EFTTA promotes line testing project in Italy and publishes further line test results

EFTTA, the European Fishing Tackle
Trade Association, has updated its listing of randomly tested monofilament
lines online at www.eftta.com. Twice a
year, EFTTA randomly buys monofilament samples from across the world and tests
these samples in an independent laboratory on their diameter and breaking
strength.

The results are then published in
the international press, on the EFTTA website and at EFTTEX, the European
Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition, which this year will take place from 13-15^th
June in Fiera di Roma, Rome.

Last month EFTTA promoted the line
testing project at the FIPO 2008 fishing show in Bologna.  Janet Doyle of EFTTA comments “on our stand
we had posters and banners listing the companies whose lines have already
passed the EFTTA line test and have been awarded the EFTTA logo.  We received positive feedback from exhibitors
and visitors participating at FIPO 2008 and hope this will encourage line
companies to submit their lines for testing”

Manufacturers, wholesalers and
retailers alike are always interested in receiving the new latest results of
our testing rounds. It allows them to benchmark their products against competitors’
products and it guides retailers as to which monofilaments they should offer in
their shops.

EFTTA already publishes the line
test results in consumer magazines and sets up links with a wide range of
European fishing websites. “The response and interest we receive is tremendous.
People kept phoning in asking us what other lines we would be testing and they
were particularly interested in receiving information on lines that passed the
EFTTA approved logo”, Sally Steel of EFTTA comments. “It’s great to see that
the consumer is finally being educated about the situation with wrong labelling
on fishing lines. By checking out the EFTTA website they can make an educated
choice of what line to purchase in the future.”

EFTTA introduced the line testing
programme in 2004 and has since awarded EFTTA approved logos to more than 90
lines. These lines have been tested in laboratory controlled conditions and
indicate the correct diameter and breaking strength on the packaging of their
lines. A comprehensive list of these lines is available online at www.eftta.com.

For more information on EFTTA’s line
test project, please contact Victoria Seymour on victoriaseymour@eftta.com or
phone +44.20.7253.0777.

For the latest random line test results, please see
chart below:-

 

Line	Stated diameter	Actual diameter	Stated breaking strength	Actual breaking strength
Daiwa TDR Competition, Japan	0.20mm	0.201mm	2.72kg	3.407kg
Maver Dual Band, Italy	0.20mm	0.242mm	5.70kg	4.475kg
Okuma Ultramax, Svendsen	0.20mm	0.197mm	1.8kg	2.668kg
Sylcast, Profish Germany	0.22mm	0.279mm	2.72kg	4.533kg
Ghost Line, Profish Germany	0.20mm	0.203mm	2.72kg	3.062kg
Drennan super specialist super mono	0.20mm	0.205mm	1.8kg	2.987kg
Drennan Float Fish	0.22mm	0.226mm	2.75kg	2.854kg
Gorilla UC-4 Original, Tubertini	0.20mm	0.215mm	4.8kg	3.661kg