The last two summers, when I start to hate striper fishing, I've been switching back over to the yak and and fishing first light with rubber frogs and poppers in the ponds around here. Last year was such a blast and it really got me back into sweetwater.
My girlfriend's parents live on a private lake, and last night her brother who has fished the lake his entire life, took me out in the canoe for some night fishing. As much fishing as I've done in my life, I've never gone out in the dark and thrown jitterbugs from a canoe before. What an absolute blast it was. We went out right after the storm and hammered fish on the black jitterbug. We were anchored up off a point where there is deep water and then a flat. Fish were blowing up everywhere so all we had to do was fan cast. We were only out there for an hr or so after dark, but we had double digits of small to medium size bass (and some monster bluegills!).
I know most people on here know the jitterbug to be a staple in their tackle box. Guess I'm a little late to the party
But it was cool to me because it was like fishing a danny, seeing the v-wake in the dark, and then having a bass crush it. can't wait to pull an all-nighter out there soon!