Morrels?

[watermen]

When I was in London (2001 - 2002), some of the outdoor produce markets there had fresh morrels for sale. This is the only time I have ever seen them for sale. They cost $26 per pound. I confess. I bought some.

If anyone in the Cassville, Holiday Island, Shell Knob area wanted to teach me how to hunt for them, I would promise to stay away from their locations, and I would show them what a trained Cordon Bleu chef can do with them.

Rps'

They're kind of where you find them. River bottoms around here are best. Always check around dead cottonwoods or dead elms. Black ash trees around the drip line on the south side of the tree is also worth a try. As you find a good area you can go back year after year, some better than others. I usually find them turkey hunting,and the up side to all this rain is the woods will be quite and full of morels. Burn areas where conservation has been in and burned state forest can be real good as well. good luck and burn some shoeleather you'll find some.

[jscheetz]

You are right, you can find them anywhere! But the last few years I haven't had as much time to hunt them as I used to - but I have found a "patch" that produces a ton of shrooms every year! It is in the same place! About a 1 foot square area - and there I find enough mushrooms for several meals every year. And the best part about it is - It is right down at the end of my lane...... in my mailbox...... My blessed Mother in law sends me a big box of 'em every year She has a farm in Ill and they are thick there. It is the most consistant patch I have found them in for all the years I have been hunting!!!

Sure - it takes a bit of the "fun" out of the hunting and the walking in the woods part - but in the last few years going to this particular "patch" I have never had a tick on me or had any run ins with snakes!

Happy Hunting -

JS