Article: New fishing lines sure to please.(SPORTS)(OUTDOORS)

Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Two different fishing lines have been introduced by Pure Fishing, the Iowa-based parent company of stellar tackle brands like Abu Garcia, Fenwick, Berkley, Johnson, Mitchell, Red Wolf and Spider.

Berkley's new IronSilk is not a conventional monofilament but rather a line that, thanks to a research breakthrough, employs chemistry known as "reinforced chemical matrix." Berkley's laboratories have come up with a way that molecularly reinforces nylon molecules (pardon the apparently redundant use of the words). It can be favorably compared to construction concrete that is reinforced with steel rods, only this ...

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