Rate your spring 'shrooming season...

[JP Z]

My current plan is to head out both Saturday and Sunday for mushrooms.....we'll have to see if my plans are changed though. I have yet to find much of anything this summer.

[pushbutton]

Stick is up north and sent me pics of a football sized king and slightly less than a billion chants....ok ....not that big and many....but if we don't get some rain around here, might have to head north. My year that started as a 10 is barely pushing 5 now....

[Trashguy]

Like Matt said, rain, rain, rain. The last two years we were so dam dry, July/Aug...

[Matt Breuer]

PB, aren't you near the Metro? I'm seeing tons of really good reports from the Metro on chants and kings and trumpets...

I have found 4 kings all year, and they were all toast...

[pushbutton]

Heading to the cities for shrooms just seems wrong Ethnic restaurants , the new Guthrie, a ball game, or some chamber music ......perhaps. Fully support all those that circumvent the three rivers parks mentality down there, but if it does not rain enough here tomorrow....north it will be

[jerkin'm]

Heading West isn't the worst idea either......

[Stick in Mud]

Nice find!!!!!

I was down near Rochester for the weekend, and decided to head out in search of smallmouth along the Root River instead of mushrooms in the nearby state park (with my eye firmly fixed for mushrooms, too, of course). I caught two smallmouth and found fewer mushrooms.

BUT on the way home I stopped at a few parks and found some "oldies but goodies." A few worms and some dried out spots, but after feeding my mom and dad with my special chantrelle recipe I've got three stacks in the dehydrator running right now.

Man, I love this time of year. It's as good as it gets.

[JP Z]

Yeah I did the Lobster hunt on Friday. Then yesterday I took my dad and son out for a pick on our hunting land. Found about 2lbs of Chants and a nice chicken. Was a great time.

Stick sitting there? Honey Badg.......Chantrelles Don't care!

[Matt Breuer]

Where are you located then, PB? I was just giving a general area report... like, if the Cities is popping out a pile of mushrooms, the areas around there should be too...

Was up north yesterday and found 6 chickens, 2 perfect freshies. I would say the next month will be the best part of the season...

[NoWiser]

I headed to the eastern part of the state on Saturday to pick with a friend who has been trying unsuccessfully to find his first chanterelles. We looked over some maps and decided on a spot. In 3 hours we had 6 pounds of chants, a dozen or so hedgehogs, and 3 very, very fresh chickens. It was a good time!

I'll be hitting the Brainerd area one or two mornings this coming weekend. It should be getting good up there. It was just too early there a couple weeks ago in the spots I looked, but I did scout out a new area that "should" be awesome!

It has been a great year! I absolutely love summer mushrooms!

[pushbutton]

Matt, live in the St Cloud area, and it's been dry the last month and not exactly a great chant hotbed. After seeing all the pretty pics though, Jr. and I had to hike up our skirts and headed beyond our easily accessible upland spots and hit up some lower land deeper in the woods. Not a huge haul, but coupled with what we got last week, and leaving more small ones to pick in the upcoming week, will be able to put some aside for the winter months.....

[Matt Breuer]

I scouted an area today, and checked 2 new areas as I have a guest coming this Friday for a fun pick and fish. Found lots of stuff out there, and more than enough chants. The last week has been great, with lots of species showing their beautiful faces... some pics...

Hedgies...

Cincinnatus...

Polyporous umbellatus...

Today's finds... 2 quarts of blueberries, 2 lbs.'s of chants, 2 hedgies, and an umbellatus...

[Stick in Mud]

OOOOH, an umbellatus! How did you like it? I've never seen one--not even an old, past-prime one. How was it???

[Matt Breuer]

I had never found one before either, ever, in any kind of shape. This year I've found two prime specimens. Delicious!