Any morels yet?!

[Sccritterkiller]

What types of areas do you focus on to find them? I've got access to a bunch of river bottom property. What should I be looking for? I'm guessing the ticks will be in full force in the next week or so....treat clothes with permethrin?

I dont waste my time looking anywhere that has been flooded recently...sometime you can find them at the edge of the high water mark from the flood..I like south facing slopes..Once I found one I go over the area very well from a couple different directions..I rarely find just one..YMMV depending on you area..Good Luck!

 

[netman]

Hearing some are finding a few here in SW Indiana. I’ll be getting after them next week.

 

[EastMT]

My parents said in Central Missouri they are harvesting morels with combines......ok maybe not that many but I guess a lot of them.


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[Glendon Mullins]

Do you all find many out west? I find a few handfuls a year here in virginia, but it's tough sometimes, i do much better finding chantrelles and ramps lol

 

[theleo91386]

Do you all find many out west? I find a few handfuls a year here in virginia, but it's tough sometimes, i do much better finding chantrelles and ramps lol

Best single day haul I've seen was from clearing trails through a burn in eastern Oregon. Filled a couple of pack bags on one mule. Priorities kind of shifted when we found that area.

 

[EastMT]

Here in Alaska they chase the burn areas, usually small black ones. In Montana there are huge commercial buyers at the burn areas, they come up like crazy, I mean more than you can carry in a bucket.


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[Downeaster]

None yet that ive seen in N. Idaho. That being said, ive been in Dallas for two days now so who knows whats possible. Depending on temps could be another week or so.

 

[Downeaster]

Got 11lbs in one day last year! Cant wait!!!

 

[2ski]

I got kind of addicted to finding them last year.

It may seem funny, but there was a certain smell in the places I would find lots of them. Like a sweet earthy smell. Something about the soil or maybe even the mushrooms? I don't know. I need to find some burns in MT to go camp for a weekend.

 

[EastMT]

I got kind of addicted to finding them last year.

It may seem funny, but there was a certain smell in the places I would find lots of them. Like a sweet earthy smell. Something about the soil or maybe even the mushrooms? I don't know. I need to find some burns in MT to go camp for a weekend.

Back in the early 2000’s the had those big burns up by Polebridge, there were mushroom buyer trailers, groups of people that traveled north with the mushroom harvest like a fall combine crew. They had boards across their necks, 4 5 gallon buckets each trip out. Crazy how many pop up in the burns.


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[Lou2]

should be close in iowa. ive heard good reports already from oklahoma

 

[huntdoc]

My parents timber was logged over the winter so curious to see if it helps or hurts. Soil is still pretty cold.

 

[tjennings3]

Will be checking a few favorite places in WV early next week.

 

[Rookie]

Can't wait for them to start popping in MN. Getting hit pretty good with snow now so going to be a bit yet.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Found a few more on Tuesday in SC.

 

[netman]

My buddy in Harrisburg Illinois said everyone is packing out good numbers of morels.

 

[Sodbuster]

Today in south Missouri.
Small gray/blacks.
They were in the yard where I was weedeating.


Big yellows will be along in a week or so.

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[gabenzeke]

It's a soil temperature thing as far as when to go. You want temps in the low 50's with warm rains. That's what gets them going. Shouldn't be long here in Iowa.

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[ndbwhunter]

This will be my first year looking for morels. Is the entire thing edible, or just the cap?

 

[Sccritterkiller]

This will be my first year looking for morels. Is the entire thing edible, or just the cap?

The entire mushroom is edible.