I bought one over the weekend at a flea market. Mine is a standard 5/8 oz Jitterbug, in the coachdog color. During WW2, the Fred Arbogast company produced these Jitterbugs with a clear lexan lip, as all the metal was being used for the war effort.                                                 I'd never seen a Jitterbug like this before. I don't think it has a lot of collector value, but is a unique old bait from the past. I'll put it with my collection of older stuff, and won't fish it.                                       The man I bought it from said they produced several colors of these clear lipped models, and some with a red lexan lip also.                Has anyone else seen these old clear lipped Jitterbugs? Do you own any of these?

I've got some of the new ones with clear lips. I like them better than the metal, but I don't throw either very much.

58 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

I bought one over the weekend at a flea market. Mine is a standard 5/8 oz Jitterbug, in the coachdog color. During WW2, the Fred Arbogast company produced these Jitterbugs with a clear lexan lip, as all the metal was being used for the war effort.                                                 I'd never seen a Jitterbug like this before. I don't think it has a lot of collector value, but is a unique old bait from the past. I'll put it with my collection of older stuff, and won't fish it.                                       The man I bought it from said they produced several colors of these clear lipped models, and some with a red lexan lip also.                Has anyone else seen these old clear lipped Jitterbugs? Do you own any of these?

How in the world can you put up this cool post about a WW2 era bait and not POST A PIC???

22 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

How in the world can you put up this cool post about a WW2 era bait and not POST A PIC???

I can't post pics just yet, but you can do a Google search and see these old baits

They also did colored plastic lips on those old vintage WWII Jitterbugs

 

 

I had one with a red plastic lip.

 

Allen 

I'm pretty sure the clear plastic lip jitterbug is not a war bug and was produced in 2005 by pradco

Sorry..early 90's