Comments about JBL JBL #890 14" Polespear Slip Tip:

This has become one of my better tips for spearfishing and it works well with the JBL travel pole. However, while it penetrates well, it significantly increases the level arm of the tip with a struggling fish. On the first day I had one small grouper snap the end of my JBL polespear right off in open water (at the threads!!). With no float line on the slip tip cable (it comes attached to the tip itself), the fish, slip tip, 14" ice-pick type extension and aluminum pole-tip all end headed for the bottom. (Pretty weird).I recovered all, but changed the cable to attach to a float line (instead of the tip base) for all future uses. This also makes getting the slip tip out of the fish easier later.