Heading into Conmee for a day in a couple weeks, which will likely be a once in a lifetime visit to the lake. We normally don't go that far in. That aside, can anyone offer advice on how and where to catch walleye there? Is there any size to them? I'm a catch/release guy so I wont be depleting the stocks at all. I just don't want to get all the way in there and be skunked on new water. Also out of curiosity...is it worth a day trip to William as well?
I will be glad to exchange emails if you dont want to go public with your insight. Appreciate it...

Only fished it a little but there are several articles on the BWJ that talk about nice fish. If you have a 3-5 year subscription the owner will mark your maps with advice. If this is once and a lifetime that is pretty cheap advice. He does a good job.

It is a big lake with a lot of deep water---if you don't know what you are doing troll shad raps, minnow raps, flicker shads around points, in between islands, and flats--you will catch fish.

T

Been there twice, all we ever caught were small Northerns & Smallmouth. I think you have to be in just the right spot at just the right time of day. Stu goes in there and spends 3 or 4 days....we have never done that.

Note: I have never been there (yet) but have read and made a lot of notes on Conmee (and William) . . . Conmee has yielded Stu and his partners "more top-end trophy walleyes than all other lakes combined." Without electronics or visual location of reefs, use your map to fish any "plus" marks you see on the map; they are usually rocks or reefs. A couple of reefs I have heard about from another forum member are in the East end where the lake narrows down around a vaguely "bat-shaped" island -- be sure to fish there. Follow Stu's advice and fish from 7PM to dark every evening you can. That has been his mantra for years, as well as fishing whatever shores the winds have been blowing into on windy days. As for William Lake, Stu says "lots of 18-22" inch walleye action with an occasional lunker thrown in" and that it is "narrow and pretty easy to hunt down the action." Both these lakes are rated "3+" (on a scale of 1-3) in the BWJ Summer 2013 issue that has the walleye part of the Grand Slam series articles. Good luck. --Goose

I remember paddling my brother for hours along the shore of Conmee trolling. He caught a number of very good size walleyes by trolling slowly. We were on the south side of the lake on the eastern end. Trolled a mile stretch with great success.
Another time we killed the fish on the eastern end again on a scorching hot day. The other trips we have not been as productive.

We stayed on Brent last year and took a day trip to Conmee. We fished for a couple of hours then stopped for lunch at a camp site on the southeast point of the first large bay coming from Brent. While there, one of our group landed a 29" walleye on a perch pattern, deep diving Rapala.