They're Here

[fishersofmen]

I found a pile of big yellows and some greys yesterday in wright county.

[BryanL]

I'm having a tough go of it. My usually honey hole only had about 20 the other day. Spent over an hour looking in river bottoms of St. Paul today and found nothing. No stems, no fresh one and no old ones. Not sure what is going on but I am bummed out.

[TigerBlood]

I'm disappointed so far as well. My spot which produced lots of HUGE morels last year has popped out a dozen or so but they only made it to about 2-3 inches. I picked them this a.m. as they were already a week old and some were drying out. I thought this was going to be a great year. There's still time but I'm starting to worry this year isn't going to be as good as last year which is surprising considering the rain we had.

[DARK30]

Too late for these...

But not for these..

[Beast26]

None on Thursday of last week and got home from up north last night and spent about an hour in the woods. Found probably three dozen big blondes and a half dozen of the smaller blacks. I am guessing it will be really good tomorrow now that we've had more rain and humidity. Still only finding them on south facing slopes that should change with the warmer weather. No big groups found yet. Just one here and three there.

[Beast26]

Oh btw the state bird has hatched in the northwest metro in the last couple days. You will need bug spray from here on out. Just brutal last night.

[pushbutton]

Yeah, noticed that as well the last few days. Bummer. These are the big ones though. We only have a couple more weeks till the billions of little ones start hatching. Here is to hoping for a hard July frost.....

[Beast26]

Oh anyone else stumbled upon any newborn fawns in the last couple days? I was inches from stepping on one last Wednesday night as I went over a fallen log. Got some really cool pictures of it from about 3 feet away. Amazed at how they lay there so still thinking you don't see them. Momma no where to be seen at the time.

[flipper]

Interesting that you mentioned the fawns. I came across one about an hour ago while picking shrooms. All curled up in the weeds. It wasn't exactly newborn but a couple weeks old or so I would guess.

[fishersofmen]

Oh btw the state bird has hatched in the northwest metro in the last couple days. You will need bug spray from here on out. Just brutal last night.

I work outside and got absolutely butchered all day today. With all the rain we had this spring we are in for a terrible summer.

[Stick in Mud]

I just got back, and I also saw horrid numbers of them. Worse than normal, that's for sure.

But that's part of the fun, right?

[DARK30]

Yup, The skeeters are here too..thick in the bottoms. I tried some of the new deep woods off "dry" and it seemed to work well.

I did find a few over 50 this afternoon. Perfect eaters. I also found many that were past the good stage.

[leech~~]

You know what I like about the little gray's coming first! They make it way easy to see the big yellow soft balls when they show up!

[Stick in Mud]

Nice finds, guys. You whooped me today. I got enough for a little cheese ravioli with pesto sauce, but that's about it.

[Beast26]

Found a spot I had walked by about a dozen times in the last few weeks last night loaded with big yellows. Picked about 60 in ten minutes then got out of the bugs.

[JP Z]

Awesome finds guys!!!! I need to find some spots around me as well.........but holy carp!!! The skeeters are crazy now.

[archerystud]

Took a buddy out to our hunting land and we each got a nice batch for a couple of meals. Probably left about 50 in the woods as those were pretty dried up

I have to share a funny story about it though. I always heard "look up to find morels", you know look for dead trees....

Anyways, I told my buddy we were close to where a big Cottonwood had tipped over roots and all and I wanted to check it out. I found a couple next to the tree and my buddy walked around to the backside of the roots/dirt. Sure enough there was a morel in the roots about 8-9 feet off the ground!!!

We were so excited to finally get into them that I didn't get a pic of my buddy climbing up to the the mushroom.

[JIvers]

I have not found a morel yet this year. That is mostly because I have not had the time to look.

Tomorrow afternoon I head for Fillmore County to try and salvage something for this year. Two weeks ago I was too early; this weekend I hope I am not too late.

[Nature'sCorner]

Wright county; hard to find, towards the end, and great in our eggs for breakfast!

[not_nuf_time]

Try rain gear (I know to warm) and hunting mosquito net, the only exposed skin is hands works like a charm.

[JIvers]

Count me as another person in southeastern Minnesota/southwest Wisconsin whose usually reliable spots did not produce many morels this spring.

My thick timber with heavier clay soil that gave me a lot of morels the previous three years did not have a single morel today that I could find. None. Two weeks ago was too early, but if they were not there today they will not be there until 2015.

My other timber with sandier soil got me off the schneid today, as I found about fifteen nice big yellows around one tree that gave me probably forty last year. Aside from that I found nothing there, either, but that woods is always more boom-or-bust. I can look for an hour without finding a thing there, and then find fifty right around one tree.

Anyhow, I am going to go back and cruise the sandier timber tomorrow after some trout-fishing, and call it a year for morels.

And the asparagus that was just starting to sprout two weeks ago was in full seed today, although I was able to find a few new shoots that will make for good eating. Fresh morels, asparagus, and trout--mmmmm.

[Lunker]

I didn't hunt too hard this spring, but have been hearing stories of mixed success. Here's a friends find from today in NE WI. 2 guys. Crazy

[pushbutton]

Found these a couple hundred feet from the house. Guess it is better to be lucky than good.....

[pushbutton]

So went out this morning and found more in the cottonwood stand on the property. Anyone else ever find them by cottonwoods? Well, suppose people have, just that all you ever hear is elms. Certainly a poplar taxonomy link here though as looked elsewhere and the only 3 spots had poplar species above them. Not really any dead one either.....very far from a morel expert, but the morel stork must also come from branches that fall. Don't know if they have always been there, never looked, or that the morel gods dumped a sweet one on me with all the rain this year? Suppose it is what it is....and will get the rugrat out after school and just enjoy it.....

[NoWiser]

This thread is killing me!! I've been able to get out exactly ZERO times this spring since my Wisconsin trip which was a little too early to be productive. I know there are mushrooms out like crazy, and drive by spots where I find them every year, but I haven't had so much as a spare hour to go pick them! I'm resigned to the fact that I won't be picking morels this year.

I'm hoping to make up for it by getting some oysters in Canada in a couple weeks, and then hitting the summer shrooming extra hard to make up for it. I finished the last of my chanterelles yesterday so hopefully we have a good year for them.