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Here's one for the "green bottle" haters. Don't buy this often, but it's in my top 15. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

I was 12 the first time we camped at Taylor Pond. It was early May, and my sisters boyfriend wanted to go up to the area. We almost camped right along side a major road, near Franklin Falls. Then my sister and my mom made a point that there were kids ( myself and my sisters boyfriends daughter ) and it wasn't a good idea. So we started looking for better accommodations. One place we stopped at, a private camp ground on Franklin Falls Pond was disgusting. It smelled like rotting fish and the trash cans were over flowing, sorry, I do not recall the name of this place, and don't really want to. We ended up in Ausable Forks, and started driving up Silver Lake Rd. . If you have beet too or past Taylor Pond, the sign is small. The sign caught my eye and i half blurted/yelled "What about that place!?" Mainly because as a kid being in a car for close to 7 hours I was at my breaking point. LOL We drove down in and the place was/is awesome! So we spent the weekend there. Black flies tore the hell out of us. We didn't do much fishing that trip, but did get some info on what to use on that lake and how to use it. Med Christmas Trees with a worm off the backside. We bought a bunch. Never really used them that weekend. But we made plan to go back for a week for the 4th of July. Water craft back then was a canoe with a small 2-cycle trolling motor. It wasn't flat back, they had a bracket that attached to the canoe and the motor offset on the side. 4th of July week, we hammered the rainbows, landlocked salmon, and even caught a few small lakers. We fished some MF'N hairy conditions too. Three foot rollers in a canoe trolling cross lake with make you ponder the meaning of life, even at 12 years old, LOL. We met a bunch of people, made friends, and just had a great time. We went back ever year for the 4th as a group until I was 17. Back then it was a community sort of, mainly the same people every year, and we would have little pot luck get together's often. Pan fish chowders, fried bullhead and trout, venison ( sometimes ), burgers, hot dogs, a ton of food actually. The two people that stick out the most we met up there were Red ( I cannot for the file of me remember his real name ) and his wife Betty. They were like a TV sitcom, two of the best people I had the pleasure of knowing, I hope their souls are at peace. Red and his son even made the drive down our way ( we hunted Summit and Jefferson back then ) to deer hunt. I wasn't old enough to hunt deer, 15, but my sisters BF was adamant I get used to being on stand alone, just couldn't carry my shotsun. I was on one side of a pond and Red on the other. About an hour in I hear this odd "ss-crack". I look in Red's direction and see nothing but a huge cloud of smoke. He touched of his old flint-lock. Smoke clears and there he stands, looks over at me, spits Apple Jack juice out and yells "I missed that doe!". I couldn't help but laugh. Yeah, this part isn't about Taylor itself, but about the people I met there and a time shared that's lodged in my memory. Back on track, sorry. We always hammered the fish on Taylor. Did OK on the Au Sable a few times, and did OK at times on Union and Franklin Falls. When I was 15, my sister and her B/F got a bigger more stable boat. So we could troll with three people, and we always limited out. On the days I didn't go out with them, I would fish from shore and catch a tom of Yellow Perch. At night, sometimes I would fish for bullhead, and usually caught a good amount of edible keepers. I would also go get me some bullfrogs, they were huge up there. At 17, the family annual camping started to drift away. But, my mom still took me for that 4th of July week. No boat ( they hadn't started renting them back them ), for a few years. It was a tradition, and it was a family tradition then my mom or myself wanted to let slip away. I am only going to mention one thing about being up there in my early 20's ( x-wife etc. ). My mom caught the biggest Yellow Perch of her life. I rented a rowboat, we did some trolling, I rowed. Fish were caught, but after a few hours my arms were super tired ( When I said I rented a rowboat, I rented it everyday, and I fished like a maniac ). Rowed back near the campground area, and threw the rock I made as a makeshift anchor over the side. After some time my mom yells "Holy Shit! This isn't a little one!". She gets it in and it's a pretty nice Perch, close to 10 inches. There were very few times I remember seeing my moms face light up, but this was one of them. I was proud of her, if that makes sense. There was a gap from when I was 22 until I was 29, which was the last time I was up there. That was the last camping trip I took with my mom. Yes, I was 29 and went camping with my mother just the two of us. Haven't been back since. That place, the area, the people I met, just have a special place in my heart. Yeah, I'll get to the questions I have later. I need some air and a beer.

I think I will start a new thread about the Taylor area. I have a ton of questions now, and don't want to flood the Live thread with chatter.

Nice pics. Good luck with the traps.

It's north west. Silver Lake Rd. crosses it and runs along side at some points.

I have bought some beers that are in that range and up. But not so much anymore. Had a few that were so bad I couldn't drink them. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Last night. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

So we should all start using elevated toilets to kill deer. Never thought of that. Will be calling my buddies dad tomorrow and asking if I can bolt a toilet to a tree on the only private land I have to hunt. If they get pissed off Larry, I am hunting with you all of the bow season, best make room in your basement for me.

Will definitely do that. Thank you.

I know where Silver Lake is, didn't know about the special trout area on the Saranac. We fished the river once, I think I was 13. LOL. Will look into this and keep in memory. Thank you for the insight on other places to fish. Much appreciated. I also remember when you get to the "T" that ends Silver Lake RD, take a right and about a mile down was a gas station/bait shop/tackle shop. Bought our first Christmas Tree lures there after a suggestion from the owner the first time we were even in the area. Damn dude, you are bringing back a ton of memories, I just wish I could remember some of the street and road names.

A cat.

I think so, there was a grocery store at the intersection of 9N and a street I can't recall. I think the store was a Grand Union if memory serves me right, they would let you park there if you were fishing. The store was a left at the 9N intersection, and about 300 feet down. A right and then a quick left would put us on Silver lake Road to TP. There used so be a small mom and pop store in Black Brook that we got our worms from, they closed down long before I stopped getting up there. Can't recall the name. It was at a fork on Silver Lake Rd. and a side street.

I think the Au Sable River is time dependent at times as well. When we used to camp at Taylor Pond a lot when I was a teen and into my early 20's, we would fish it from around Au Sable Forks east and south, it was hit and miss on some days. We got to the point where we just fished the lake at the campground, always limited out. That was trout and salmon. Bass, we would hit Franklin Falls and Union Falls. Funny, I was just talking to the wife saying I want to get a week camping in at Taylor next Summer. Been a long-long time.

I still don't wanna know what are doing when you shoot from your bathroom. Nice shot all the same.

House or feral cat.

Hope they catch the other Antelope before some looser poacher does something stupid.

Doesn't count, that's two arrows.

Shop N Save and my beverage shop carry the KBS now. $21.99 and $26.99 per 4. That's espensive Lucy. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

20 yards, broadhead. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

I have been listening to this butt puppet for years. I am not a follower, I make my own path in life. You still have nothing to say about the other vid I posted? I'm in no way on the side of the left. I just look at things more carefully then a nut job in need of Xanax Keep licking his **** sweat. Maybe you will learn how many licks it takes to get to the center of a lollipop. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

This tastes good right about now. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

I still have a few MM left from last weekend. Due to gnats buzzing in my ears this week, I think I have one. Will post a pic when it's in the glass.

No! Funny, you mention the Mueller issue, but not the other video. Where in the Bible was that said? You best post that passage! Do I sence Wolc in the room? You extremists make up your own shit just to get publicity.

Yeah, that didn't go as planned. LOL! Went out and brought in the target, taking off my my jacket the wife sees the target and puts a halt on the shot. "I'm going to bed, you aren't shooting tonight! You have all day tomorrow to shoot!". Seeing I have to shoot down the hall towards the bedroom, I see her point, but, damn, I wanted to put an arrow down range. Maybe tomorrow will be better anyway, can get outside and shoot from 25.

I will try to take a shot and get it posted from tonight. Give me a few minutes here. Have to get the target out of the shed, and it will be indoors, raining outside here and it's dark, shot will be about 15 yards. I haven't shot my bow since May, so this first shot might be off, and I am going to shoot a BH not a FP.