Sauger
Sander canadensis · Percidae
About this fish
- Spawning
- March and April
- Largest length
- up to 70.5 cm (28 inches)
- Lifespan
- up to 10 years
- Matures at
- about 3 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.
72 open records of this fish in Wisconsin were used here.
Lakes where it has been stocked
Stocking shows what was added to a lake, not what lives in it.
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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 14 lakes
- Lake WisconsinColumbia County9,000 acres · 24 ft deeprecorded 2013 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Lake Saint CroixPierce County4,668 acres · 60 ft deeprecorded 1997 to 2006 (9 records)recorded
- Dead LakePepin County68 acres · 7 ft deeprecorded 2004 (1 record)Lowrecorded
- Jersey Valley LakeVernon County51 acres · 18 ft deeprecorded 2002 (2 records)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Lake MendotaDane County9,842 acres · 82 ft deeprecorded 2002 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Mallalieu LakeSt Croix County270 acres · 17 ft deeprecorded 2001 (2 records)Lowrecorded
- Crystal LakeColumbia County500 acres · 9 ft deeprecorded 1999 (1 record)stocked, recorded
- Lac La BelleWaukesha County1,164 acres · 45 ft deeprecorded 1989 to 1992 (3 records)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Mud LakeWisconsin185 acresrecorded 1991 (1 record)recorded
- Lake O' the DallesPolk County23 acres · 12 ft deeprecorded 1988 (1 record)Lowrecorded
- Lake PepinPepin County25,494 acresrecorded 1966 to 1988 (4 records)recorded
- Lake OnalaskaLacrosse County7,688 acres · 40 ft deeprecorded 1982 (1 record)Lowrecorded
- Lazy Lake (Fall R Millpond)Columbia County161 acres · 8 ft deeprecorded 1976 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Devils LakeSauk County369 acres · 47 ft deeprecorded 1969 (1 record)Clearstocked, recorded