ABU Ambassadeur  reels need servicing to work over time. And if you take the time and effort, you will have a reel that may last you a life time. My ABU Ambassadeur 6500 CS Rocket is 15 years old, and my latest purchase, a red ABU 7000 is 20 years old, and both reels are still going strong, and is in use on every fishing trip. Since I go fishing several times a week, I use a pretty hard maintenance schedule. After every trip I [...]

I tried to do some maintenance on the ABU Ambassadeur 7000i C3 i purchased a couple of years ago. It was not the first time I opened it up, but the sinking feeling of disappointment was still there as the plastic-fantastic guts of it was revealed. My confidence in this reel was initially quite okay. But it has grown worse as the reel as deteriorated in front of my eyes. And it has not really been used that much. The heaviest load it has experienced [...]