Yes. But there's a 20 acre lake there too, straight behind the white house, although it's tough to see from M-15. It's across the road from Huff lake. My family also owned property on the lake across from Lake Louise. I believe it's legal name is Long Lake, but we always just called it "the back lake". A buddy told me there's a develpoment there now that's basically stalled/abandoned due to the housing bust.
Frankly, I haven't been down there in about 10 years and I don't care to see how everything has changed.
Things have certainly changed around there. I remember as a kid, when we'd night fish for bass or bullheads and there'd be a car coming down M-15 every couple of minutes. After midnight, it could be 20 minutes between cars. Now you couldn't get out of that driveway due to traffic most of the time.
The only places to eat were the A&W, Renders restaurant and the Nickelodean, back when the the restauarant was in the front, where the beer store moved to. If anyone was around there then, you'd remember the nasty live Parrot that was in the old restuarant.
I remember the first housing development of "high end" homes that started off of I-75 and M-15. Back then I remember my dad marveled that anybody with the money to build such homes would choose to move out there, in "the country".
You can never go back to your youth, but my memories were so fond of that place, like a rural Huck Finn paradise, that I don't think I want to see it again.
The fishing and duck hunting was fantastic and the rabbit and pheasant was decent. Oddly enough, I remember the first deer I ever saw there, since there never was any deer there.
It was in the early 1980's and I jumped a doe while rabbit hunting. I couldn't believe it. Seeing a deer there, back then, was as unexpected as seeing a bear there. Of course, now there's deer all over down there.
The lake produced some whopper pike. The biggest was a 22 pounder that I caught on a July late afternoon in 1977, after seeing Mark Fidrych pitch a in a losing effort at a 1:00 pm start at Tiger stadium. Quite a day! LOL
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