Fantail Darter
Etheostoma flabellare · Percidae
About this fish
- Spawning
- April and May
- Largest length
- up to 8.4 cm (3 inches)
- Lifespan
- up to 4 years
- Matures at
- about 1 years old
Values come from a national database of the United States, not Wisconsin surveys: maximum length is the species' largest recorded anywhere, and spawning months are range-wide (Wisconsin timing, in a colder climate, can be later).
USGS FishTraits 14.3 (CC0). Credit: Frimpong and Angermeier, U.S. Geological Survey.
187 open records of this fish in Wisconsin were used here.
Lakes where it has been recorded
From open fish survey and museum records. A record shows the fish was found near the lake in that year, not that it is there now.
Showing 12 of 19 lakes
- Long LakeRichland County48 acres · 10 ft deeprecorded 2024 (1 record)stocked, recorded
- Lake ChippewaSawyer County15,300 acres · 92 ft deeprecorded 2011 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Murphy FlowageRusk County1.0 acres · 14 ft deeprecorded 2007 (1 record)recorded
- Birch LakeSawyer County368 acres · 73 ft deeprecorded 2004 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Lake ChetekBarron County770 acres · 22 ft deeprecorded 2003 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Bohner LakeRacine County135 acres · 30 ft deeprecorded 1999 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Oakwood Lake (U Merrillan Pond)Jackson County16 acres · 13 ft deeprecorded 1974 (1 record)stocked, recorded
- Long LakeWashburn County3,290 acres · 74 ft deeprecorded 1928 to 1959 (3 records)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Allequash LakeVilas County426 acres · 24 ft deeprecorded 1933 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Elk LakePrice County88 acres · 25 ft deeprecorded 1928 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Lake IvanhoeWalworth County42 acres · 10 ft deeprecorded 1928 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Lake WisconsinColumbia County9,000 acres · 24 ft deeprecorded 1927 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Marinuka LakeTrempealeau County98 acres · 9 ft deeprecorded 1927 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Black Otter Lake (Hortonville)Outagamie County75 acres · 9 ft deeprecorded 1926 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Lake NoquebayMarinette County2,409 acres · 51 ft deeprecorded 1926 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Pike LakeMarathon County205 acres · 34 ft deeprecorded 1926 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Rush LakeFond du Lac County3,070 acres · 5 ft deeprecorded 1926 (1 record)recorded
- Fairwater PondFond du Lac County8.0 acres · 6 ft deeprecorded 1925 (1 record)Lowrecorded
- Trout LakeVilas County3,816 acres · 117 ft deeprecorded 1925 (1 record)Clearstocked, recorded