Is this common?

[Fins]

Early October last year, Minnesota

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[kzoofisher]

Looks like a saddle between points made up of sand or gravel and mud with a few scattered rocks. Pretty cool pic. Lots of transition area and a good shot at current with the right wind.

[skeeter6]

Wow ,looks like the one your holding...your goen to need a bigger boat

[Minnesota97]

At 23' that could be chara grass.

[kry29]

I've never seen bottom like that. Looks awesome but the fishy part is the little rock pile. Wonder if that is like some really defined shell beds?

[BrownTrout]

Too well defined to be anything natural like grass, rocks, sand, etc.

[Fins]

Too well defined to be anything natural like grass, rocks, sand, etc.

It's a natural lake not a reservoir so it's definitely weeds/sand/rock/muck. I'm guessing some low growing weed (brighter returns) on a soft bottom (darker areas). As mentioned above, Chara Grass looks like weeds we pull up from that lake. A 2D view would be nice.

[joebone1]

looks like mud flats to me.

[bass_prodigy75]

should have dropped a bait down there a couple times to see if you could snag something, if not you'd know it wasn't a type of plant. If you pull up some algae (chara is a benthic algae) and it smells like ass you'd know its definitely chara