We are headed towards William, Conmee and Suzanette. Has anyone had any experience in that area of Quetico? Know any good campsites & fish'in spots?

I hear good things about the fishing in Conmee.

We spent alot of time on the Eastern end of the lake where at the start of the "conmee death march" where the stream/river comes in with little success. Either we were spooking fish, wrong time of day, or they just weren't there. We should have been picking up fish. There was a camp site there but we pushed on. On the first bay stretching south (East end of Conmee) there was a really cool island site we stopped at, but with 8 people, we couldn't fit.

On the portage between Conmee and Suzanette there is a geographic marker in the trail... kind of neat (first one I saw) but don't trip over it.

Suzanette was OK for smallies.

Hex

i go into that area twice a year. in spring and fall. leaving this spring on the 18th of april and will come out around the end of may. what do you want to know?

fishguts, e-mail me direct(oshegon1@aol.com) and i can probably tell you whatever you need to know about that area(plus burt,marge, suzanette) as i said earlier, i spend a lot of time there and have made improvements(firepits,benches) on several campsites in that area. just be sure to put "fishguts" in your message so i won't delete it before opening. if you are seriously planning a trip in there, it won't disapoint.

Mind if I ask you a few questions about the area? I am new to this board and am visiting this area in June.

oshegon, not sure how many spring trips you have done, but if you are planning on entering on April 18 you may need to bring ice skates. The average ice out in the Ely area is April 23 for most lakes. As of today the ice is still tight to the shore and I would suspect ice out will be after the 18th especially on the bigger lakes. I also spoke with La Croix air services and on Lac LaCroix they were still driving on the ice roads on Friday. We are presently having some nice warm temps, so maybe ice out will be early...similar to last years date of April 17.

Fishguts, when are you headed in?

Jimmy,
Check the date....05..we went last July We had a great time! We made it to William, and caught a lot of fish. However we never made it to Conmee or Suzanette..we took the Brent portage out of William . We got to William by taking the northern portages out of Darkey.....a nice route! Get back to me if you want to chat about this area.

ha, funny this is at the top of the board.

i think we'll be headed further east. did you see many other groups on your trip?

We saw one party on McAree, then no one for two days on Little Gratton & Wicksteed. Saw 1 party on Darkey down by the pictographs. Then no one for 3 days from Darkey to William and on to Brent.

Nice, sounds like you had a great trip. 3 weeks to get ready for me...

Fishguts,

We have talked about taking a day trip over to William. Any recommendations on the fishing in there. We'd be there during the day, so I guess, unless it's a dark lake, etc., we'd be looking for Northern or Smallmouth...

Thanks.

Hey! Jimmy,

Smallmouth.....Northern....and Walleye!!!!
We didn't catch many smallmouth, but we did tie into some good size Walleye and Northern in William.If you click on my name it will go to an E-mail to me......E-Mail me and I'll give you more info.

i'm trying to get a hold of frank but his "cabelaman" e-mail address is not working. is there anybody out there that can get me a different address?

if anyone can tell me how to reach him, please e-mail me at oshegon1@aol.com thanks again, walter