Spotted Sucker
Minytrema melanops · Catostomidae
About this fish
- Spawning
- April and May
- Largest length
- up to 50 cm (20 inches)
- Lifespan
- up to 6 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.
32 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 7 of 7 lakes
- Long LakeColumbia County69 acres · 20 ft deeprecorded 2008 (2 records)Lowrecorded
- Lake OnalaskaLacrosse County7,688 acres · 40 ft deeprecorded 2006 (1 record)Lowrecorded
- Lake PoyganWaushara County14,102 acres · 11 ft deeprecorded 2005 (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded
- Swan LakeColumbia County406 acres · 82 ft deeprecorded 2002 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Lazy Lake (Fall R Millpond)Columbia County161 acres · 8 ft deeprecorded 1976 (1 record)Moderatestocked, recorded
- Lake Saint CroixPierce County4,668 acres · 60 ft deeprecorded 1928 (1 record)recorded
- Lake WisconsinColumbia County9,000 acres · 24 ft deeprecorded (1 record)Lowstocked, recorded