Summer patterns, largemouth bass: Fish of the Week

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Classic summer patterns set up for largemouth bass on lakes and ponds in time for the long Fourth of July weekend.

Mike Gruca of Chicago’s North Side caught this one in the “Hoffman Estates area’’ on a Senko.

“They usually take plastic worms, green colors,’’ he said.

Classic patterns for largemouth in summer.

FOTW, the celebration of big fish and good stories, runs Wednesdays on the Sun-Times outdoors page. The story part matters as much as the big fish part.

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