The Jitterbug topwater lure is a tackle box "MUST HAVE "  I love the black after dark for smallmouth and largemouth Bass.... When I was about 16 , I was fishing with my father and his friend on a lake in Vermont ..we went out almost every other night around 9-10P.M. and fished black jitterbugs and weedless jitterbugs casting from the boat towards shore ..I cast my jitterbug and the second it hit the water there was an explosion on the surface and I hooked a monster !!!! I had on 8lb test and was thinking this fish was gonna snap my line .... as I got the fish closer too our boat we could see with ourmflashlight that it was a BIG smallmouth...she dove under the boat ..and snapped my rod were the top section meets the lower section... I reeled it in the last couple minutes with just the lower section and one guide....what a fish..4lbs 8oz's !
.also hooked a largemouth on that same lake a year latter with a frog colored jitterbug at dush while casting parallel to shore from our dock (waiting for my dad to get to the boat) a monster that jumped three times and gave a hell of a fight before he threw the lure with a jump and head shake.
I highly recomend the jitterbug  , a classic lure that catches fish from smallmouth and largemouth to big pike ...even used the large big game size for striped bass and bluefish .... check out the Fred arbogast Hula poper also (it was Fred Arbogast before it became Arbogast lure co.)
The Jitterbug topwater lure is a tackle box "MUST HAVE "  I love the black after dark for smallmouth and largemouth Bass.... When I was about 16 , I was fishing with my father and his friend on a lake in Vermont.. we went out almost every other night around 9-10P. M. and fished black jitterbugs and weedless jitterbugs casting from the boat towards shore.. I cast my jitterbug and the second it hit the water there was an explosion on the surface and I hooked a monster!!!! I had on 8lb test and was thinking this fish was gonna snap my line.... as I got the fish closer too our boat we could see with ourmflashlight that it was a BIG smallmouth... she dove under the boat.. and snapped my rod were the top section meets the lower section... I reeled it in the last couple minutes with just the lower section and one guide.... what a fish.. 4lbs 8oz's! . also hooked a largemouth on that same lake a year latter with a frog colored jitterbug at dush while casting parallel to shore from our dock (waiting for my dad to get to the boat) a monster that jumped three times and gave a hell of a fight before he threw the lure with a jump and head shake. I highly recomend the jitterbug  , a classic lure that catches fish from smallmouth and largemouth to big pike... even used the large big game size for striped bass and bluefish.... check out the Fred arbogast Hula poper also (it was Fred Arbogast before it became Arbogast lure co. )