Fish Lake is located in the Yahara River watershed within Dane County.
It is a seepage lake with predominantly sand and muck substrate. It has a surface area of 87.4 hectare, 4.3 kilometers of highly developed shoreline and a maximum depth of 18.9 meters.
NTL LTER sampling location is at 43.09885, -89.40545
Lake Manipulations:
1994 Macrophyte removal from 20% of the littoral zone
Mark H. Olson, Stephen R. Carpenter, Paul Cunningham, Sarig Gafny, Brian R. Herwig, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Tom Pellett, Christine Storlie, Anett S. Trebitz & Karen A. Wilson (1998) Managing Macrophytes to Improve Fish Growth: A Multi-lake Experiment, Fisheries, 23:2, 6-12, DOI: 10.1577/1548-8446(1998)023<0006:MMTIFG>2.0.CO;2
Elevation: 261m