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My dad and my one brother David plus myself hunted mushrooms in the timber stands within a three mile area. My brother and I did pretty good most years but our dad had his secret spots he picked on his way home from work. He would walk in with grocery bags full from three spots he kept secret till the day he passed at 87. He never revealed his spots. Our spots have been over run with buck brush and dried up. My brother has passed also at an early age of 61 and myself I have been handicapped due to a hit and run driver. Mushroom hunting gets into your blood and I think it is fun and competitive in family's.
@@billmueller1576 So glad you got to experience some of life's greatest moments. Family and Morels, thats right at the top! One day their will be no competition for them at all. They will be all you can eat.
@@christopher9226 I'm band from Oklahoma in 1999 I got busted by a conservation officer selling 600 lbs of fresh state park morels at the Fllying J. The put electronic tracking tags in the morels( same ones they put on Texahoma Strippers) well when they rolled up on me at first theys being jerks but then the mouths started watering stairing at them Okie shrooms. They confiscated about 8 pounds and said,,don't come back. Well you know what happens when another man tries to tell another man what too do? YEP I been back to that marshy timber lined bottoms along 72 every year since.
I micro dosed mushrooms after fighting depression for over 7years, being incapable of work for the last 2years. In shot summary I became depression free within a couple of months and still I'm 6months later it saved me.
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My friend whom taught me how to hunt morels past away of a sudden heart attack.. he was 55 years old. RIP. The very next season, a single morel popped up in my backyard, in the middle of the grass lawn, just below my back deck. How could this possibly happen? Thank you my friend and may God bless your soul. 😊
I was working at a large apartment complex in California. One day a big rig came and unloaded wood chips for the flower beds. The truck driver told me he came from Washington( state) When spring came about 6 mo's. Later, there were morel mushrooms coming up everywhere the wood chips were placed. They were giant yellow morels
Finally found a real morel hunter to follow and learn some good knowledge from. Thank you my friend. Your obviously a seasoned man in morels. I'm stoked
Oh man thank you so much! Hopefully this will be a decent season. Doesn't matter what you know if you don't get rain at the right time. THANKS for your support and good luck in 2023 Mitchell.
I grew up in Missouri, and hunting mushrooms - outside of poison ivy - was one of the best things about living on the farm. I loved hearing the spring peepers as you crossed over that beaver dam.
We use to go hunting for them but never ever found them like you lol But we are to old now to hunt 81 years young. Love to see you finding them keep going.
Complimenti hai trovato tantissimi !!!!Nella mia zona nel N E Italia si trovano ma più piccoli e di colore un po' più scuro.Sono squisiti .Quando sono fortunata e li trovo faccio sempre tagliatelle fatte in casa con spugnole.....una bontà .Un saluto cordiale.
New to your channel. I have 2 daughters as well but twice the age of yours now. I’ve stayed away from mushroom hunting for many years because of ticks here in southern indiana. I’m as far south as you can get. I just lost my dad and he always mushroom hunted. It brought back great memories for him as a boy finding mushrooms for his family as a kid. He hunted for them as well for food because they were so poor. With him on my mind, I found my way back to the woods and found about a gallon or more whites and greys. My wife and grown kids were all excited so we got together to fry them up and make a family event out of it. Well, everyone except me ended up either throwing up or sick feeling because they are so many. I held back and let them all enjoy themselves so I only ate about 5 and I was fine. I did soak them overnight in saltwater. I don’t even know if that necessary but I remember us doing that when I was a kid. I heard my dads voice when I was out mushroom hunting. I could just imagine his voice saying, leaves are too deep here, or it’s too dry here, go closer to the creek and bottoms. That’s where I found them. The biggest patch gave me about 45 and they were all between blown down pine trees probably 20 inches round. The last place I expected to find any. I’m a woodworker as well. The blocks you made with spores really caught my interest. First I’ve heard of doing such. I remember dad finding big whites but when you’re a kid things are huge. Lol….Thanks for sharing.
I just found your channel today. I love the morel video's. Could you do a prep/cooking video. Everyone that eats them use dif concoctions on their spices and what not.
Thank you so much Talor. Maybe but I have done a few of them in the past and had very low views. They are the best thing on earth to eat! Hope you find all you can eat and more in 2023.
It was so fun to go along with you on your hunt for morels! Thank you so much for the encouragement. Here in upstate New York I have to wait a little bit longer to go out into our sycamore forest that I usually walk in and I am so excited to possibly meet a Morel in person for once this season! Be well and take good care. Thanks again.
Woh! Sycamore duff 😎 good to know. Thought that is around apple, elm or ash tree. Mine is in NE with 6B zone. Still waiting and looking around. Enjoy watching your video. 👍🏼
You should be using a onion sack to let any mushroom spores be released back onto the ground, also when you leave a mushroom you should break it up with your hands and spread it out for the following year.
Everything you just commented is,, ,WRONG,,, everything you just sad is the same thing every other sheep has said since the first internet morels chat board in 2002 said.,,,BAAA BAAA,,,
@@johnnyfish6051 I just got back from morel hunting. The high temp today was 44. I found around 30 shrooms. We were in the 70s and 80s for a week. Season is still early here
Found a few down here in Georgia, nothing like that, but hope to get back out after some more rain and warmer temps. Never seen anything like that haul, congrats!
Congrats? I do this every season it's just another day ....no,I'm just kidding! Thank you. Yes what a lucky find. I see these kind of monsters maybe every fourth year or so and was so lucky to catch it on film.Thanks so much. Hope you find more than you would ever need.
Amazing that the central midwest is closer to spring than we are here in SC. I've been searching for morels for 3 years and yet to find one. Right spots, right trees, just no morels. Hope I didn't miss it again this year!
These last few videos were recorded last season. You haven't missed this season Chris. Hope the videos gets you excited and motivated to find a bucket full in 2023. THANKS
Don't feel bad. I looked many times last year with no success. I found my first few that was about half a pound total while crawling up on a turkey I was hunting haha.
So jealous you guys were already getting them! Over here in Oregon we are still waiting just to get up to growing temps, normally the little ones are popping by now but were are still getting days of snow and hail.
Slow warm up's usually means more morels. Aleast you got moisture. That's aleast half of what you need for a morelly situation. THANKS GOOD LUCK IN 2023
Me and my daughter years ago when parents were still alive they had 20 acres in the middle of the country with ALOT of woods.We actually came across a few that were about 3 feet high.Unfortunately they were getting pretty dried up and rotting.
I can’t wait for this year I normally some early ones Virginia around the 15 th or 20th but the blondes don’t normally show up until the first week of April. However 2019 we were still finding huge flushes all the way up to the last week of May we found around 200 lbs and I hope it does it again this year. Because it was epic with so many giants. Just need some heavy rains, and flooding because they are the best years.
Those look like double wall Morels.The ones I've picked were after a huge forest fire out of Houston BC.The first ones that come up are single wall Conicers the second grow you get Blondes,Greens,Blues and Greys double wall Morels.Thats in Canada.They sure are good to eat with onions and some butter.Cool video
Yes burns especially in Canada seem to have wide variety of species. Usually find my share of morels ( NOT LIKE THE NUMBERS FOND IN BURNS) but do pretty good locally. I don't find these monster Yellows every season. They seem to be associated with flood scaring as in flash floods that rip through a river bottom after freakish heavy rain and quickly recedes. Your left with places where some top soil has been removed and ground cover flatend and some tree damage. Nonetheless the landscape has been damaged above and below the ground. So the disruption is in a way similar to a forest fire as far as mycelium is concerned. Yes they are very thick! and undescribably delicious! These are not grey/yellows. Yes their are greys that turn bright yellow like the bigs in this video.But..these emerge yellow.True Yellows! The stems are unique and steroid freakish. The stalk has vertical striations like a Gyromitra Caroliniana Almost a fibrous base. Freaks!
They don't grow that big here in Columbus Ohio but I get some pretty big ones but those are ridiculously crazy we just get big Morales here and that's what we enjoy. Pick mushrooms and I love all birds seasons. Don't really care about deer hunting anymore but if I need to take one it looks like we're going to be in a hard depression so I'm going to be forging and fishing and everything love this video thank you.
@@johnnyfish6051 I don't think they grow that big in Ohio maybe I'm wrong. I just get some really big morels people want to say hey can I have some like the other hundred and $120 a pound lol I'll keep for myself.
That was really helpful- thanks!!!!! I really shared your joy !!!!! This will be my third year trying and these were sparse by all reports but I know some spots to go back to now !!!! Question…. Old apple orchard in a hollow full of false hellebore….. I heard that means no morels. What do you think?
I have no idea what hellabore is. I find any time a ground cover type plant dominate an area mushrooms in general are very scarce their. Alot of times what I see are Ramps, Lilly of the valley, stinging nettles. Any of this heavy ground cover usually means the ground is very healthy therfore mushrooms don't thrive their. Morels or any shroom that emerge from soil appear because their is chaos going on under ground. This chaos can come from flooding, burning, sudden death or removal of plant life from logging, wind damage, humans clearing ground. All these things open the forest floor to sudden new conditions with new plant varieties taking over and fighting each other for dominance. This causes chaos for mycelium underground and the mycelium will fruit mushrooms. If one plant dominates the forest floor this means no chaos, things are health and fine( steady eddie) this can also mean the mycelium below the ground is healthy and fine and no need to produce a mushroom. My best area's have that mix of plant not one dominant type. This doesnt apply to heavy or thick grass.
Ya know, I’ve always been told it was a myth morels could grow under sycamore, and that it was only elm, tulip, ash and cherry. Thanks for proving my misconception wrong lmao :)
Morel tress vary per region. I don't find them under ash...not once ever? No cherry no tulip popla grow here.. But I do get them under cotton wood poplars. Where you live they might not associate with sycamore? Hope they do, its my #1 for sure. GOOD LUCK busting that myth!
@@johnnyfish6051 it’s definitely possible! Tulip poplars are my go-to, and even though there aren’t many ash trees left in my area, they seem to be a great tree to look under too. I’ll definitely keep my eye out under sycamores from now on, but it’s definitely possible morels don’t associate with them here in NJ. Interesting stuff 👍 and good luck to you as well!!
@JohnnyFish hopefully it warms up quick. I like to think, though, that its still warming up slightly quicker than last year did. I think the earliest I've ever found them in kansas was in mid to late march.
Brother that's amazing! Lol when I saw you almost having to go through those cattails it reminded me of some of the places that I get myself into. I was scouting a couple weeks ago and ended up having to go through a huge swamp full of em! Not easy or fun! Here in Southern Ontario, we have plenty of Sycamore, but I never find morels near them. I find them with apple, Elm, spruce and Pine, aspen and sometimes ash. Strange that I don't find them near Sycamore. Good luck this year!
Not easy at all. But its what it takes be successful on a regular basis. Morels are very localized. I've never seen one close to Ash? 250 miles from me Ash is best? Its part of the allure. See ya Joe
I’m in Ontario too, and have found them in the grass near Apple, a few around pine too, but mostly in grass seems the most consistent…. But I certainly can’t make a living off them, lol, I’d starve!
Found one a few years ago almost knee high. Was the size of a half gallon of milk. Sucked it was starting to rott so we couldn't est it. Every year I check the same spot. Crazy thing was it was literally growing out of a gravely areal on the side of a driveway. Lol
@JohnnyFish we also have issues with slugs on our morrels. Here in sw pa. Also we got weeks till ours start popping. Crazy how early southern states get them
@@marijuonko7092 yep slugs and bugs. Some reason the bug were very lite last year, you know how things come and go. These last few morel vids were recorded last season. Dont have time to edit videos during morel season. When I post them in June or July people have lost interest and they don't get views. So I hold them for the following season. Info is all the same. Yeah I'm still 3 weeks out for this years morels. Unless some freak warm up.Dont see it the forecast. Hope the vids get up motivated and pumped for 2023.
Crazy size blondes, you’d have to be eating shrooms to believe those are real, biggest I’ve ever seen! I only ever find them by accident, when I look I rarely get lucky, so tasty!
@@johnnyfish6051 i had to google who sub zero was 🤣 im not as cool as you. It pulled up the animation ,ice age heroes.... or the mortal kombat character . Which one is it? 😅😎
Yeah with out looking I would say parts if Indiana are in a warmer climate zone. Nobody said this video was filmed or recorded this year. It could have been 10 yrs ago, the info is still the same. Hunt the Sycamore fluff in 2023...good luck hope you find a ton! Thanks!
