Mushrooms and Cottonmouth by the river

[dan hufferd]

I am a little late with this, but to the creek and river floater be careful when approaching brush piles and banks. This snake was nearing it's shedding time and was defensive. A poorly placed a hand or foot would have made for a bad day.

Picked up 34 mushrooms after the snake siting. That was a good thing !

 

 

[slab slinger]

Congrats on the shrooms Dan. Great vid. I don't mind snakes as long as I see them first. Haha. 

[Johnsfolly]

I love the video. Looks like nice fresh morels are for dinner.

[dan hufferd]

Thank you guys for the complements.  I like to know what the environment looks like around different Missouri forage, so that was my motivation for this little movie, and this location is a new one for me,  it was odd where they were growing. Not an open location, very tangled, which my have contributed to the small size. Almost all were uniformly small even the dry ones. 

[slab slinger]

If you feel safe leaving the small ones and rain is in the forecast the will get big. Morels can sit at idle waiting for rain up to a week or two given no frost. I tried this a couple yrs ago and it's true. Went back and those 2 inch smalls were now 5 and 6 inches tall. It is a gamble though with other hunters or no rain in site you could return to nothing or a real meal.  Hard to do this on public but I promise it's the truth.