Morrel hunters?

[SoonerMedic]

So I realize this neck of THR is for those that like to hunt wild game. I assume this would be the best area to ask about hunting morrel mushrooms as well? Hunting IS hunting right?
So where do you guys like to look? How do you determine when the time is right?? Tips and tricks for somebody who has never had any success??

 

[Armored farmer]

I have pictures of morels i found last year on april 27th.
I am in se Illinois.
We usually start finding mushrooms when turkey season is going on.
Keep a sharp eye out when Turkey hunting and scouting. Humps or mounds or hillsides that catch more sun than normal are prime spots. I usually check under treees that have died and are just slipping their bark, like been dead for a year or two.
Where theres ONE...theres more!
I am a morel hound! I love to hunt em, and love to eat em!

 

[SoonerMedic]

I have pictures of morels i found last year on april 27th.
I am in se Illinois.
We usually start finding mushrooms when turkey season is going on.
Keep a sharp eye out when Turkey hunting and scouting. Humps or mounds or hillsides that catch more sun than normal are prime spots. I usually check under treees that have died and are just slipping their bark, like been dead for a year or two.
Where theres ONE...theres more!
I am a morel hound! I love to hunt em, and love to eat em!

I've heard that they enjoy cedars, cottonwoods, elm and ash trees in particular. I have yet to find any while out though. I'm sure people aren't the only ones who find them tasty though lol

 

[Patocazador]

No morels down here. We hunt for sheds but you have more of them too.

 

[SoonerMedic]

No morels down here. We hunt for sheds but you have more of them too.

I have more sheds too?

 

[PapaG]

April 19 is season opener at Walnut Hill, my little central hardwood paradise.

 

[Armored farmer]

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I csn see my mushroom woods from my kitchen window.

 

[SoonerMedic]

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I csn see my mushroom woods from my kitchen window.

In the flask photo are you hunting the hillside opposite the creek?

 

[Armored farmer]

I call that place The Overlook. I have taken alot of game from there.
The creek makes a big oxbow there. Theres always something going on there.

 

[Captcurt]

I spend more time in the turkey woods looking for Morels than I do looking for birds. I start looking when the May Apples start to come up in April. I have found them around elm, ash and cedar. One of my best spots is at the high water mark around our nearby lake. I took off my camo coveralls, tied knots in the legs and sleeves and filled them with mushrooms.

 

[mokin]

So I realize this neck of THR is for those that like to hunt wild game. I assume this would be the best area to ask about hunting morrel mushrooms as well? Hunting IS hunting right?
So where do you guys like to look? How do you determine when the time is right?? Tips and tricks for somebody who has never had any success??

Hunting IS hunting and there's nothing wrong with knowing the woods around you. However, I don't come across much fungus where I hunt but the areas around the streams where I fish start producing in late July. Thing is, I'm not a mushroom fan so I leave 'em be for someone who will appreciate them.

 

[SoonerMedic]

I call that place The Overlook. I have taken alot of game from there.
The creek makes a big oxbow there. Theres always something going on there.

What state are you in AF? I'm on my cell so I can't see states readily under avatars.

 

[SoonerMedic]

Hunting IS hunting and there's nothing wrong with knowing the woods around you. However, I don't come across much fungus where I hunt but the areas around the streams where I fish start producing in late July. Thing is, I'm not a mushroom fan so I leave 'em be for someone who will appreciate them.

This is called being a responsible and respectable outdoorsman/woman. Right on.

 

[Patocazador]

I have more sheds too?

Shed antlers. Since there are more deer there than here, I assume there are more shed antlers also.

 

[buck460XVR]

I start looking when the May Apples start to come up in April. I have found them around elm, ash and cedar.

Same here, under apple trees and old orchards are a good spot to look also. Ain't really no specific time they start to show up, kinda like when the suckers run. It depends on weather, soil temps and moisture. Seems where you found 'em last year, won't produce much this year, but if there were 'rooms there 2-3 years ago make sure you look again. They like filtered light, but if the sky has been cloudy for a week, you will find them out in open pasture. I have my best luck when and where the Columbines are in bloom and the Jack in the Pulpits are plentiful. Last year fill a feed sack(shell corn) under one tree, while everywhere else I looked, I found very few. In may areas the timeline for them is very narrow. You can go out one Saturday and find a few small ones if any and by the next Saturday they are done in that spot. Go around the hill to the other side and you may find them just starting to come. Around here good morel hunting spots are kept secret, even on private land, since they are worth $15-$20 a pound, even at the wholesale market. We have more problems with trespassers on our property during morel season than during deer season.