do any you guys hunt morrell mushrooms or as we call them in these parts hickory chickens,some folks callem dry land fish.they are just starting to come up around here ive found about 4 dozen in 2 days while turkey hunting.
I haven't in a long time, but if you'd like to invite me over for supper I'd accept. :yoyo: :biggrin:
Were getting ready to. :yoyo: It hasnt been warm enough up here yet but it's getting close.
RRRRRrreal close :eyebrow:
As much time as I have spent in the woods , I have yet to even see one. I don't know if htey even grow in western Ky for certain. I would definately like to try them. Jimmie
They'll be poppin' up here real soon. I still haven't had a chance to dig a mess of ramps yet.
Quote from: Jimmie in Ky on April 12, 2010, 11:01:02 PM
As much time as I have spent in the woods , I have yet to even see one. I don't know if htey even grow in western Ky for certain. I would definately like to try them. Jimmie
We used to hunt them in the LBL. They are definitely in West KY. :wink:
Maybe I am missing something then. I have looked all around the house and at my dads place nearby, nada. Only place I haven't been is hte swamp down the road. Jimmie
Look in moist woods not the swamp. Look around old ash, poplar, or even elm trees if you have any. Morels are not every where. But if you can find where they are, odds are they will be there again next year. Right now is prime time in KY.
here jimmie is a picture to help you
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What is the fascination with Morels :shrug: . I've had them sent up to me and they really aren't that much different from any other fungus in my considered[I was considering not posting at all] opinion.
Well, I just came in from such a woods as you describe Semp. Not a one to be found. All along the creek bank is nothing but poplar,elm,maple,ash, sweetgum and such. Hell I even found a freshly hatched batch of toad frog tradpoles, but no morrels.Tadpoles will be coon food real soon when hte water puddles dry up. And I got me a real good load of ticks to boot :rolleye: Jimmie
They're like gold when they are fresh Barry. You can't freeze them or store them without losing a lot of what your after them for.
When they are fresh they beat anything you have ever put in your mouth before, that my opinion. Most either love them or hate them, not much of an in between.
They are so highly sought after that they sell for anywhere from $10.00 to $25.00 per pound, and thats here where they are bountiful. You can imagine what they sell for in areas that dont have them.
Morels are one of the few things that nobody, nowhere has ever been able to recreate or intentionally grow.
Thanks Jim. Do they only grow this time of year?
Yep, only in the spring, and only after it starts getting warm, especially in the evening. It last for a couple weeks tops, and it's all done till next year.
Guess I'll never get to try a fresh one then :madd:.
You know where I live :eyebrownod:
You'd probably be good at hunting them too. Most people walk right on them and mash them into the ground and then say there aint nothing here.
My brother taught me how to find them when no one else could. Boy that ticked me off when I would be walking around for hours bent over trying to look under the little patches of greening weeds, and may apples in their infant stages to see if there was any morels under it.
I'd see him going where I just came from and I'd yell....."I already looked there".
He'd hold up a plastic shopping bag that looked like it was full of tennis balls, and yell back..."oh really?"
:doh2:
You can buy the spore kits now for morels. They are working on taming them , but so far only seasonal production.
Jimmie
Yeah the spore kits are really nothing more then little spores found in the bottom of the bags from collecting the morels. And that theory has proven a failure all too many times because for the longest time it was believed that if you collected the morels in a turkey net bag and shook it through your yard you could grow them.
I've never heard of a single case of it working.
There's some kind of reaction to rain water running off of a dead Elm tree and saturating the ground all year long, that produces this odd gourmet nibblet that a spore bag just cant compete with.
I've even found them on cow trails a hundred yards or better away from a dead elm. Which meant the cows were carrying the ground saturated fungal juices or whatever down the trail on their hooves.
I am probably wrong, but it seems to me my dad used to find them along the roots of old dead trees like Ash or Elm. He said they only grow after the tree has died and started to decay. :shrug: That was about 40 years ago, so don't quote me.
Nope that makes perfect sense and is right in line with a lot of what I've been saying too. Something happens there that just cant be reproduced by man.
The ultimate spot is a dead Elm on a hill side, and you need to be looking on the downhill side. (where the water runs)
But Ash, cottonwood, etc are certainly not exempt. :nono:
i find them around here mostly around here on hill sides near poplar and elm trees but they dont grow under every poplar or elm though (lol) i find most where on a hill side theres like a small flat spot or a ditch some that holds a little more moister than the rest of the hill side.i do find some late in the spring in creek bottoms near sycomore trees there usually big yellow ones.
They are giving specifics with the kits for raising them. Therre has been some success at it because of those high prices. But raising the shitakes are much easier in my opinion. Not to mention being able to force them at any time it is warm enough.
The elm I just cut down was very dead and not a shroom anywhere around it. I have aplace covered with just the trees everyone mentions . I have even got down on my knees looking around those things and have yet to find any. The north side of hte swamp is sounding more like it with each post you make. Plenty of elm and poplar there and ash as well. Plenty of trees on the ground too. If there was a place around here with them that should be it. It rarely floods there and the ground is just moist most of the time. Jimmie
They are just starting to come up here. And in this part of VA the best place is under and around apple trees. (I live in an old apple orchard... :eyebrow: )
It's been so dry here, it's no use to even bother. Once we get a little rain though, they will be poppin' up.
We use to hunt for them with my grandparents along the Republican River Valley in southwest Nebraska. About the only two trees in that area then were Elm and Cottonwood trees. We would find a bunch of them and then spend that night gorging ourselves on the crazy things. I don't look for them anymore as the places I would find them here are usually chucked full of rattlesnakes and copperheads and Lord knows I don't like Mr. Noshoulders at all. I figure he could keep them. :eyebrownod:
went out yesterday and found some. about a dozen mixed between white and blacks. I plan on frying them up in butter with trout fillets tommarow night. should make a tasty supper. anyone in northcentral pa wants some come on over I will have plenty.
that sounds good ben they are awsom with fish
I'll be there, should I bring a dish to pass?
Quote from: FinsnFur on April 15, 2010, 08:43:08 PM
I'll be there, should I bring a dish to pass?
I doubt you need that dish Jim. I'm sure they'll just hand you the cash to get you back up North. :laf: :laf:
Dont be a Glen :doh2: :laf:
Nothing here yet. But I will be going out and looking today after my interview.
Quote from: awh on April 13, 2010, 11:49:11 PM
They are just starting to come up here. And in this part of VA the best place is under and around apple trees. (I live in an old apple orchard... :eyebrow: )
Orchards are always good, but I always heard that the dead elms had to be standing & losing their bark.
Here's a whopper I found once. That's a 45lc w/ a 5
1/
2" barrel for size comparison ....
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We're getting some rain. Tomorrow may be a good day.
On the subject of mushrooms, Jimmie mentioned shitakes. My wife has a recipe that uses steaks from a bull and shitake mushrooms. It's called...
Bullshitake... and I get fed a lot of it.
Quote from: msmith on April 17, 2010, 12:47:09 PM
On the subject of mushrooms, Jimmie mentioned shitakes. My wife has a recipe that uses steaks from a bull and shitake mushrooms. It's called...
Bullshitake... and I get fed a lot of it.
:confused: That would explain why you're so fluent in it then. :yoyo: :yoyo: :alscalls: :alscalls:
hey BOBEYE ill trade you a bag of mushrooms for a great big ole slice of that cake your wife makes! have you guys seen these cakes there awsome
Quoteconfused That would explain why you're so fluent in it then. yoyo yoyo
Some attributes just stand out don't they? :eyebrownod:
Quote from: msmith on April 17, 2010, 04:39:02 PM
Quoteconfused That would explain why you're so fluent in it then. yoyo yoyo
Some attributes just stand out don't they? :eyebrownod:
:eyebrownod: :eyebrownod: