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Post by hilljack70 on Apr 26, 2009 14:29:39 GMT -5
ok i have been out 2 or 3 times looking for mushrooms and have not found the first one . most people have said look under poplar and hickory trees and you will find them. well i am here to tell ya i think is BS. because i have looked under them and around old fallen dead trees. there has to be some sort a secret to finding these morels . open to any suugestions LOL. thanks
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Post by danf on Apr 26, 2009 16:43:09 GMT -5
If you are meant to find them, you will.  Some people can walk a woods and come out with several pounds. Others, like myself, may walk the same woods and come out with a dozen or so morels. It takes a lot of time to get your eye trained right to find them. Pretty much any of them I find these days I've about stepped on while turkey hunting. ;D I just don't have the time to go to the woods to look for them. |
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Post by raporter on Apr 26, 2009 18:59:35 GMT -5
The real secret is to find them before someone else does. I find a lot in pine thickets but you have to have some hardwoods and especially elm growing in them. I have found a few hundred this year along a creek with lots of sycamores but the main thing here is a huge dead and deteriorating tree. I have found them all around that tree and within a circle of it stretching out about 30 yards and on both sides of the creek. In this area I have found only greys and yellows.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Apr 27, 2009 7:58:31 GMT -5
I spend the bulk of my time hunting the areas consisting of darker moist soft loamy soil & focusing on the Elm, Ash, & Poplar trees that seem to prefer this type of soil. To each his own though......
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Post by parrothead on Apr 27, 2009 8:44:47 GMT -5
It is also like deer and turkey hunting. YOu could be the best hunter in the world but if your woods doesnt have deer and turkey your not going to kill one.
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Post by Decatur on Apr 27, 2009 9:59:13 GMT -5
I find quite a few, especially blacks, under mayapples.
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Post by danf on Apr 28, 2009 19:50:19 GMT -5
I don't think I've *ever* found a morel under a mayapple....  |
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Post by Decatur on Apr 29, 2009 4:16:53 GMT -5
No kidding? Not being sarcastic, but do you take the time to look under them? I don't find them there every year, but I've found them often enough that I always check under them.
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Post by ihunt2liv on Apr 29, 2009 7:30:46 GMT -5
There is no secret but there are a few things that I always look for. I generally don't look for anything but dead or dying elms. I like the bark to still be on them, usually the first couple of years then they start to peter out. If you can find these trees along old railroad tracks or roadbeds in a grown up area the better. If they are on a slope even better. This is the difference between going for a walk in the woods and finding morels.
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Post by huxbux on Apr 29, 2009 19:45:13 GMT -5
I usually hunt in the hill country. I try to hunt uphill. They stand out better (for me anyway) If I start high and walk downhill, I stop every few steps and look back uphill. Looking over the same area from different perspective is also helpful. I find a good number, but the son of a friend in Brown county who grew up in the hills is the best I ever saw. We searched together last week and he directed me to pick a mushroom he had spotted from 45 feet away! It was a smallish grey to boot. The results  |
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