Northwest Fishing Reports

I bought a Abu Garcia Olympian rod and Ambassadaur reel about a month ago from Joe's when they started selling off there stuff. Well Friday I decided to try it out on a ling and would you believe it broke on the first hook set??? I called the factory and they want me to send them the pole and a note and then $10 and if they decide it was not my fault they will replace it?? What?? If my warranty was this way I would loose customers and that is what they just did!

Scott

First off they do not make great Rods I don't know about poles:cyclopsan my flags and lights are still standing:cheers:

They have many Great and better then average Reels:-$

Buying combo systems 99 percent of the time are flaggers , taggers to blow Crap out and most are junk:-$

The 5 percent fish:thumleft: the 95 percent fishless systems :viking:

Abu Garcia makes good reels and thats what they do best.

Abu Garcia makes great reels as rafish said.

As swedefish4life1 mentioned, combo sets usually are crappy products. Those combos at Joes were about $80, no way your going to get a quality reel and rod for that price....Those exact combo setups sat around in Joes Sports for months, sometimes more than a year, and probably were banged around and dropped by customers pulling them off the racks....

By rods from good rod companies, and reels from companies that specialize in reels.

Bashing Abu Garcia is a pretty stupid...Spend some time around other fisherman and you'll see that many have Abu Garcia reels, especially the salmon/steelhead guys who put a beating on their gear....

Blackmouth wrote: combo sets usually are crappy products. Spend some time around other fisherman and you'll see that many have Abu Garcia reels, especially the salmon/steelhead guys who put a beating on their gear....

This says it all:-"

YEP, rods suck. Lesson learned I guess.

All my level wind reels are Abu and I figured that since this was an all ABU combo with a very nice steelhead/Salom reel that the pole must be ok too. I guessed wrong. I will replace the pole with a better one and no worries as I have been breaking poles/Rods since I was 5. I was talking to Grandpa today he is 98 and lives at Fish lake . All by himself. He said I broke many of his nice poles over the years trekking through the woods and such but he also said he would let me break them all just to spend the time out on the water with me. We loved to fish and I was always up and ready to go! He is the reason I spent the time on the water I do. I was watching "City Limits Fishing" Last night and Mike said something at the end of the show that hit home for me!

"It's the failure that keeps me coming back"

And I agree the excitement I have looking forward to trying again! I never give up and will prevail in my adventures because I will never quit trying.
Scott

littlefishingbuddy wrote: "It's the failure that keeps me coming back"

I'm stealing this

Yep great reels, not so great rods. Sorry about your rod.

littlefishingbuddy wrote:I bought a Abu Garcia Olympian rod and Ambassadaur reel about a month ago from Joe's when they started selling off there stuff. Well Friday I decided to try it out on a ling and would you believe it broke on the first hook set??? I called the factory and they want me to send them the pole and a note and then $10 and if they decide it was not my fault they will replace it?? What?? If my warranty was this way I would loose customers and that is what they just did!

Scott

I have a St Croix that I paid $20 to send to them then $10 to get it back. It was a bad rod. It was peeling after only having it four months (hardly fished and it only caught a stocker trout). It seems like that is the new warranty no matter what you pay. You pay for shipping so the store doesn't have to.I have a Quantum rod and the tip eye was bad. I was told eyes (guides) are not covered.

It is too bad you guys do not have a Gander Mountain out there. You break one of their RODS, bring it back in and get a new one free, regardless of how it breaks. Ive had lamiglass, kinda spendy, broke them of a hookset, St. Croix, same thing...All RODS can be broke. Even ugly sticks.

I have a Lamiglas that I broke the tip. My fault that I broke it actually. Contacted them and they sent me a replacement for $50 and told me to keep the broken one. Replaced the tip for a couple of dollars and only lost about 1/2 inch off the length of the rod and now both my baitcasters are sporting Lamis.

They don't call it 'Customer No-Service' for a reason.

mav186 wrote:They don't call it 'Customer No-Service' for a reason.

Am right with you there. Just seems these days you don't actually get to see true "Customer Service" very much anymore.