Does anyone pick morels ?

[nv-hunter]

Just wondering if anybody on the forum picks morels in the spring? I haven't gone mushroom picking in years but would love to get some this year. Tahoe area? Carson foothills?

 

[6mm Remington]

Love morels. Nothing better than a pan of fired morels, a nice salad, and a nice medium rare elk steak!

 

[Gr8bawana]

I picked these last year in AZ. They were growing mostly under pinion and juniper trees. I didn't eat any because I don't know anything about wild mushrooms and I didn't want to wake up dead or with liver damage. This was a mature one, the ones that hadn't opened up looked like button mushrooms from the store.http://forum.eastmans.com/images/styles/eastmans/attach/jpg.gif

 

[Umpqua Hunter]

I love morels but have never found more that a couple quarts at a time. We have pretty good number of fall chanterelles around where we live.

 

[buckbull]

Yeah, it seams like my Turkey hunting turns into picking Morels more often than not. Would rather eat the shrooms than the turkey anyway.

 

[Fink]

Yeah, it seams like my Turkey hunting turns into picking Morels more often than not. Would rather eat the shrooms than the turkey anyway.

What?! Clearly you've never had Springfield style cashew turkey!
We pick a bunch of morels here, I usually eat them nonstop until I get sick.

 

[Matthoek21]

Love Morels. Use to pick a lot when I lived in Missouri. They were hard to find some years. When I lived in northern IL we use to find them like weeds in one particular area. A good morel spot is kinda like with wolves without the shooting and shoveling...just the shut up. I had a buddy that's grandma would not tell him where her morel picking spot was. Some people literally take it to the grave.

 

[az.mountain runner]

That could be a death angel hard to tell from a that pic,referring to gr8 pic

 

[Team Kabob]

Yes, one eye on the ground and the other Looking for birds!



TK

 

[Gr8bawana]

That could be a death angel hard to tell from a that pic,referring to gr8 pic

I wasn't willing to take that chance. I'll leave it to the experts.

 

[tim]

they are tasty on an elk steak. my wife picked some in our yard last year, kind of cool.

 

[dan maule]

We spend a lot of time looking for them every year it turns into a competition between the kids. I have found a few in my wife's flower beds right next to the house I think they grow from the mulch we purchase as they are usually white morels and all the ones we find in the woods are black.

 

[ivorytip]

anyone know if they grow around south east Idaho? would be kinda fun to go do. been a way wet spring so far.

 

[drifli]

Yes - Morel spots and hunting locations are guarded secrets even within close families. I have harvested garbage bags full in some areas passed on to me by long gone old timers. California has some of the greatest areas and the east side produces every year. Happy hunting and remember animals and mushrooms like burn areas.

 

[CrossCreeks]

That could be a death angel hard to tell from a that pic,referring to gr8 pic

Yes ! I would be a little suspicious of that from what I can tell !

 

[nv-hunter]

Yes - Morel spots and hunting locations are guarded secrets even within close families. I have harvested garbage bags full in some areas passed on to me by long gone old timers. California has some of the greatest areas and the east side produces every year. Happy hunting and remember animals and mushrooms like burn areas.

I had several areas when I lived in Oregon. What elevations and what timing for the Reno/ Tahoe area Drifli?

 

[shootbrownelk]

Look underneath..."If it has Gills...It Kills!".

 

[B&C Blacktails]

I am a morel picking fool! They are growing right now in low elevations. For Tahoe and the carson hills they won't start popping till late April early May. Try looking in burned off areas or logging units

 

[B&C Blacktails]

Check out this hog!

 

[goindeep]

If I remember right, there was a big fire outside of markleeville last summer. That's where I'd be looking.