Do you still use the Jitterbug?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHL1rSLwoFA

The black jitterbug is a great summertime late afternoon/night bait. I bought a couple of the larger musky type Jitterbugs that should trigger the big fish at Fork but haven't had a chance to use them yet. I love this bait and have been using it for over 30 years. Love that plop, plop, action.

My BIL has won a bunch of night tournies in Massachusetts with a big oversized black jitterbug.

I used to fish a big black jointed one that was like 6" long at Fork when we fished a lot at night a few years back.

The sound that big bait makes in the quiet night coming across the water and the sound and violence of the strikes it draws are awesome!

Few years ago me and my tournament partner was prefishing for a tournament on bob sandlin. I asked my brother in law if he wanted to go. That morning all three of us were throwing some kind of top water. I was throwing a pop r, my tournament partner was throwing a buzz bait and my brother in law was throwing a bull frog colored jitter bug. He kicked our a$$. I stole his jitterbug for the tournament. Lol

Tie a black skirt on back hook... violence is good word .

Many nights when i was younger this bait put lots of bass in boat

my favorite night bait still. I like the fact that it makes just enough noise that it gives you some feedback in the dark as to what the bait is doing. �.that bubbling sound punctuated periodically by the explosions of a big bass crushing it!

Up north it was one of my best go-to lures. All colors all sizes worked great. Down here they work like the rest of everything I throw at the fish, which is great but only for the fish.

love throwin jitterbugs

Never tried a skirt on the back. I'll give that black skirt a try. I know just the place.

Are Pintail cove and Fishermans Cove Marina close together? One looks Brackish and the other a lake?

Caught my first bass on a Jitterbug. It was black and had a black skirt. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time. Threw it from the shore in the middle of the day. About a 1 1/2 lb bass decided he needed it for lunch. Got me hooked for sure!

they worked better for me when I was a kid, but my home lake was very froggy anyhow

recently joined this thing - cant believe I saw this about jitterbug - found one over 40 years old that belonged to my grandfather, put new hooks on it, and caught several on Cedar Creek this past august - bought a new one so I could save the old one - oldie, but a goodie.