This is a classic topwater lure. Have you used it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHL1rSLwoFA

Take a jitterbug for a walk this summer. You might come back having caught and released a big bass.

Almost 16 years ago, I caught what was to be my largest bass for years, until I had a few crazy days on Fork and Falcon (last year).
I was fishing a cypress stand right at sunrise, on a hot late August morning. I saw a school of nervous shad under a single tree, and threw my black Jitterbug a few feet past them. I let it sit for 30 seconds, then crawled it into the middle of the shad. About 3 seconds later, a small "ploop" sucked it out of sight. I reeled in my slack, then waited until I felt the fish. When I did, I hit her hard ... she hit me back! I fought the fish for several minutes, keeping her out of the roots and lilly pads. When I finally got her to the side of my boat, I got to see how big she was when she turned to surge away again. Huge! When I finally got her to a point where I could land her (no net, of course!), all I could see was that giant mouth, filled with what looked like dozens of big Jitterbug trebble hooks! I slowly lowered my hand to the mouth, and found a hook-free section of lower lip to grab.
The bass was a very long fish; 25 1/8" long. She weighed in at 8.5#, much too light for a fish that long. She was healthy, but with a big head and not "fat" as it was late summer and the water was 99 degrees.
Unfortunately, she died in the livewell, as I was trying to get her weighed for a replica. Since she had died, I had a skin mount made and it looks really beautiful next to the 10.8# and 9.75# replicas I put on the wall last year.

Great story. No telling what the weight would have been if caught in a different time of year.

Thanks, Yak. It was a really special time.
By the way, I noticed that I didn't mention that I caught the fish on Caddo, near Little Green Break. I sure miss fishing Caddo!

Thanks hi rise fishing. Sometimes regardless how hard we try they're gonna die. Great story. Great fish.

I still use the Jitterbug since very few people throw them anymore it gives the bass something different to look at.

That is one of the lures that has kicked my tail over the years. One of the first lures I bought as a teenager was a Jitterbug in a frog pattern. I still have it as well as about a half a dozen of them in various sizes and colors. I've thrown one till I though my arm was going to fall off and never got a look much less a strike. My fave when it comes to top water is the Pop-R. I have actually won a tournament casting one of these early in the morning. I have wondered though if I had a "bug" tied on in the same situation would I have the same success. I think part of my problem with the "bug" is I always seemed to want to throw it when fish weren't that active on a top water bite in mid day with bluebird skies...........go figure

Some people have great luck with them. Others not! We kinda get our favorites and stick with them. I think confidence it a bait plays a big part.

Never caught a darn thing on a jitterbug. Go back over the same water later with a buzz bait and caught fish.
That being said, I still have one in my tackle box. They just LOOK like they will catch fish!