Morel hunting

[Armored farmer]

One of my favorite hunting seasons is morel season.
It happens to coincide with our spring turkey season. Often turkey hunting ends up being a mushroom hunt.
Of course you need to bring along some firepower just in case those morels try to charge you. A good sturdy knife will usually drop them.



Are there any other morel hunters among us?

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Yes, not as dedicated as I used to be though. I here some are finding a few, too dry around here right now.

 

[Dale Alan]

Nice find , Morels are one of my favorites . Still a little early for them here , won't be long though.

 

[Patocazador]

Never had one. I guess they don't grow down here.

 

[troy fairweather]

I used to when we had the 2 farms we hunted, both are now sold and will probably be all houses soon. My buddy has about 25 acres but never seen any there, it's mostly fields. I have some state land but we can't take anything from there.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

I have some state land but we can't take anything from there.

If there are morels there someone is taking them.

 

[troy fairweather]

If there are morels there someone is taking them.

probably, not worth the felony to me.

 

[NMachine]

I haven’t been able to go out yet. They are running late this year due to low temps and dry conditions. We probably have a good couple of weeks left of the season. My buddy got these Wednesday in his woods.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Used to find them often in MI. No more morel season for me here in the south.

We have hogs to hunt year round though.

 

[OrangeCat]

We used to have a cedar tree that would grow them fairly consistently until it got brush hogged down. I'm sure we still have them but I don't know where they would be.

 

[somethingbenign]

Always on my mind when I am out and about this time of year. Don't know what I'm really doing so it normally turns into a nature walk. Normally pretty good about finding a mentor when it comes to hunting but when it comes to morels it is more likely someone will pay off my electric bill than show off their spots.

 

[Armored farmer]

View attachment 997558 I haven’t been able to go out yet. They are running late this year due to low temps and dry conditions. We probably have a good couple of weeks left of the season. My buddy got these Wednesday in his woods.

Those are nice, fresh ones.....
The best part of morel season!

 

[buck460XVR]

They are running late this year due to low temps and dry conditions.

Same here for us. Frost and freezing temps at night yet and still in high fire risk due to dry conditions. Found a few small ones this weekend, but found plenty of Pheasant backs and Golden Oysters. Just as good in my book.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

We found a few out back this year, I have a couple spots just 100 yards from the house where they pop up.
The wife spotted a patch of some nice big yellows that we ate up over the course of a VERY delicious week.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Same here for us. Frost and freezing temps at night yet and still in high fire risk due to dry conditions

Ditto....but I do not think we have them this far north. Fake ones that I watched my buddy eat one night at camp. No, not me, but he was fine.

We have a couple of sons that live in central Minnesota that hunt and harvest them tasty devils, makes their Momma jealous!

 

[Howland937]

Seems like our season was kinda messed up by 75+degree at the beginning of April, only to have snow and frost toward the end. I did manage to find 7 nice big yellow ones and about 15 dried up carcasses last week.

 

[PapaG]

We had a pretty good season. No big hauls but several trips with or twenty to thirty. Are some, dried and froze some

 

[wgp]

My neighbor went out Morel hunting. Came home with 6 Morels and about 35 ticks.

 

[buck460XVR]

Found under my bow stand last weekend.........

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I would like to, but have no idea where to find them.
I need to research that.
Squirrel season just opened back up here. A combo squirrel hunt/morel hunt would be nice.

 

[entropy]

This huge one just popped up in that tub one day last week. We could eat off it for a month, but it might be a little woody.....

 

[Armored farmer]

This huge one just popped up in that tub one day last week. We could eat off it for a month, but it might be a little woody.....
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That looks like a rare pine morel!

 

[Armored farmer]

I would like to, but have no idea where to find them.
I need to research that.
Squirrel season just opened back up here. A combo squirrel hunt/morel hunt would be nice.

You should. Fried squirrel and morel gravy would be a treat!

 

[Howland937]

Around here, they're commonly called mushrooms so as not to confuse people. Mis-pronounced, morels could be mistaken for morals. People without morals are about as likely to find them as I am to find morels. People who can't spell are in even morel trouble.

 

[Armored farmer]

yeah, we say mushrooms too.
We also hunt fall mushrooms like "hen of the woods ".

The younger generation is getting far removed from the primitive skills that we enjoy so much. I hope nobody will just go into the woods and pick fungus without knowing what to look for. They could wake up very.....,dead.