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Post by greenhunter on Mar 24, 2007 0:06:47 GMT -5
Well its March 23rd and I wondering if anyone has found any morels this year? Please keep us all posted when you find them as this can be quite fun and intriguing as to what counties they are showing up in.
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Post by cambygsp on Mar 24, 2007 1:28:00 GMT -5
I think its still a bit early, but if this rain and warm weather keeps up, they should be right around the corner
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Post by Bowhunter68 on Mar 24, 2007 6:08:49 GMT -5
I've found the black ones as early as the 3rd week in March' but that was years ago. Seems like the season gets later and shorter each year. Take a mushroom sack with you when you go Turkey hunting. I always find them then.
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Post by drgreyhound on Mar 24, 2007 7:44:22 GMT -5
I really want to go down to Martin County where my boyfriend's parents live and look for them when it gets warmer and wetter there.
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Post by greenhunter on Mar 24, 2007 15:42:03 GMT -5
I like to toss a black mesh sack in my game vest just in case I wander into a bunch of them while I'm turkey hunting. Some know the mesh sack as a laundry sack that you can put small item in and then throw the whole sack in the washer. I prefer my use for it though. I never pull the whole shroom up out of the of ground, but rather cut it off leave the base intact with the dirt. The sack, I believe, helps the spores float as I walk. I also keep tabs on he reports that mushroom hunters post at www.morels.com |
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Post by swilk on Mar 24, 2007 19:54:16 GMT -5
My old man is a mushroom hunting professional .... he says its a little early yet.
I dont eat them so I havent been with dad since I was little ... the last few years he has gotten $20-30 per pound. He finds a few hundred pounds a year.
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Mar 24, 2007 21:19:26 GMT -5
I'll bet they'll be up by next weekend if it keeps this up..I'm ready for the honey comb ones..
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Post by tmeasel on Mar 25, 2007 6:50:42 GMT -5
Hmmm,So you guys pick your own mushrooms up there.Not here in Fla.That is not unless you want to take a trip and never leave the farm.
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Post by jajwrigh on Mar 25, 2007 23:28:57 GMT -5
I am going for the first time this year with a guy who has hunted them his whole life. How is the taste?
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Post by JohnSmiles on Mar 26, 2007 1:02:25 GMT -5
My old man is a mushroom hunting professional .... he says its a little early yet. I dont eat them so I havent been with dad since I was little ... the last few years he has gotten $20-30 per pound. He finds a few hundred pounds a year. a few hundred pounds . . . . do you actually realize how much that is? About 200 bread sacks full. Or, enough to fill 3 full size pickup trucks level across the top of the bed. Worth between 10 and 30 THOUSAND dollars . . . Which means he finds at least 10 breadsacks full every single day the season is here.  That is a lot of mushrooms. My best year ever I found maybe 10 sacks full total, and hunted all season. You sure about those numbers . . . ? It is still too early for them here, that is true. It is very rare to find any large patches of them before Turkey season comes in unless you live in the southern part of the sate. |
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Post by whiteoak on Mar 26, 2007 3:41:07 GMT -5
Down here in the southern part of the state, bread sacks don't get it, we use feed sacks. Here in Pike county and Warrick county we grow some very large shrooms. I have seen where 4 or 5 would fill a bread sack. My best for one day of hiking the spoil banks was 27 lbs. and about 40 ticks, and a half case of beer.
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Post by danf on Mar 26, 2007 6:05:33 GMT -5
John, you should know that mushroom hunters are also usually fisherman. As such, they are prone to stretching the truth quite a bit!!
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Mar 26, 2007 6:07:07 GMT -5
A tad bit early for me yet. A couple of my bigger grey & yellow patches are on NW slopes that does not allow the soil to warm-up until mid April at the earliest.
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Post by swilk on Mar 26, 2007 9:00:50 GMT -5
I will be happy to take pictures with scales for you. On a typical day he finds 20-30lbs all verified by a scales.
He sells by the pound ..... people might get a little upset if they pay for a pound and only get 10oz.
He hunts in Pike Co. .... like whiteoak said, they grow 'em big there.
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Post by swilk on Mar 26, 2007 9:04:38 GMT -5
Remember that post where you got to correct my math skills ... well, now I get to do the same for you. He sells for $20-30 per lb and finds 2-300 lbs per year. Not even close to $10,000 ..... but he makes enough to pay for gas ......  |
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Post by swilk on Mar 26, 2007 9:08:11 GMT -5
And .... he is retired so he goes from sunup until early afternoon 3 or 4 days a week for as long as they are popping up.
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Post by JohnSmiles on Mar 26, 2007 12:14:00 GMT -5
Remember that post where you got to correct my math skills ... well, now I get to do the same for you. He sells for $20-30 per lb and finds 2-300 lbs per year. Not even close to $10,000 ..... but he makes enough to pay for gas ...... Do I remember a post where I 'corrected' your math skills? No, but I will take your word for it. I do that sometimes.  Anyway, at $30 a lb, 300 lbs would be $9,000, which is VERY close to $10,000 I would say. BTW, You stated 'several hundred pounds'. . .which is not an exact figure. Rather hard to 'correct my math' when you gave no specifics to begin with. "several: Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many, three to seven" I used the number 5 in my computations, simply middle of the road. 500 lbs at $20 per lb is $10,000. As I was not sure just exactly what you meant by 'several', I put the top number at a possible 1000 lbs, at $30 a lb, which is $30,000. Not implying you are lying here at all, just asking if you are sure your figures are right. During my best years, back when I could hunt till I was simply tired of hunting, I never found more than maybe 30 lbs tops, and that is one heck of a lot of mushrooms! I have even found patches where I picked maybe 10 lbs even, but those are rare. My uncle once found more greys than could be piled on a large horse-drawn wagon once eons ago, and others have stumbled on the mother load from time to time. Sadly, I myself have almost nowhere left to hunt mushriooms anymore. I once had several nice area's, but between change in ownership, housing and logging, I am lucky to find 3 lbs a year. |
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Post by JohnSmiles on Mar 26, 2007 12:19:38 GMT -5
John, you should know that mushroom hunters are also usually fisherman. As such, they are prone to stretching the truth quite a bit!! Not me. ;D  |
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Post by JohnSmiles on Mar 26, 2007 12:23:56 GMT -5
I will be happy to take pictures with scales for you. On a typical day he finds 20-30lbs all verified by a scales. He sells by the pound ..... people might get a little upset if they pay for a pound and only get 10oz. He hunts in Pike Co. .... like whiteoak said, they grow 'em big there. By all means. Put a date card in the pile and show em off. I have the distinct impression a great many will be posting any large messes they find this year. If all goes well and I get a bird this year, you can be assured THAT will be shown on here. |
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Post by swilk on Mar 26, 2007 13:18:16 GMT -5
jeez ... dont take all the fun out of it. I was just kidding with the math skills thing ....... and I said he finds a "few" hundred pounds each year. Never really gotten a grand total from him.
He weighs each days take and sells about half of them. The other half he eats and gives away. I have about a dozen or so people I give 5lbs or so to a year. My sister gives some away and dad gives the rest away ......
Ill take some photos of his this year ......
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