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By Joe Balog There are times I fish just to keep em honest, and unfortunately this was one of those times. The only boat on the lake, my trolling motor churned mud as I aimlessly flipped each reed clump. Id run across 3 miles of water so shallow Id held my breath, settling into an area that I knew, deep down, would result in a fishless afternoon. I had to be sure. Three years ago this same spot presented the equivalent of a Florida bass utopia. More water flooded the shoreline then, holding pre-spawn bucketmouths with no fishing pressure but my own. After catching a 5-pounder from a...