WOW!!! "Epic" may be an understatement. That was so awesome. That was a fantastic idea, laying them out on top of the fallen tree trunk. That gave us a better picture of your motherlode. I thought my 22 lbs. under a dead elm was great, but you outdid me by several pounds I'm sure! Congrats! Glad you had your camera. Would have never believed it otherwise. LOL.
Lot of comments about 'proper picking methods':The morel fruiting bodies (the part you pick) isn't really the 'living growing' part of the fungi. It will survive for extended periods of time undergrounds, spreading, colonizing. When it senses that the area has been fully colonized, and it is running out of resources it will begin producing the morel mushroom portion above ground to spread spores. The actual 'ongoing living entity' (if you can call it that) is all underground. You can pick the mushrooms in any fashion, cut them, rip them out, pinch them, kick them into a bucket 5 feet away.. makes no difference to the life cycle of the fungi. It hopes to spread spores due to conditions around it, but it will make more, or not with no regard to what 'happened' to the morels it made last season.
AMEN. As a science teacher who works part time leading guided mushroom forays these comments are beyond frustrating. It's strange that people don't bother researching before they post their word-of-mouth second hand opinions as 'facts'. Absurd.
Wow!!😳😃 I’d give anything to run across a spot like that!! Seriously- OMG . I’ve always been told they won’t grow back if you pull them up- they have to be cut or pinched like the man making the video? Is that not true? Congrats, amazing find.
Son of a biscuit eater Man.....I'd be happy with a quarter of that haul....LOL Those things are Gargantuan ! Now if I could find some that size I'd be one happy camper....LOL
I have never run across a spot like this. BUMMER. The mess on the log is more than I have found in my lifetime! I think that I need to take a bigger bag to increase my optimistic KARMA!!!
Geez man! Grats on the hunt... Epic.Was gonna go today and see if I could pick some in the snow... never picked one in the snow before.....yea ,,,we got a couple inches of the white stuff......hard to believe.
Thanks buddy,,,The hill spots here have been slim pickins.. One of my honeyholes only produced 8 mushrooms. Hopefully the woods will keep producing,,,Best of luck, Mike
daaamn it , man !! I've been looking like crazy , and found two !! I'm fealin sick ...you guys are some Motherlode Mighty Monster Missouri Morel Mushroom May Madness Mayhem Maniacs !! Right-on !! Happy Hunting , huh ?!!! NO QUESTION !!!
Appreciate it man! Your vids have inspired me,,,I don't think I came close to out,doing ya.....But sure got a taste of some excellent huntin. Made memories I'll never forget. Thanks and best of luck to ya!
Got shrooms? Yikes, now that's a haul! I think you missed one though! LOL! I think between all the RUclips morel pickers, just about every tree has been mentioned as "the" tree to look under, so the rule of thumb is that there is no rule of thumb, except you need "a" tree! Thanks 4 sharing - enjoyed the shroom roundup! Btw, I used to find them in the poplars! Heh heh!
I think I saw papa smurf raise the white flag about halfway through the vid:-0 amazing hunt! Thought you might need a chainsaw to cut some of them stumps off! Monsters!
You don't need to cut them. They don't "reseed" they grow from the white thread like mycelium that is just under the leaf litter in the ground. That is what the spores grow and where the mushrooms grow from. It's the fungus type of roots. The mesh bag is not needed either as spores don't drop until the mushroom gets to a certain dryness. They have to dehydrate to the perfect dryness then the spores are dispersed. You can Harvest spores from your mushrooms and use the dried mushroom after its spored out. Keep the dried mushrooms in a jar and use later, or soak them in water to use now. Add to soups stews etc etc.
The mesh bag is a good idea to keep your picked mushrooms in good condition. If you seal them in a plastic bag without refrigeration they could get too hot and sweat and start to get mushy. Basically they could start to cook.
Went today at dif site and was finding small greys and yellows,, and half free morels too. Making for a long pickin season. Snowy morels, how freakin crazy!! Goodluck!
Nice find man! Great location I bet. I live in Illinois and the most I have ever found in a single trip was 243, mostly small greys unfortunately. Still taste great though!
Hell Yes! that was 1 Epic Day of Pickn! I know I seen some black ash &U showed a maple real good,thats a awesome spot,I have some spots that will grow alot,but dont think Ive ever picked that many in 1 day,except 1 time picked over 300 in a day, usually hit 200 a day,aCouple times a season,but most of my hill spots have been bein spotty &alot of spots I find them every yr,nothing yet? So iS EmptyPockets Ur Older Brother! iT Drives Me Nuts Knowin ther;s woods out there w/ Morels that Need Picked!
My father called these "Dry-Land Fish" he kept the location of his hunting site a very tightly held secret. He would fry them in butter and cornmeal. They were delicious!
If I had a choice I would take walking up on a patch like that over going to a super bowl, a world series, the Datona 500, an nba finals series and Disney World combined...a few years ago a buddy and I found a half acre patch with close to 15# of pretty nice yellows, my brother and I went back a week later and found a few we had missed and they had doubled in size...the spot hasn't produced but a handful since...:(
Please don't tell me you live in WS or MN...! But yeah, I'm not sure I've seen a morel harvest video on YT on this scale you guys found! Any more and you'd need to bring a pack mule with ya to haul 'em off!
Glad to see you using that onion bag so you can let the spores fall out as you walk. Up here some people have been using plastic grocery bags. Don't be those people concealing them spores in a groceries bag. Us a onion sack like these guys here are doing
Man,More Monster Morel Mushroom Motherlodes Made in Mo.,in May. If I liked Mushrooms,I be stompin another cap about now.LOL Yall musta had close to 100 lbs.
I ran across a thicket once where you couldn't take one step without almost stepping on like 5. NO LIES. We literally were picking for hours, and went back the next day to find even more. Sadly it is in public woods and someone else somehow found our spot...
We ran a log business and sawmill for years when I was a kid...We found 7 gunny sacks full one day. Had all my whole family out there picking. Way back in the early 80's.
I think that one you showed was ash but that big snag and a lot of branches you walked over looked like they could have been elm, they tend to stay up right without the bark for a long time ,some others can too, but elm tend to shag the bark and leave slic like telephone pole remains.they are all known to produce larger flushes. morels grow on rotting wood some trees dont look dead the first flush and even 1 inch elm can produce I bet by a lot of those flushes are small sapling elms
Geezzzzzz dude...that's awesome! Have never, ever got into them that thick! Woke up to white stuff on the ground here this morning and 31 degrees! Wonder if another cold snap will extend the season????
damn boy you think you an box a few of them up and send them my way ...lol... ive been sitting here with my mouth watering thinking about frying them up ... i went to my old spot and only found 2 i don't know if the drought has knock them back there or the crazy cold weather we have been having
Good information, Thanks! I need to learn my trees for sure. I can spot cedars and sycamores and that's bout it,,LoL. I have one site that produced a total of bout 500 in a cedar tree area this year,,,Happy huntin!
Man! What stste are you guys in? I got some 1 year from upper MI., dried them, had them in the cabinet with the spices I cook with, and my wife threw the "fungus" AWAY! I was livid! VERY depressing....Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I've been looking for more ever since.
Caleb, my heart goes out to you!!!! I can hardly bare knowing you've never tasted the heavenly yumminess of the golden mouth watering fungus called Morels. I'm from southern Indiana where they flourish. Part of the fun is hunting them and finding honey holes like you see in the video. The only drawback for me is the poison ivy and ticks standing between me and those beauties!
I remember one day I was out riding in the woods and I decided to take a break, looking around I saw these weird looking mushrooms and thought 'probably poisonous' and started kicking them left and right.... they were everywhere! Shit......
tdub9899 this is a year old yea.but think.bc i laughed a bit.had you been kicking poisonous shrooms left amd right.you would of been sending spores of poisonous fungi into the air all around ya...lol glad they was just morrels
We got a mine field of them down on a swamp area. Bought the land off an old guy that said it would be the greatest investment of all time. Now I know why. And I can honestly say I know vary little about mushroom hunting. I had no idea they were worth money.
drew pillow How goes the harvesting, Drew? I'm very interested in starting something like this in WA state considering we have the best climate, but need some more research.
+drew pillow Neralich was picking morels in Missouri. I just looked at ebay and yellow chanterelles are selling for $20 per dried 1/4pound (apparently it takes 2 pounds of fresh to make 1/4pnd dry, I read that somewhere,another guy selling them).
awsome haul! i cant believe how nice the weather looks! the date says 5-2? that was yesterday and i had 3 inches of snow on the ground with almost blizzard conditions.lol
WHAT STATE IS THS VIDEO FROM ?? im a new guy, and I lived in western new York state all of my life, and I have NEVER heard anyone say anything about Morels!! we had lots of apple orchards, but I have never even seen a morel !! or ate one either!
That won't work unless spores are ripe lose ready to fall lol but ur supposed to use knife razor or scissors and by leaving bit at base undisturbed behind it'll regrow same spot and u can return over n over like shearing a sheep but plucking most or all from soil like these dudes then it won't stay alive and regrow I would
....And the maples,,,I don't know my trees unless it's a cedar so I tend to bumble around from tree to tree and stumble into 'em. (DUMB LUCK) haha,,Thanks for watchin and GL!
These guys are having the time of their lives harvesting the mushrooms! I'd love to find a mess like that myself!
WOW!!! "Epic" may be an understatement. That was so awesome. That was a fantastic idea, laying them out on top of the fallen tree trunk. That gave us a better picture of your motherlode. I thought my 22 lbs. under a dead elm was great, but you outdid me by several pounds I'm sure! Congrats! Glad you had your camera. Would have never believed it otherwise. LOL.
I found 11 this year for the first time ever andI was super pumped up. This looks awesome, good for you!
Nice find !
Talk about marking your spot !
You totally scored big !
Your take was absolutely spectacular !
This video is like a dream come true! Oh, I got the fever. Awesome shrooms!
Nice mother load! I hope you had the same luck this year. Thank you for sharing. EYE CANDY!!!!
Lot of comments about 'proper picking methods':The morel fruiting bodies (the part you pick) isn't really the 'living growing' part of the fungi. It will survive for extended periods of time undergrounds, spreading, colonizing. When it senses that the area has been fully colonized, and it is running out of resources it will begin producing the morel mushroom portion above ground to spread spores. The actual 'ongoing living entity' (if you can call it that) is all underground. You can pick the mushrooms in any fashion, cut them, rip them out, pinch them, kick them into a bucket 5 feet away.. makes no difference to the life cycle of the fungi. It hopes to spread spores due to conditions around it, but it will make more, or not with no regard to what 'happened' to the morels it made last season.
AMEN. As a science teacher who works part time leading guided mushroom forays these comments are beyond frustrating. It's strange that people don't bother researching before they post their word-of-mouth second hand opinions as 'facts'. Absurd.
Wow!!😳😃 I’d give anything to run across a spot like that!! Seriously- OMG . I’ve always been told they won’t grow back if you pull them up- they have to be cut or pinched like the man making the video? Is that not true? Congrats, amazing find.
Son of a biscuit eater Man.....I'd be happy with a quarter of that haul....LOL Those things are Gargantuan ! Now if I could find some that size I'd be one happy camper....LOL
I got a spot that almost has compared to that here in Missouri right of the Missouri river. Loving your energy! Moral FEVER! Lol good look everyone
I have never run across a spot like this. BUMMER. The mess on the log is more than I have found in my lifetime! I think that I need to take a bigger bag to increase my optimistic KARMA!!!
Geez man! Grats on the hunt... Epic.Was gonna go today and see if I could pick some in the snow... never picked one in the snow before.....yea ,,,we got a couple inches of the white stuff......hard to believe.
Thanks buddy,,,The hill spots here have been slim pickins.. One of my honeyholes only produced 8 mushrooms. Hopefully the woods will keep producing,,,Best of luck, Mike
Great vid guys it got me stoked to hit the woods!
wow cant beleve you ate them with soaking all the bugs out first ha ha love it nice find
daaamn it , man !! I've been looking like crazy , and found two !! I'm fealin sick ...you guys are some Motherlode Mighty Monster Missouri Morel Mushroom May Madness Mayhem Maniacs !! Right-on !! Happy Hunting , huh ?!!! NO QUESTION !!!
Only thing better then finding morels with a good buddy like that is he doesn't like eating em. Just pickin em.
Cool! Can't wait for spring
Killer hunt bro...that's definitely a hunt to remember! Congrats!
Appreciate it man! Your vids have inspired me,,,I don't think I came close to out,doing ya.....But sure got a taste of some excellent huntin. Made memories I'll never forget. Thanks and best of luck to ya!
Got shrooms? Yikes, now that's a haul! I think you missed one though! LOL! I think between all the RUclips morel pickers, just about every tree has been mentioned as "the" tree to look under, so the rule of thumb is that there is no rule of thumb, except you need "a" tree! Thanks 4 sharing - enjoyed the shroom roundup! Btw, I used to find them in the poplars! Heh heh!
Lol, Thanks for the mushroom idea, sounds yuMMy! Suppose to rain,,,we'll see, lol, Happy pickinz:-)
I think I saw papa smurf raise the white flag about halfway through the vid:-0 amazing hunt! Thought you might need a chainsaw to cut some of them stumps off! Monsters!
You don't need to cut them. They don't "reseed" they grow from the white thread like mycelium that is just under the leaf litter in the ground. That is what the spores grow and where the mushrooms grow from. It's the fungus type of roots. The mesh bag is not needed either as spores don't drop until the mushroom gets to a certain dryness. They have to dehydrate to the perfect dryness then the spores are dispersed. You can Harvest spores from your mushrooms and use the dried mushroom after its spored out. Keep the dried mushrooms in a jar and use later, or soak them in water to use now. Add to soups stews etc etc.
The mesh bag is a good idea to keep your picked mushrooms in good condition. If you seal them in a plastic bag without refrigeration they could get too hot and sweat and start to get mushy. Basically they could start to cook.
Went today at dif site and was finding small greys and yellows,, and half free morels too. Making for a long pickin season. Snowy morels, how freakin crazy!! Goodluck!
WOW, never seen so many in one spot. Nice. Thanks for the vid.
wow, more morels than you can shake a stick at, bigguns too. nice haul Jason, keep at it bro.
Great video guys, that was fun to watch!
Awesome find! Well done
This is like.. I'm just like... Just wow man, incredible... Nice work
Man I was pumped up finding half a bread sack full here in the Hoosier state today.
Nice find man! Great location I bet. I live in Illinois and the most I have ever found in a single trip was 243, mostly small greys unfortunately. Still taste great though!
Grey's are the tastiest ones!
Now that's a bunch of hickory chickens. Bunch of money also. Morel prices are wild.
God that's beautiful! I've never hit a load that big. What state is this?
That's insane! Snow in May,,wtf??!! Thanks for tuning in, It was an awesome hunt! GL
Damn Jed yer happier than a lizard on a hot rock, but relax man yer stepping n smashin' on some of'em!!
Hell Yes! that was 1 Epic Day of Pickn! I know I seen some black ash &U showed a maple real good,thats a awesome spot,I have some spots that will grow alot,but dont think Ive ever picked that many in 1 day,except 1 time picked over 300 in a day, usually hit 200 a day,aCouple times a season,but most of my hill spots have been bein spotty &alot of spots I find them every yr,nothing yet? So iS EmptyPockets Ur Older Brother! iT Drives Me Nuts Knowin ther;s woods out there w/ Morels that Need Picked!
Damn that's a lot of freaking mushrooms! I have found several in a single hunt but that is just nuttz!! Congrats boys, I hope you are selling them!
My father called these "Dry-Land Fish" he kept the location of his hunting site a very tightly held secret. He would fry them in butter and cornmeal. They were delicious!
You lucky 🍀 Son of a Gun! I’m Jonesing for a mess of those baby’s just now.
If I had a choice I would take walking up on a patch like that over going to a super bowl, a world series, the Datona 500, an nba finals series and Disney World combined...a few years ago a buddy and I found a half acre patch with close to 15# of pretty nice yellows, my brother and I went back a week later and found a few we had missed and they had doubled in size...the spot hasn't produced but a handful since...:(
Creek bottom or floodplain just curious of the habit looked like a creek bottom nice find!
Best video ever!! I'd die and go to heaven
Please don't tell me you live in WS or MN...! But yeah, I'm not sure I've seen a morel harvest video on YT on this scale you guys found! Any more and you'd need to bring a pack mule with ya to haul 'em off!
Always pinch the stem. That's a great find! What trees are they under?
"they're everywhere", except where I live.
Thanks man! I didn't step on half but I sure did stomp on a few more than I would have liked to lol,,,Thanks for watchin
What state I'm in Tennessee n I found them high up on a mountain and not that big
Glad to see you using that onion bag so you can let the spores fall out as you walk. Up here some people have been using plastic grocery bags. Don't be those people concealing them spores in a groceries bag. Us a onion sack like these guys here are doing
Ate my first Morel yesterday, these things are so good I can't believe wildlife doesn't eat them as soon as they pop the surface
Nice polyporos squamosus (Dryad's Saddle) towards the end there!
Man,More Monster Morel Mushroom Motherlodes Made in Mo.,in May. If I liked Mushrooms,I be stompin another cap about now.LOL Yall musta had close to 100 lbs.
Looked like a three trip adventure just to haul all of them out of the woods . Congrats
I ran across a thicket once where you couldn't take one step without almost stepping on like 5. NO LIES. We literally were picking for hours, and went back the next day to find even more. Sadly it is in public woods and someone else somehow found our spot...
I cried a little watching that
We ran a log business and sawmill for years when I was a kid...We found 7 gunny sacks full one day. Had all my whole family out there picking. Way back in the early 80's.
I think that one you showed was ash but that big snag and a lot of branches you walked over looked like they could have been elm, they tend to stay up right without the bark for a long time ,some others can too, but elm tend to shag the bark and leave slic like telephone pole remains.they are all known to produce larger flushes. morels grow on rotting wood some trees dont look dead the first flush and even 1 inch elm can produce I bet by a lot of those flushes are small sapling elms
I love mother loads....too cool
Geezzzzzz dude...that's awesome! Have never, ever got into them that thick! Woke up to white stuff on the ground here this morning and 31 degrees! Wonder if another cold snap will extend the season????
Wow! ....I don't think yoi will ever forget that day
that's so cool I can't wait to go in April for the forie in 2016 big John
damn boy you think you an box a few of them up and send them my way ...lol... ive been sitting here with my mouth watering thinking about frying them up ... i went to my old spot and only found 2 i don't know if the drought has knock them back there or the crazy cold weather we have been having
YUMMMY makes me hungry just looking at them!!!
Good information, Thanks! I need to learn my trees for sure. I can spot cedars and sycamores and that's bout it,,LoL. I have one site that produced a total of bout 500 in a cedar tree area this year,,,Happy huntin!
Unreal! Awesome!!!!
Wow, sure wish you described the type of woods/area you were in so I could look in the same in my area.
Michael P we just found some today! They grow in shady damp (not wet) places usually near ash or oak trees, happy hunting!
Good job brother shroomer, it makes you feel like someone loves ya. Great day I've had a few of those days.keep on always trust in Jesus
Dude, totally awesome!
This is totally insane......AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks man! Hope ya get on 'em soon,,Goodluck!
Unreal guys great job!)
Man! What stste are you guys in? I got some 1 year from upper MI., dried them, had them in the cabinet with the spices I cook with, and my wife threw the "fungus" AWAY! I was livid! VERY depressing....Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I've been looking for more ever since.
Bout a mile inland,,,Goodluck bro!
I've never ever seen or been on mushrooms like this
Caleb, my heart goes out to you!!!! I can hardly bare knowing you've never tasted the heavenly yumminess of the golden mouth watering fungus called Morels. I'm from southern Indiana where they flourish. Part of the fun is hunting them and finding honey holes like you see in the video. The only drawback for me is the poison ivy and ticks standing between me and those beauties!
+denkidog o I have tasted these delicious mushrooms but I have to walk for days to get a mess like that.
I remember one day I was out riding in the woods and I decided to take a break, looking around I saw these weird looking mushrooms and thought 'probably poisonous' and started kicking them left and right.... they were everywhere! Shit......
tdub9899 this is a year old yea.but think.bc i laughed a bit.had you been kicking poisonous shrooms left amd right.you would of been sending spores of poisonous fungi into the air all around ya...lol glad they was just morrels
We got a mine field of them down on a swamp area. Bought the land off an old guy that said it would be the greatest investment of all time. Now I know why. And I can honestly say I know vary little about mushroom hunting. I had no idea they were worth money.
drew pillow How goes the harvesting, Drew? I'm very interested in starting something like this in WA state considering we have the best climate, but need some more research.
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+drew pillow Neralich was picking morels in Missouri. I just looked at ebay and yellow chanterelles are selling for $20 per dried 1/4pound (apparently it takes 2 pounds of fresh to make 1/4pnd dry, I read that somewhere,another guy selling them).
+drew pillow I meant yellow morels. I guess they like growing where elm trees are.
+drew pillow LOL
What type of trees were in that area?
just won the shroom lottery
I love it ~!!! What state?
The root structure of those are everywhere under those leaves it won't matter if you pull em
I would pick the big ones and leave the small ones for a few days to get bigger then just come back and get them.
awsome haul! i cant believe how nice the weather looks! the date says 5-2? that was yesterday and i had 3 inches of snow on the ground with almost blizzard conditions.lol
Where do you sell these things? What are they worth a pound?
Great stuff guys!
love any mushroom. is there any bad ones that look like the Morels ?
There are a few known as false morels, a google search will help you identify them.
Jim Gill better yet a good mushroom field guide. That way, you can learn about the hundreds of other wonderful edibles, all year round!
WHAT STATE IS THS VIDEO FROM ?? im a new guy, and I lived in western new York state all of my life, and I have NEVER heard anyone say anything about Morels!! we had lots of apple orchards, but I have never even seen a morel !! or ate one either!
He's in Missouri which is one of the main morel capitals of the world
idk hownthese shrooms seed but im sure its good to tap them three times after picking one up to ensure youll have some again !
That won't work unless spores are ripe lose ready to fall lol but ur supposed to use knife razor or scissors and by leaving bit at base undisturbed behind it'll regrow same spot and u can return over n over like shearing a sheep but plucking most or all from soil like these dudes then it won't stay alive and regrow I would
Good gracious man! What state are you in?
What are the months to do mushrooming, I would love to do it...
You guys are probably picking them left and right this year by now too? im from ohio and theyre not quite popped up here yet.
We aint got on 'em yet.... I'm hittin the woods hard this weekend,,, Should be up for sure! Thankx for watchin
Mind is fully blown... Unable to take it all in... Crazy! What planet were you guys on? Lol!
What do you do with all those mushrooms? Do you sell them?
The feeling must be better than hitting jackpot I wish I could find one
Well if ya lived around here I'd give ya some,,,Talk to your locals or check online (craiglist, etc) ?? Thanks for watchin!
what state were you in?
Are they good eating?
Thank ya!
Me and my old man would call this a " HOT BED!" of mushrooms!
what part of missouri? I can tell by the bags..I have a team..
....And the maples,,,I don't know my trees unless it's a cedar so I tend to bumble around from tree to tree and stumble into 'em. (DUMB LUCK) haha,,Thanks for watchin and GL!
Where is this?