The Review Process

The Review Process – How It Works

review process - how it works on eTackle

Making an informed choice about the purchase of fishing tackle is pivotal to your overall angling experience, especially as many items don’t come cheap. A critical aspect of this decision-making process involves unbiased and reliable reviews based on expertise from other anglers.

While many websites offer reviews of fishing tackle, they often demonstrate a bias towards products sold on specific platforms. Moreover, these sites often lack efficient organisation.

At eTackle, we aim to address these issues by using personal experiences as well as consolidating and aggregating pre-existing information into an easily navigable database of products. Here, you can filter by type, attributes, and review ratings, simplifying your search for the perfect tackle item.

Our Review Process

Every product on eTackle is assessed based on a set of key attributes that are crucial to the item under review. These products are rated on a scale of 1-10, drawing on insights from both personal experiences and independent experts specialising in the respective product domain.

We thoroughly research every product, digesting numerous articles and videos to derive an honest and unbiased rating.

This comprehensive research is then synthesised into a concise and informative review, making it straightforward and accessible for all users of the eTackle platform.

Deciphering Scores

To maintain consistency, every piece of feedback gathered is converted to a 1-10 scale, irrespective of whether the reviewer has used a different scoring method. This transformation enables our users to compare products easily.

When using an expert review to ascertain an overall rating of an item, the content of the specific review alongside others is taken into account to apply a score. To be clear this score is provided by eTackle and not the author of the source used.

At eTackle, our goal is to provide you with a reliable and user-friendly platform that simplifies your tackle selection process, enabling you to focus on what truly matters – the joy and thrill of angling.”

The Scoring Scale

10
Amazing
9
Great
8
Good
7
Satisfying
6
Below Average
5
Poor

Here is an example of how the review ratings will appear across the site:

Expert Review Ratings

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Overall Rating (average of the relevant attributes)

Attribute 110
Attribute 29.5
Attribute 38.5
Attribute 47.5
Attribute 55.5

And here is an example of how the overall ratings appear within our shop full of reviewed products:

Ratings on shop page

You can check out a page that lists all the review experts we have used here.

Scoring Criteria For Different Tackle Items

Although we have specifically defined the scoring scale and the way we conduct reviews, each item of tackle has different attributes that get assessed. We have kept this simple so that the key qualities of the product are reviewed consistently and fairly.

You can find more detail on what specific attributes are tested on each item of fishing tackle in their dedicated pages below.

Fishing Rods

Fishing Reels