
Hope you have an address /e-mail /phone number to contact later perhaps?
They may appreciate my effort to imortalize ABU too.
Perhaps you passed onthe addess anyway.
Nice to hear from you, talk again soon
TL
Wayne
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