Jitterbugs are awesome. Just a few nights ago, similar situation. Out on the pond where my daughter lives fishing rubber lizards doing "okay". Right around dusk, I'm looking in my tackle box and see the jitterbug sitting there. Very first cast a nice bass slammed it! Then it was on!!!
Like you said, just watching that V wake and having a decent bass come up and slam the jitterbug=lots of fun. My grandson's eyes were bugging out of his head with every strike.
