While these new reels not only provide the desired higher retrieve gear ratio, but also incorporate the unrivaled Abu-Garcia quality, nevertheless, the bass fisherman who already possesses an armory or array of Abu-Garcia Ambassadeur 50 bait casting reels is faced with the necessity of (if he desires to own fast retrieve reels) purchasing a whole new set of expensive, though quality reels. The Garcia Corporation itself, in its Ambassadeur 5500 C and 6500C, as well as the Ambassadeur 7000, has now provided to the public fast retrieve reels which, instead of the conventional 3 and 3/4 to 1 retrieve ratio of the classic Ambassadeur reels, provide the new and desired 4.44 to 1 retrieve ratio. Within the last several years, there have been developed high speed or fast retrieve reels which achieve (without inconvenience or discomfort to the fisherman) the quicker return of the cast bait or lure. Since the introduction to the United States market of the said Garcia-Abu reels, new and effective bass lures have been developed which, for best results, require what has come to be known as a "fast retrieve." That is, the bait must be pulled in or retrieved by the bass fisherman at a greater rate of speed than that provided by comfortable operation of the conventional reels in order to obtain maximum results from these new lures.
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It is estimated that there exists a minimum of 10 million reels of the Garcia-Abu Ambassadeur 50 Series in the United States. One additional factor involved in this tremendous quantity of sales (other than the undeniable quality of the Abu-Garcia reel, per se) lies in the propensity of bass fishermen to aggregate, individually, each a large number of reels. Literally millions of these reels have been sold to bass fishermen in the United States in the last 15 years.
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The Ambassadeur 50 Series of bass fishing reels manufactured in Svangsta, Sweden by ABU Aktiebolag and sold in the United States by the Garcia Corporation of 329 Alfred Avenue, Teaneck, N.J., comprise the very cream of the bass fishing reels available to the public and bass fishing fraternity.