Arrow Parts

Building your own bowfishing arrows costs less than buying complete arrows, and it lets you choose the shaft, point, nock and slide that suit the way you shoot. Replacing a worn tip or a lost slide is also far cheaper than replacing the whole arrow.

Start with a bare shaft, then add a point, a nock and a slide. Points and tips are the biggest category here, and the subcategories below break them down by number of barbs and release style.