Anyone Finding Morels Yet?

[DChance]

Should be close. What will this cold stretch do to them? Will it stall it a little?

[jdmidwest]

I have been looking for a hot model all my life. I like them in the warmer weather, they tend to wear less clothes.

[DChance]

Lol. darn auto correct on these phones

[DChance]

There fixed it

[Gavin]

Foliage is just emerging...Should be picking soon.

[Fishslayer88]

I found 30 or so today mostly small finger sized grey's.

[DChance]

I am a beginner at this. I know to look for elm and ash trees etc. but is there a certain soil or floor growth to look for or stay away from? Just looking for hints that point me in the right directions to find some.

I also know morel hunting is like fishing, there is no perfect way to find them, but I don't want to waste time in areas that wont have any.

thanks guys.

[DChance]

will this cold stretch stall them now?? or should I still be out looking after this rain/snow?

[vonreed]

The ground has been warm so far which I believe will have already started the growing process underground. All they need is some moisture, which they got last night. I think they will pop up today some even with it being colder than ideal temps. Last year was my best year ever and we had a snowfall after the morels had already started growing so I don't think tonights low temps will hurt them. I have found morels in all places. Next to roads, in ditches, on bluffs, in yards, in red clay, under cedars, sycamores, ash, dead elms plus I'm sure more. This time of year I would be looking at the mostly south facing hills which will collect the most warmth and get them started earlier than on the less sunny parts. My buddy found a 3 inch morel Saturday afternoon down at the Blunk Hole on the bank. I bet there had been hundreds of people walk right past it. He drug the kayak down the bank first and turned around and found it. You just never know where one will be. All I can say is good luck and walk a LOT.

[blue79]

Just walk and walk and keep looking.I dont limit myself to any certain type of trees.I dont find them under big groups of cedar trees but if there is just a couple of cedars in an area i will for sure look around them.I had 1 cedar tree i always found 10-20 small ones every year and i went and checked it one year and found 1 huge one instead(my pic/avatar)

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The next year the power company cleared that tree line so that spot is gone now.

My buddy has a big cedar tree and he finds a bunch under it every year.This was a small lunchbox cooler full he found one year under that cedar.

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One year he waited for them to get bigger but they didnt grow any bigger.All the bigger yellow-red ones grew further down in the woods.

I was picking some once on the edge of the woods and decided to walk across a field to the next tree line,and there was a 20ft by 20ft area in the middle of the field that had hundreds of little trees about the size of my thumb and 6ft tall and the morels were scattered in between them.I never found any in the field or around the trees,just under them.I think when the spores got blown across the field that little group of trees caught them and they fell to the ground.I think the same applys to a lone cedar tree.It catches all the spores when they blow through.

When im walking the woods along a creek i look for a big white sycamore tree.Ive had better luck starting in that area just because when i find morels there is usually a sycamore pretty close and i can spot that kind of tree from a long way off.

I used to dig in an old dump from the 1800's-1940 for stoneware and old bottles,and i decided to go one more time before the snakes got real thick and when i walked into the area all i saw was mushrooms.There was literally thousands of them growing through the woods growing up through all the broken glass,metal,dirt.They were all the big yellow ones and couldnt eat any of them cause they all had little pieces of glass in them,not even going to mention all the toxic stuff that was in that dump.

I found some once in a treeline along some railroad tracks and found some growing in the rocks next to the tracks.

Most of my spots came from driving all the back gravel roads real slow and scouring the edge of the tree lines.When i spot one ill park the car and pick what i can by the road and then try to get permission from the land owners to walk their property.

Once they are pretty big you can spot them,and then next year go back to all the spots you found and then find the small blacks-greys.