When weeds are turning brown, at what point do you stop fishing around weeds and change your focus to something else? Today the weeds I saw were maybe 70/30, brown/green. I only found baby fish there.

 

Other question I have, do the weeds in shallower area die off before the ones in deeper water?

If there is other cover available, I'll abandon the weeds as soon as they start turning brown. If not, I'll stick with them until they stop producing. That's about the time they start decaying or are brown from stem to tip. The exception would be cabbage weed.

Shallow weeds will die off first and some deeper ones will stay green over the winter on a healthy lake.

In some ponds I've fished I've found that bass will stick around dead weeds but drop away from them, holding in confined open water just off. I suppose this could be bc there was no where else to go in these smaller waters. What was interesting was that the worm bite (in the weed beds) died but the bass were willing to take falling and swept jigs out beyond the weed walls at this time. It was a solid pattern. Worth a go I suppose before you abandon a good area.

Once the weeds are dead they will hold heat & are an excellent place to look for bass in the winter.

Up here in New England once the shallow weeds die I look for deeper weeds in 15 feet or more. Some will stay green for the entire winter. I also fish bluff banks and wood once the shallow weeds have died.

Did Little Ossipee, ME Last weekend was catching largemouth around any stand up weeds weather at 3ft or less. Being a clear lake any green grass at the 6ft or lower mark bass will hang out there also if its near a good sloped ledge. Heck even my non-fishing son got hooked onto bass fishing after last week.

Thanks for the replies folks. 

 

What  is the reason shallow weeds die off before deeper weeds? Maybe more rapid temperature changes in shallower waters?

Temps

At least here in NC that's why I believe. Those weeds of any color are a pain in the butt when my lures take them into my kayak. I call it a bass salad. :-/