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| GN |
I have posted onthis subject before ad not gotten much response here. I wonder if these exist in your turkey woods in your part of Va? am I the only one on here who picks them? In little patchs in the SW va ridge country you can sometimes pick a sackful in 15 minutes. Tell me when you usually find them and what you look for,as a good placeto start your search.(early April, after a rain, near big poplar trees?) | ||
| sixshot |
GN, I usually find them around poplars as you mentioned. I also find them after a good rain in or around dry,sandy creeks or ditches. Also I find more on the south side of ridges. The ones we find are the yellow morels. We've found a few black ones but their alot smaller. How do you cook them? We split them and dip in egg batter and roll in flour, then fry in butter. I must have missed your post earlier because I love to find and eat em'. | ||
| GN |
6shot...I love 'em ( without flour or meal) just browned in butter...I use a little bitty bit of seasoning on them, but not enough to overwhelnm the delicate flavor. In fact I can never serve them to many people becasue I eat about all of them as fast as I can cook them. I have found some whoppers in some years...but mostly they are the smaller yellow ones...here is the webpage I refered to earlier this year...if you like morels, you will like this page.... http://www.bright.net/~wildwood/index.html | ||
| gobbstopper1946 |
GN I also look for Morels while I'm hunting. Two years I found a patch on top of a ridge, filled my game bag full. Came back a few days later and filled a plastic bag full. I now carry a bag with me while I turkey hunt just in case. I like to grill a steak and smother it with morels, green peppers and green onions. GS... | ||
| sixshot |
Just a suggestion. When you pick them shake them a little. That way you spread the spores on the ground and you can go back next season. Also I carry them in a old orange bag. You know the mesh type bag. I learned it from a older gentleman a while ago, Makes sense. | ||
| GN |
I still have not seen any this year...any of you found any yet? | ||
| sixshot |
nope, I usually find them around the middle or 2/3 of the way through April. When the nights start staying warm around 55-60 degrees for a week or two mixed with some warm rain you should start finding them. I'll keep ya posted if I find any. Good Luck!! Keep me posted to,o.k? | ||
| LukiLadi
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My family loves to hunt morels too. My dad went hunting about a week ago and found a couple of small ones. The problem for us is the deer seem to find them before we can. Will keep you posted if we have any luck!!! | ||
| LukiLadi
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My parents went hunting this past weekend - April 6th. Dad found 32 and mom found 13 for a total of 45. Anyone else finding any? | ||
| GN |
I looked in good places today but came up empty in East Tenn. | ||
| LukiLadi
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My parents and I went hunting again on Sunday April 14th and found about 120 morels. Boy were they good. Anyone else having any luck??? | ||
| TScottW99
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i really don't know what i'm looking for so i looked at the pictures from the page that GN posted... Have seen nothing looking that yet where I'm hunting. It did seem today though that we were having a pileated woodpecker convetion in town... which was good for me... didn't have to worry too much about locate calling  | ||
| turkeypicker |
GN's got me looking at every dead log I come to too Scott. I haven't seen anything that resembled his hickory chickens. Heck, I'm not even sure they grow here in my neck of the woods. I'll keep looking though. | ||
| sixshot |
This evening I found 20 in my honey hole. They were great big yellow and gray ones. Guys, look around deep hollers that get morning or evening sun and has an old creek or dry ditch running through it. Sandy or rich topsoil with sycamore or old dying maples is where I find them. Guess what I'm having for dinner tommorrow??? | ||
| LukiLadi
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Guys these things are pretty hard to find. You have to look really carefully. Usually they are just barely peaking out from the dead leaves. Makes it difficult to find them. Good Luck and keep us all posted. | ||
| GN |
Friend here has found three gallons while I was out of state...he is sharing some . These were at low elevation so they should be getting right soon in east tenn and sw va. | ||
| GN |
This is where the looking pays off...  | ||
| LukiLadi
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GN, How were you cooking those? Are they sauteed in butter or what? We like to clean ours, cut them in half, bread them in seasoned flour and fry them until golden brown. They are wonderful. I would like to know how other people prepare their morel mushrooms. Post your recipe ideas here. Thanks, LukiLadi PS Mom & Dad went out hunting again yesterday evening and found 40. | ||
| GN |
LL- mine are just sauteed in butter and very very light salt/pepper/ seasoning salt. They are rich. I have friends who fry them like you describe. Hard to beat anyway you do it. | ||
| GN |
LL- mine are just sauteed in butter and very very light salt/pepper/ seasoning salt. They are rich. I have friends who fry them like you describe. Hard to beat anyway you do it. | ||
| GN |
Can anybody say Giant Morel...for comparison, the smaller ones are the typical "eaters" but everyonce in a while a bigun shows up....  | ||
| GN |
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| LukiLadi
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GN, Great picture of the mushrooms. That was a big one. Looks like you pick an awful lot of the stem. We try to leave as much of that as possible as to not disturb the root so that more will come back. Keep us updated. Donna LukiLadi | ||
| Strutstopper |
GN, got me three of 'em this morning in Augusta. Not a lot, but better than nothing! They were in a bunch of maple trees on a North facing slope all the way at the bottom near a field. We only found three in the whole area, but we didn't look too hard. | ||
| PistolPete
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Hey guys, I'd like to try morel hunting; one question, can you eat em raw? Just curious.....pete | ||
| GN |
Pete- Ihave not eaten any raw...check outthe webpage listed at the top of this post, it has a lot of info on it..maybe the raw answer? | ||
| turkeyscratch |
Here's a photo of a nice pile of Morels I found in Bath county the second week of the season, they were under a small stand of Ash trees. [img]http://www.maddhattercharters.com/images/morels.jpg[/img] | ||
| GN |
'Scratch - how did I miss your call about coming up for supper? Man, ,somebody ate good there . Have you ever in prior years picked in the exact same spot wher you found these? Lukilay and others say not to takethe "root" out when you pick and leave the lower part ofthe stalk, which means you eithe cutthe m with a knife or pinch the stems...just curious as to wherey ou have a repeat place here or whether it was a firtst time find. I have several repeat places that have been "good" for years but alot of logging practices seem to have taken a lot of my old favorite places it seems. My Ky friend Peck Price says their morels sort of disappeared after the real warm weather aroundApril 2o..sort of came late and left early he says...our Tenn season was, I thought, very meager for them this year. | ||
| turkeyscratch |
GN, Yes this was an old favorite spot, we'd had plenty of rain a few days before and the deer and turkeys hadn't found them yet, I don't expect they'd have lasted much longer. Most of the other spots are under Popular trees or in old Apple orchards, this is the only Ash grove hotspot I know of. To be honest, I never thought of pinching the stems, but I'm sure they get plenty of shaking before we bag them. They keep coming back though. | ||
| turkeyscratch |
GN, I talked to my brother today for the first time since we found the Morels I posted on May 5th, he told me he went looking again the next day and found a new honeyhole under a stand of Poplars, he picked up 158 in one spot, just sat down and started picking. He was in the meat!! This time he was in Highland county, VA, only a few miles from where we found them in Bath county the day before. | ||
| GN |
Scratch- He did not call me for dinner either??He hit the honey hole for sure.GN |