Does anyone pick morels ?

[ivorytip]

Check out this hog! View attachment 16037

hot dang, that's beyond normal isn't it? im wanting to start doing it this spring, im totally new to it. looks like burn areas are the place to look?

 

[Drhorsepower]

I've never seen them around here.

 

[Bonecollector]

Has not been a good year for them in Ohio. We've had plenty of moisture, but the night time temps are too low.
Only found a few. The 17yr locust are even slow to arise, but I'm ok with that!

 

[B&C Blacktails]

Ivorytip once in awhile you'll find some jimdandies, my biggest was honestly as big as a 16 oz boxing glove. The burns are producing morels right now in CA. Yep most burns produce morels for years after a burn. White fir forests seem to have the best production, with a 70% burned to 30% live forest. Logging units will produce morels as well as do fruit orchards. Morel quesadilla for breakfast.

 

[Hilltop]

I have never looked for them but plan to this spring while turkey hunting. Can any of you post your pictures? I'm really interested to see the terrain they are picked in. I'll be on the Platte River in Nebraska and I have been told there are quite a few around.

 

[Fink]

I have never looked for them but plan to this spring while turkey hunting. Can any of you post your pictures? I'm really interested to see the terrain they are picked in. I'll be on the Platte River in Nebraska and I have been told there are quite a few around.

I bet the Platte river basin is full of morels.. Lots of guys find them by the truckload up and down the Missouri river, I can't see the Platte being much different. Terrain you find them in really varies.. It seems like my early spots (like right now) usually are in scrubby newer woods, right next to fields or pastures. As the season progresses, I tend to find more in the bigger timber, where the ground stays moist and a little cooler than the sun soaked, and now dryer edges of the timber. Around here, I almost never find them in or around evergreen trees.

 

[buckbull]

Pay attention to Elm trees. Pay special attention when they are dead.

 

[wy-tex]

Nebraska Game and Parks just put out a bulletin about morels in Nebraska. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NEGPC/bulletins/192523d

 

[Prerylyon]

For me here in Iowa, the elm tree thing has never paid off. I know many that do well and swear by them, but in 14 yrs of foraging for them here, I have yet to hit a real mother lode under the text book dying elm.

What has been consistent for me are moist, but not soaked hill sides with moss. The soil is always rich, black dirt mostly, and has always has some sand in it-its dark, gritty soil. Old rail lines turned into hiking trails have produced well, on the side grades. If there is a flowing brook or spring near the old rail bed, even better.

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[Hilltop]

We didn't find any this weekend. I plan to try again in a couple weeks.

 

[buckbull]

wish they were all this big......

 

[Prerylyon]

Yep. Looks like a big yellow Morel. About 12 yrs ago me and some of the kids got into a grove of big ones like that. They almosf looked like ice cream cones when the kids held them!

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