Lake Monona

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Lake Monona

Lake Monona is a freshwater

Freshwater

Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids....
drainage

Drainage

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and groundwater from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies....
lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
in Dane County, Wisconsin

Dane County, Wisconsin

Dane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2007, the population was 476,785. Its county seat is Madison, Wisconsin....
surrounded on three sides by the city of Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
and on the south side by the city of Monona, Wisconsin

Monona, Wisconsin

Monona is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 8,046 as of 2007. It is completely surrounded by Madison, Wisconsin and is part of the Madison Madison metropolitan area....
. It is the second-largest of a chain of four lakes along the Yahara River

Yahara River

The Yahara River is a tributary of the Rock River , about 45 mi long, in southern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the Rock River, it is part of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River....
(also including Mendota

Lake Mendota

Lake Waubesa

Lake Waubesa is one of the four lakes in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. The lake has a surface area of slightly over 2,000 acres ....
) in the area and forms the south shore of the isthmus

Isthmus

File:The Spit Bruny Island.jpg File:IsthmusOfPanama.pngAn isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Of note, the Isthmus of Panama connects the continents of North America and South America , and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt connects Africa and Asia ....
that forms downtown Madison. The name 'Monona' is a Chippewa word believed to mean 'beautiful', although the lake was originally named by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)

Ho-Chunk

The Ho-Chunk, or Winnebago , are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States, native to what are now Wisconsin and Illinois....
'Tchee-ho-bo-kee-xa-te-la' or 'Teepee Lake'.

Lake Monona rests at .

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Lake Monona is a freshwater

Freshwater

Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids....
drainage

Drainage

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and groundwater from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies....
lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
in Dane County, Wisconsin

Dane County, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Monona, Wisconsin

Yahara River

Lake Mendota

Lake Waubesa

Lake Waubesa is one of the four lakes in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. The lake has a surface area of slightly over 2,000 acres ....
) in the area and forms the south shore of the isthmus

Isthmus

Ho-Chunk

Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s (13.2 km²), has a mean depth of 27 ft (8 m) and a maximum depth of 64 ft (20 m). Its volume is approximately 28 billion US gallons (110,000,000 m³) and it has 13 miles (21 km) of shoreline, about 40% of which is publicly owned. The elevation of the lake is 845', regulated by locks at the mouth of the Yahara River at Lake Mendota. Monona is fed by three tributaries

Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
; The Yahara River (from Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota is the northernmost and largest of the four lakes near Madison, Wisconsin. The lake borders Madison, WI on the north, east and south, Middleton, WI on the west, Shorewood Hills, WI on the southwest, Maple Bluff, WI on the Northeast, and Westport, WI on the Northwest....
), Starkweather Creek, and Murphy Creek. Lake Monona is typically frozen for 107 days a year, give or take 10 days depending on the season. Access to the lake is by boat ramp.

Monona is home to many species of fish and is a popular lake for fishing. Sport fish species include bluegill

Bluegill

The Bluegill is a species of freshwaterfish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose. It is a member of the sunfish family of order Perciformes....
, lake sturgeon

Lake sturgeon

The lake sturgeon is a North American temperate fresh water fish, one of about 20 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is an evolutionarily ancient bottomfeeder with a partly cartilage skeleton and skin bearing rows of bony plates....
, largemouth bass

Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass is a species of fish in the Centrarchidae family . It is also known as widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucketmouth, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, linesides, Oswego bass, and southern largemouth....
, smallmouth bass

Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. It is the type species of its genus. One of the black basses, it is a popular gamefish sought by anglers throughout the temperate zones of North America, and has been spread by stock to many cool-water rivers and lakes in the United States an...
, muskellunge

Muskellunge

A muskellunge , also known as a muskelunge, muscallonge, or maskinonge , is a large, relatively uncommon Fresh water fish of North America....
(muskie), northern pike

Northern Pike

The northern pike , Esox lucius, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox . They are typical of brackish water and freshwaters of the northern hemisphere ....
, and walleye

Walleye

Walleye or yellow pickerel or pickerel is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European Zander....
.

Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
died when his plane crashed in Lake Monona on December 10, 1967 during a storm en route to a concert in Madison. Several crew members and all but two members of the Bar-Kays

Bar-Kays

The Bar-Kays are a popular soul , Rhythm and blues, and funk band which began performing in 1966 and continue to perform today, although with only one original member....
(then Otis's backup band) on the plane also died.

Lake Monona

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