I have hunted those for 40 years and never ate one. I always saved them all for my mom and dad for mother's day. They are gone now and I have had 10 years of tasting why they loved them so much. Thank you for sharing your video.
I am 60 years old N W Missouri. I have found yellows gray white blacks and red in the spring button tops. All side by side. Ground temp,moisture and wind seems to make a difference. I havedound them in plowed fields 100 yards from trees elms pine spruce even cotton woods. Osage orange. Clusters singles. I have found grays next to yellows where grays were beer bottle size and yellows didn't get over 3 inches talk. Along creeks where I have picked 3 to 5 pounds daily in the same spot. In my yard 8 10 inches tall in the afternoon where u cut the grass that morning. Just got to look is all
My first year hunting morel's in Oklahoma was AMAZING. It would be nothing to find over 250 in one hunt. 450 plus was our best day ever. Always in the same areas. Never 8 hours worth. over time, 3 or 4 years later, other people started hunting the land, we seldom ever go there anymore. A friend of ours has just a pinch of property and the morels grow in his front yard literally! He doesn't eat them (WHAT!!!) GIANT ones grow in a few spots, huge monsters! upwards of 9 inches. We get more than enough morels to last us and share with our son on his small patch of land (it. is. insane.) We never pick every single one we see. They are such a blessing for us to enjoy and we never have picked every single one we have seen either. The nice thing about our friends place is we don't have to worry about the wild hogs rooting or coming through. We have been blessed to avoid it but we have seen their destruction in the woods/forest. Thank you for your video!!
I also found my earliest Morels this year on March 5th. In Charlotte, NC. My previous earliest date was March 20th.They love Ash trees and privet here. Ended the season with 206 Morels. It was a strange season where they came up early, then stopped, then had a second flush about three weeks later.
Sweet probably not a good sign for finding them when turkey season opens my aunt and uncle live south of Nashville I plan on going down there to hunt turkeys can't wait I was hoping to find some mushrooms also.
@@AKFF320 I have no idea . I live in Cedar Park and , everything has been destroyed by developers , and I'm not able to access land with any frequency . But I don't remember ever finding morels here , doesn't mean there are not any .....
This happens to me with everything I forage. I see it once, and I’ll see it everywhere. I never find stuff when I’m looking for it though lol at least not until I’ve found it once before
WOW mushrooms March 1st??? looks like a good season... hope they start popping here in Iowa...I would still use a mesh bag...keeps them producing. Elm trees are good...good vid
Thank you for that video I was amazed by how much I learned from that . I am 59 and I have not seen them in our stores near. Why is that. I will start watching them. Can you show a video of the kinds are name them for me that would be in Georgia please. Robin Jones
Haters... I use a turkey or ham plastic mesh bag. Use what you like. I found a big bunch one time but they grew in a sand bar... had to toss the whole batch because of sand in them.
I went out looking yesterday in some areas that I have found them here in the eastern part of the state, but nothing yet. Hope to get out again today to check another area that has produced in the past.
Looks like you got yourself a good honey hole. I've had some luck early this year. My early spot is full of privet, young Elms and decent ground cover.
I use plastic bags too the only problem is briars. I was hunting once and tied the bag to my belt and somewhere along my walk I pulled out the bag and found it was torn and dropping shrooms. I had to backtrack for 30 min. or more looking. I have used the mesh potato sacks and they do ok and are sturdier.
I Really Miss Hunting For Mushrooms In the Spring up in IL. and IA. !!! But I Now Live in FL. and They Don’t Grow down here !!! At least I’ve Never Found Any Here !!!
Nice job! We have the same dirty stem end flinging technique while picking. Pop em off! Happy hunting. We are still waiting here in the northern states.
daaang.. thats was an early find.. in southwest MO but we have freezing temps most evenings. however the soil report is averaging 56 degrees. so I'm going out early too.. hope we get a long season due to this weather
@@TennesseeMtnMan Look them up online, almost every state conservation website has pictures and descriptions of edible shrooms, and non edible shrooms, times of the year when different ones come up. If they look like the ones Catman was finding They are Definitely edible.
I found the biggest morels that I’ve ever found right in the middle of a lady’s yard that I used to mow lol i wonder if they are up here in East Tennessee
respect your honesty about the plastic bag "i alaways got one layiing around so thats what I end up using" yea man heck yea. I just got a mesh bag but who alaways got a mesh bag with them??
Same for us in northwestern Missouri, although I moved to southern Kansas a few years back, and have been trying like hell to find some honey holes. No dice so far. I've got a couple new spots scouted that apparently had morels in years past, so I'm hoping to find success this year!
What a haul !!! I really enjoy your vids man. I especially enjoyed the latest Bowfishing vid. That was a porker of a fish. Congrats on that as well. Can’t wait to watch more. Be safe.
South facing hillside with fallen trees in the timber was the honey hole in No Central Illinois but about a month later in year. Also some warm humid weather was the trigger.
Some Great Eats rite der Youngman! We got a while befer we can git'em here in Michigan, startin to find a few Whitetail sheds though! Keep them vidja's comin!
nice pull. the smaller the better tasting. like any living thing we eat!!! and forget the mesh bag thing. theyre not even throwing spores off at the stage youre picking them, and the mesh bag will shred your morels if your out for hours piling them up in the bag.
Its too early where I am in Indiana but you can see the soil temp maps are about right up until Louisville and it just cuts off there and is lower temps above said line. This is definitely going to be the year they pop up earlier.
Here in Ohio I've found blacks March 21st the earliest ever for me please mushroom Gods be good this yr yummy and yummy thanks for video catman gets me fired up
I found my first morels of the year on March 4, here in SE Tn. Went out yesterday, March 11 and got another batch. I felt like they were about 2-3 weeks early this year.
Seems like everybody who hunts for shrooms has their own "Lore" about them. I've got a nice patch of the greys down near the river edge that always produced well, then one year they just stopped coming up for no reason. I need to get back down there and see if they came back. Some fine eating little greys go great with wild turkey breast!
I would love to taste these. They do not grow in my area. I have been told the only mushrooms that grow around my house are ones you cannot eat if you have kids. Catman, if you want to come hunt some turkeys on the Georgia coast hit me up.
I live in SE Mo. and you would be suprised how early these tasty little buggers will pop up. My uncle has found red shrooms popping up through the snow before.
Great find! But the purpose of using a mesh bag is so that the spores fall out every where you walk through out the woods. Try dipping them in a creek as you walk as well with a mesh bag.
It has been the strangest/warmest winter ever in Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky. I don't think we had snow one time in all of February. Curious how that impacts our morel season.
Morals don't get bigger...there size depends on how big the droplet of water is when it hit the spore...after they are fully open they start getting bug in them and being to rot...so pick them all or they will be gone in a couple days...they grays come first...the blonds come in warmer temperatures. Blacks are right behind the grays and the reds are higher elevation...about late may...
I don't feel like mesh bags do anything I would never use one they shred your mushrooms I collect my mushrooms into large bags and then I take them into my car and put them in boxes I sell them in boxes that people can fit in the refrigerator
I have hunted those for 40 years and never ate one. I always saved them all for my mom and dad for mother's day. They are gone now and I have had 10 years of tasting why they loved them so much. Thank you for sharing your video.
I did the same for my mother. She pasted this last Thanksgiving. Will be a hard spring hunt
RIP 💐
I am 60 years old N W Missouri. I have found yellows gray white blacks and red in the spring button tops. All side by side. Ground temp,moisture and wind seems to make a difference. I havedound them in plowed fields 100 yards from trees elms pine spruce even cotton woods. Osage orange. Clusters singles. I have found grays next to yellows where grays were beer bottle size and yellows didn't get over 3 inches talk. Along creeks where I have picked 3 to 5 pounds daily in the same spot. In my yard 8 10 inches tall in the afternoon where u cut the grass that morning. Just got to look is all
My first year hunting morel's in Oklahoma was AMAZING. It would be nothing to find over 250 in one hunt. 450 plus was our best day ever. Always in the same areas. Never 8 hours worth. over time, 3 or 4 years later, other people started hunting the land, we seldom ever go there anymore. A friend of ours has just a pinch of property and the morels grow in his front yard literally! He doesn't eat them (WHAT!!!) GIANT ones grow in a few spots, huge monsters! upwards of 9 inches. We get more than enough morels to last us and share with our son on his small patch of land (it. is. insane.) We never pick every single one we see. They are such a blessing for us to enjoy and we never have picked every single one we have seen either. The nice thing about our friends place is we don't have to worry about the wild hogs rooting or coming through. We have been blessed to avoid it but we have seen their destruction in the woods/forest. Thank you for your video!!
I also found my earliest Morels this year on March 5th. In Charlotte, NC. My previous earliest date was March 20th.They love Ash trees and privet here. Ended the season with 206 Morels. It was a strange season where they came up early, then stopped, then had a second flush about three weeks later.
Sweet probably not a good sign for finding them when turkey season opens my aunt and uncle live south of Nashville I plan on going down there to hunt turkeys can't wait I was hoping to find some mushrooms also.
Still snow in ground, melt little yesterday,hope I can go and find this yr .
I use just a stick to help me focus where my eyes are looking .helps me
Found seven small grays today. April 4th in east central KY. Earliest I have found them here. Hope this is a good sign.
Spring has hit really early here in Central Texas . The bluebonnets are already coming up , and the Mesquite trees are already leafing out ....
I'm in Central Texas as well. Have you seen anything popping up yet. I've only found deer sheds
@@AKFF320 I have no idea . I live in Cedar Park and , everything has been destroyed by developers , and I'm not able to access land with any frequency . But I don't remember ever finding morels here , doesn't mean there are not any .....
Nice haul! Buried in snow here... still 2 months away in MN
Crazy how once you see one, your brain has the image now, and then boom... you're surrounded by them
I call it morel vision
This happens to me with everything I forage. I see it once, and I’ll see it everywhere. I never find stuff when I’m looking for it though lol at least not until I’ve found it once before
WOW mushrooms March 1st??? looks like a good season... hope they start popping here in Iowa...I would still use a mesh bag...keeps them producing. Elm trees are good...good vid
Thank you for that video I was amazed by how much I learned from that . I am 59 and I have not seen them in our stores near. Why is that. I will start watching them. Can you show a video of the kinds are name them for me that would be in Georgia please.
Robin Jones
We still have snow. Here Idaho on the ground.😢
Haters... I use a turkey or ham plastic mesh bag. Use what you like.
I found a big bunch one time but they grew in a sand bar... had to toss the whole batch because of sand in them.
I went out looking yesterday in some areas that I have found them here in the eastern part of the state, but nothing yet. Hope to get out again today to check another area that has produced in the past.
They are starting up in West Virginia now 😜🥰🥰
Great job! You really know how to find em! Catch you a couple bass out of your pond or a creek and you’ll have a fine meal!
Out of all the delicious fish you can catch in TN you chose bass....
@@huntersims3588 Catman likes to catch and cook a ditch pickle! He did it in a video a couple years back. Search Catman Outdoors ditch pickle sandwich
I like to go to the dollar store and get a laundry bag that is for delicates. they are mesh and have a zipper on them.
Bro me too!! Nice!!!
Same here and I am just finding them in west TN in one spot and none in the other
Looks like you got yourself a good honey hole. I've had some luck early this year. My early spot is full of privet, young Elms and decent ground cover.
Almost a month early for here in west central Missouri, but you've got my mouth watering ! Congrats
Mesh bags really help to do less dmg and keep air flow.. also drop spores as you walk.
Blah blah blah....nothing like beating a dad cat huh Karen? Hush
None in Southeast Oklahoma yet...They're hard to find too many pine...but down 8n the old hardwoods it's still too wet....
Try out a steel feed pail from a feed store for your shrooms. No ripped bag. No damage to shrooms from whippersnappers.
Making my mouth water
I use plastic bags too the only problem is briars. I was hunting once and tied the bag to my belt and somewhere along my walk I pulled out the bag and found it was torn and dropping shrooms. I had to backtrack for 30 min. or more looking. I have used the mesh potato sacks and they do ok and are sturdier.
Where are you located, and do you know what the soil temperature is where you hsve found the most this season. Thanks
I'm in Wisconsin have 2 months to go before mushroom season. Your video was making my mouth water. Thanks Catman
Hopefully we can get a better rainfall than last year,
Same in the U,P can't wait. yummy.
Great find for the first time this year!
What state are you hunting in ? Im in central va
I Really Miss Hunting For Mushrooms In the Spring up in IL. and IA. !!! But I Now Live in FL. and They Don’t Grow down here !!! At least I’ve Never Found Any Here !!!
Man, I really need a day of just walking and relaxing looking for some shrooms.
Love the shrooms
I found 2 in Kentucky last year while turkey hunting.. Fried them at the truck.. Was wishing I had found more!
Yes sir we thanks ya for the heads up!
We have 18” of snow . No morels until April or may. Wisconsin
Nice job! We have the same dirty stem end flinging technique while picking. Pop em off! Happy hunting. We are still waiting here in the northern states.
I had the same thing happened to the place I was picking mushrooms.but I have a few more places to go to get them early.
Thanks a lot for making me hungry. Ours will not come up until a few more weeks.
Do no other animals eat them? I've never looked for them but I hear they are good to eat.
Yes deer will eat them.
Turkey
Squirrels get them quick
Southern Illinois earliest I've found any was 20th of March. But they're always small blacks that early here.
daaang.. thats was an early find.. in southwest MO but we have freezing temps most evenings. however the soil report is averaging 56 degrees. so I'm going out early too.. hope we get a long season due to this weather
Where I'm at if I find a few early and it cools back off then when they're back it's a short season it seems
You have the goodies.
I've been waiting its such an early spring thanks man!
I've found thousands around elms. That's weird,lol. Elms my 2nd best kind of tree to find em around.
I live in bc canada pick morels in my back yard can't wait still two feet snow on ground very envious
Would like to see a video from U on tree identification in ur area and show the leafs 🍃 or leaves 🍃 🤔 that corresponds with that tree 🌳 !! :)
A video of a clean and cook of these would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Catman
Please show us how you fix them to eat. I’ve seen them but was too chicken to try one. Didn’t want to eat something poisonous. Lol.
He has a video of him cooking them
@@TennesseeMtnMan Look them up online, almost every state conservation website has pictures and descriptions of edible shrooms, and non edible shrooms, times of the year when different ones come up. If they look like the ones Catman was finding They are Definitely edible.
He has one a few years ago....I'm pretty sure.
Cut them in half. Soak them in salt water to get all the bugs out of them and roll them in your favorite flour mixture and fry in a skillet.
It's an early spring in my area as well.
I found the biggest morels that I’ve ever found right in the middle of a lady’s yard that I used to mow lol i wonder if they are up here in East Tennessee
respect your honesty about the plastic bag "i alaways got one layiing around so thats what I end up using" yea man heck yea. I just got a mesh bag but who alaways got a mesh bag with them??
Those elm are what we look for in Iowa/Wisconsin. Chinese Elm are a go to
Same for us in northwestern Missouri, although I moved to southern Kansas a few years back, and have been trying like hell to find some honey holes. No dice so far. I've got a couple new spots scouted that apparently had morels in years past, so I'm hoping to find success this year!
What a haul !!! I really enjoy your vids man. I especially enjoyed the latest Bowfishing vid. That was a porker of a fish. Congrats on that as well. Can’t wait to watch more. Be safe.
You have a great mushroom spot!
Nice man. Freshies! Hope you find a truckload.
South facing hillside with fallen trees in the timber was the honey hole in No Central Illinois but about a month later in year. Also some warm humid weather was the trigger.
wierd we have 6 inches of snow here in MN still as of april1st.
Wow that is early! Might be early here in Virginia, will have to keep eyes open!
That was quite a haul of good eats!
Like self sustaining videos. Deer hunting means loin chops, great chili and making venison jerky is a must
Some Great Eats rite der Youngman! We got a while befer we can git'em here in Michigan, startin to find a few Whitetail sheds though! Keep them vidja's comin!
I found them in 1998 in Arkansas on February 24th found all the way through end of April that year
Man...March 1st?? That's crazy. Time for me to hit my spots and see if I can find any myself.
Wow I'm surprised they're already in. Its cold again now but I may need to get out and start looking for em. Thanks for sharing
Nice video. I have a few spots in my woods. One spot in my yard.
I'm in centerville,guess I'll be heading out early this year,ran into you at grill Billy's one time in fairview for lunch,keep up the good videos
Buncha old timers flip out seeing those bags. They use the mesh bags, so the spores from the shrooms you carry spread, and seed for next year
nice pull. the smaller the better tasting. like any living thing we eat!!! and forget the mesh bag thing. theyre not even throwing spores off at the stage youre picking them, and the mesh bag will shred your morels if your out for hours piling them up in the bag.
Mesh bags are hard on mushrooms.
i love how you sneak up on them, i do too
Its too early where I am in Indiana but you can see the soil temp maps are about right up until Louisville and it just cuts off there and is lower temps above said line. This is definitely going to be the year they pop up earlier.
Here in Ohio I've found blacks March 21st the earliest ever for me please mushroom Gods be good this yr yummy and yummy thanks for video catman gets me fired up
Best eating mushrooms .. they're the gold of all wild mushrooms...hahaha
The one mushroom I am hunting this year…..awesome!! 😊
Hey dude…take your scammer crap someplace else….
I found my first morels of the year on March 4, here in SE Tn. Went out yesterday, March 11 and got another batch. I felt like they were about 2-3 weeks early this year.
Where in SE, TN?
I ain't had any luck out here. This weather has been insane
I'm in SE Tennessee, wasn't sure time to hunt but Let's Go!!
I love hidden picture games so I’d probably do great
Thats awesome buddy, I went and looked today in my spot, I didn't see any yet. But I know it'll be any day
Wow, now I've got the fever!
Man that is a haul for March 1 or any time. You are blessed brother!
Think they're up in indiana.
Like your videos more. Maple syruping gives you something to do this time of year. I produce about one gallon a year. Cool hobby and it's delicious
I can't imagine finding them that early in Iowa! That is totally awesome!
Seems like everybody who hunts for shrooms has their own "Lore" about them. I've got a nice patch of the greys down near the river edge that always produced well, then one year they just stopped coming up for no reason. I need to get back down there and see if they came back. Some fine eating little greys go great with wild turkey breast!
I would love to taste these. They do not grow in my area. I have been told the only mushrooms that grow around my house are ones you cannot eat if you have kids. Catman, if you want to come hunt some turkeys on the Georgia coast hit me up.
Nice, but I haven't ate morels But they are yummy, delicious and nutritious
Try making up a mixture of cream cheese/bacon bits and jalapeños, stuff the caps and deep fry. Another level of goodness with morels.
Went looking to. We live in middle mo. But I don’t think it’s Ben warm enough here yet. Maybe in a week or two .
I live in SE Mo. and you would be suprised how early these tasty little buggers will pop up. My uncle has found red shrooms popping up through the snow before.
Great find! But the purpose of using a mesh bag is so that the spores fall out every where you walk through out the woods. Try dipping them in a creek as you walk as well with a mesh bag.
Give email?
Nice haul. I'm in Michigan, we have another month before the yellows come up. What state do you live in?
Catman... please show us how to prepare and cook them!!!
It has been the strangest/warmest winter ever in Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky. I don't think we had snow one time in all of February. Curious how that impacts our morel season.
I think we're still a few weeks away at least. Cincinnati area here ..
Lucky!!! It's still goin cold warm cold out in pnw.
looking in dayton this weekend
Quite a long time for Mn yet !!!
Got um in the low river areas as of now
I’m in Weakley County. What features are you looking for?
Morals don't get bigger...there size depends on how big the droplet of water is when it hit the spore...after they are fully open they start getting bug in them and being to rot...so pick them all or they will be gone in a couple days...they grays come first...the blonds come in warmer temperatures. Blacks are right behind the grays and the reds are higher elevation...about late may...
Baked venison steak in creamy morel gravy. Yum
Where do you find these. I mean what are they around the most
Nothing like that first morel harvest of the season!
I don't feel like mesh bags do anything I would never use one they shred your mushrooms I collect my mushrooms into large bags and then I take them into my car and put them in boxes I sell them in boxes that people can fit in the refrigerator
Your other morel pickers might be deer and bear
Are you going to get All of them?
So cool how you know all the trees. Thanks for your videos!