How to fish unique lakes in my area.

[August]

I live fairly close to a few lakes, they are all very similar but I’ve never seen or heard anyone mention lakes that are like this. That have a living mat of what I’m 99% sure is Chara, or “skunk-weed” thanks to the help of @MNfisher.

 

I scribbled a couple pictures of what they look like on my phone, don’t judge my artwork lol. 
The lakes are very clear, 10-15 feet of clarity depending on the amount of algae. The lakes have a shallow flat probably 10-20 yards wide, then it drops of quickly into deep water. As you can hopefully see, there are pads up shallow around most of the shoreline, and some coontail in water deeper than about 10 feet, the coontail actually goes very deep down to around 20ft but it’s not super thick especially up shallow. There are small patches of scattered cabbage in a few areas. The thing that makes these lake weird is the chara, it forms a thick mat up shallow under the pads to the point where there is only a small gap between the underside of the pads and the top of the chara mat. They chara follows the drop off down to the point where I can’t see it anymore so 12ish feet of water or more.

 

My main question is about fishing shallow, this whole situation makes me wonder if there will be a good population of bass up there because it seems lifeless. There are some small bluegill up around the pads. I’m just not sure where the bass will go during the fall when people say that the fish are moving shallow. If they aren’t shallow then where will they be? As it goes for docks in the lakes there pretty much aren’t any, and there is no rocks, there is some downed trees but the are in like 2 feet of water and the chara chokes them out. 
Thanks everyone

[gimruis]

44 minutes ago, August said:

I’m just not sure where the bass will go during the fall when people say that the fish are moving shallow. If they aren’t shallow then where will they be?

 

I focus on green weeds as fall progresses.  As the rest of the vegetation starts to die off, any remaining green stuff will hold good numbers of fish.  Bear in mind this pattern has not set up yet, because it's been way too warm.

 

When this pattern works, it's until about 50 degrees.  Below that, I can't help.  That's when I hang it up.

[August]

8 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

I focus on green weeds as fall progresses.

I’m your experience what weeds stay green the longest?

[gimruis]

Not ones right near the surface.  Those are sunburned by now.

 

Coontail comes to mind.  But I'm sure there's more.  Being that the water is so clear, what might be best is to just go visually looking for them.  When you find some, mark it, and come back and fish it later since you probably spooked any fish near them while searching.