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| Trahn| | Tuscarora, PA | | February 08, 2010
Pine's have never really produced for me but you could find some. I don't think you would want to waste much time looking in pines. Bee your right the more snow the better I'd even like to see a quick thaw to get things rockin and rolling only time will tell. I've spent some time in the air the last couple days I got to get a plane for scouting morels maybe one of those two seater helicopter. |
| Rippers| | Pgh, Pa | | February 08, 2010
Chris/lisa... usually the last week of April... a few here and there as early as tax day. Then again, I learned that the calendar isn't always the best thing to go by last chanterelle season. Sounds like your hunting habbits would work pretty well in SWPA.
RE: Jimpsonseed... does anyone actually know what's up with him? I do wonder if he's okay. He pulled an Andy Dufresne on us..."He up and vanished like a fart in the wind." |
| ChrisandLisa| | Dillsburg, PA | | hitemstraight99(at)yahoo.com
February 08, 2010
Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome!! Basically in Indiana our honey holes were in two types of areas, old untreated apple orchards and woods with many dieing or dead elm trees. Lisa and I had a wonderful season last year, we strated finding them the second week of April through the third week of May we found 988 greys, yellows, blacks & pecker heads. One of the old orchards we hunt for like 2 weeks there was an average of 40 to 50 a day popping up it was awesome. It sounds like poplers are good here. what about pine tree groves? I used to hunt up in Michigan near Cadillac and had luck in the pines. I think the biggest adjustment here for me will be when to go the weather patterns here are really different than in Indiana. Usually if the Lilacs are blooming, the dandelines are popping and the may apples are knee high the shrooms are in full swing. Thanks again to everyone hopefully Lisa and I will get to meet some of you!! |
| BEE| | | | February 08, 2010
So much snow, so many plows!!! Gotta love it!!!!!
I kinda miss Jimpsonseed. Wonder if he had to use his snow blower, finally, after all these years. Maybe he went back to Ohio where the pickings are easy. |
| CJ| | | | February 06, 2010
Chris and Lisa: welcome to PA. I've driven through Indiana and can imagine how you find morels there from what I've seen. I would wager that you pick in areas where you find many morels around few trees. Here it can be a bit more tricky and many times you end up picking a few around many different kinds of trees over several miles....sorta like Trahn described. Don't get me wrong...there are honey holes here too, but I've come to find morel hunting in PA to be the attempt to find few microcliamtes with the right conditions in a sea of poor morel habitat overall. |
| Trahn| | Tuscarora, PA | | February 02, 2010
Chris and Lisa I think you will find PA to be quite different. Find Tulip poplars for blacks and TP morels. You'll also want to find ash, apple and some elm for big yellows. It would help if you start looking now. Good luck and welcome to PA. |
| ChrisandLisa| | Dillsburg, PA | | hitemstraight99(at)yahoo.com
February 01, 2010
Hello all, I wanted to get an early start on introducing ourselves, we have been members on this board for years just in Indiana. We moved to PA in December. So far the word I have gotten (what little it is) is that there are morels in this area. We would like to get to know some local hunters and learn what is different hunting here vs Indiana. We look forward to meeting other folks who love to hunt like we love to hunt!! |
| Rippers| | | | January 29, 2010
Bow... it's not exactly fair to judge unless eaten fresh. I do agree though... morels are way better than chants IMO |
| Bowhunter| | | | January 25, 2010
I ate some chants and morels yesterday. This was the first time I had chants. They do not come close tastewise to the morels. Both were sauteed in butter. I was expecting more from the chants but I was disappointed. Did I do something wrong? Based on this experience, I don't think I will pick them in the future. |
| Mushroom Man| | Pgh, Shock | | January 24, 2010
No Favre Super Bowl. Good luck Saints. MM |
| BEE| | | | January 17, 2010
Rippers: I don't remember talking in depth about deep freezes. We talked more about moisture, warmth, humidity and hydraulics.
Wow MM, you wrote a book!!!!! How true.
BEE |
| Señor Mushroom Man| | Madrid, Spain | | January 17, 2010
I found this on Wikapedia about wild mushroom picking and thought it was quite fitting. Its all opinion but true in every way.
Much like secret fishing spots, mushroom picking areas (which vary from season to season) are only shared with close friends. As a matter of fact, friendships are known to have been broken on account of picking spots being revealed by unreliable partners or a picker being spotted on a week day at a location disclosed to him by a senior picker. In order to understand what is considered appropriate etiquette one should know, as in the previous case, that an amateur picker will not become the primary hunter in an area he has recently been introduced to by a senior picker.[original research?]
Many such unspoken rules apply to the socially-complex art of mushroom picking and thus, for example, a senior picker expects that an amateur will not scout an area he has been revealed to be prolific unless the amateur picker is accompanied by his senior counterpart. Spaniards often hunt for mushrooms, as well as, for example, snails or wild asparagus over the weekend. These activities are enjoyed among extended family or also, especially among males, as a way for friends to bond and enjoy nature. Sometimes Spaniards will even plan a short field trip over the week in order to go mushroom hunting to a nearby location and have brunch (almuerzo) at a town or city of special gastronomic interest. The social nature of this activity can be realized by the fact that mushroom pickers, like their snail- and asparagus-hunting counterparts, are often joined by amateurs in order to, not as much pick mushrooms, but rather share a nice meal with good friends in the outdoors..... cont below
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| Mushroom Man | | Madrid, Spain | | January 17, 2010
Continued.....
As soon as the first showers of rain arrive in the Fall, pickers start to discretely scout areas they know to be prolific in mushrooms while keeping their ears open in the hope that some unknowing subject (an "incauto") will reveal valuable information regarding a picking location. Once again, it should be noted that gathering intelligence in order to find out a secret source of mushrooms is not considered inappropriate among Spaniards since it is part of the innate sense of competition that permeates Spanish society. The intelligence to be gathered by a fellow picker (specially one who hasn't had as much success as he would expect) may come from the most unexpected sources. For example a picker's wife could be talking about her friends and how one of them was running late at a Seville-style dance class ("clase de sevillanas") since her husband had taken her car to go to Segovia. The picker, aware of his wife's friend's husband being a picker, may well decide to go out to a bar that night and discretely inquire about the suspect picker's activities in order to see if he shows reluctance to mention his trip to Segovia. Leads like this one will then be used to further investigate until a new source of mushrooms is eventually identified. It should be noted, however, that senior pickers will often spread false leads in order to keep their counterparts second-guessing and expose their lack of investigative skills.
Becoming the first successful picker of the season is a goal of any social picker. Spaniards often present close friends with mushrooms after a successful undertaking and the word spreads quickly that that picker is "hot." Mushroom-picking-related conversations often arise in the local bars as a way for Spaniards to taunt one another and enjoy a laugh. As the season progresses, pickers engage in an unspoken competition not as much in search of a prize or recognition, but as a means of displaying one's ability to outsmart everybody else (a well-documented Spanish past-time.)
From time to time, a friend or group of friends will devise (this may also occur in the heat of a conversation without any previous arrangement) an elaborate prank to invite an amateur over to join with them in their next mushroom picking trip. The joke played on the unknowing subject (another "incauto") may vary from getting him lost in the woods to making him believe there is a wolf or some other dangerous animal chasing his steps. Like any other anecdote-rich story, the prank will be retold countless times in the local bars providing Spaniards with even more enjoyment. Eventually, mushrooms cease to spring as Winter sets in and Spaniards forget all about mushroom picking until next season and move on to do something else to entertain themselves and, as some pickers often say jokingly "look for another excuse to have permission from their wives to spend time away from them."
Im not a "Spaniard" But the shoe fits MM
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| Mushroom Man| | PGH, Pa | | January 17, 2010
My Dad just made up a 4 gal pot of chile ingreadients include but not limited to, wild Hens store bought crimini, and shitaki and lots of deer meat. I can't wait to get into it he delivers on Monday......................... Bon Appétit MM |
| Mushroom Man| | PGH, Pa | | January 14, 2010
Save your dried mushrooms eat them with your deer steak. MM |
| Mushroom Man| | Pgh, Pa | | January 09, 2010
Here is a story I ran across on the internet about a guy and a 240 yr old American elm named Herbie..............MM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34765157/?GT1=43001 |
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Save a mushroom, eat a deer. |
| Rippers| | | | January 08, 2010
BEE, your point about the depth of the burn makes sense... refresh my memory: did we discuss the depth of a freeze in the past? It would probably yield a similar reaction... at least, in areas where such a freeze is not common |
| Trahn| | | | January 05, 2010
I've looked in burns in PA many times for morels but never found one. Now most of the areas weren't what you would call morel woods but the area's they find them in the burns out west aren't what you'd call morel woods either. Bee I think your right about those high temps. some of the pics I've seen the standing tree's burn to the point where they fall over which takes a hot long burn. |
| BEE| | | | January 05, 2010
MM: I had that same question about burn sites some years back. I communicated quite often with Mike Mosher, a professional morel hunter from north of Alberta Canada. He and his family would spend most of the Spring and early summer picking in burn areas. Business got so good he bought a sea plane just to land where not many people could reach otherwise. After 2 years of not so good seasons, he went "bust", lost most of his money and I've lost touch with him. Anyway..........
He explained to me that down here we really don't have the type burns it takes to produce morels. He claimed you need fires that can't be reached by anyone to extinguish. The burns up his way burn themselves out and they burn hot and deep. The soil is also loamy peat that burns a long, long time. (I think that's how he explained it). So I just don't think we have the fires that would produce morels. I'm sure someone has other opinions, but it's the opinion I have about it. Make sense??
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| Mushroom Man| | PGH, Pa | | January 05, 2010
Hey Ripp that area should be good again this year considering that the trees were not all completely dead and there were still some living relatives in the woods. I still have your bad-ash walking stick to give back to you. I may do a little whittling job on it whilst I work at night. My winter time so far has consisted of hunting a couple days a week living in 2b and Allegheny Co. has its privilages when it comes to extended deer season. Found there to be two coyotes living in the woods near the house. Finally I have found the time to do some quad riding and found some areas round the house that may produce some morels in the spring, ash and elm areas. I got one deer this season a road kill go figure made the whole thing into two pretzle Jars of jerky yummy. sorry I have none left the stuff I make is real good and doesn't last long. I would like to bring up a subject that is really not discussed here. Burn sites being that we don't live in the expansive west but there are areas that do burn in Pa. If you check with you local fire dept. they may be able to give up some info to us mushroom hunters. I came to think of this while our cub scouts visited Fawn twp No 1. VFW has a brush truck that it sends out across the state to tackle forest fires ( think a hummer on steroids) it has a 2ft lift on it it looks indestructable. I was talking to the Chief and asked him if he could get a print version of the location of burned areas he said he probly could. but maybe there is a site on the internet as well or some info from the DCNR (holding my nose). Welp have fun ya'll stay warm .........MM |
| Claude Purdy| | Wayne, PA | | January 03, 2010
Hey Jayhawk4Life what part of kansas are you from? Used to live in Hutchinson myself. |
| Jayhawk4Life| | Near Philadelphia, PA | | December 29, 2009
Found a few nice fall oyster mushrooms in a state park near Philly the day all the snow was melting. Went back the next morning and what was left had frozen from the night before. They were tasty though. I'm just up here visiting family for the holidays. Actually from Kansas. Hell froze over back home so it was a treat to find mushrooms elsewhere. |
| Rippers| | | | December 24, 2009
Pickin's... indeed that would be the barrier well. A good spot, but most were too far gone when we got to them. What shocks me is the fact that no one in that area picked them first. Huge dead elms in the open amongst very heavy foot traffic... if you were from that area it would be the first place you'd check- and people on this site post from that neighborhood... hehehaha! Oh "well"
Let me know when you plan to pass through... I'll be happy to join in or at least point ya in the right direction |
| Pickin's| | SC, PA | | December 24, 2009
Rippers, would that be the barrier well--->:) even if not that was a cool pic.
Planning a road trip for Morels out your way and some points beyond next spring.
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| Rippers| | | | December 23, 2009
MM... see you at the well in 4 months, now |
| BEE| | | | December 19, 2009
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Mushroom Man| | Pgh, Pa | | December 05, 2009
Only 5 months til morel season. MM |
| Mike| | jefferson co., PA | | November 27, 2009
I found a nice pile of fall oysters about 5 pounds off of a standing but dead maple. It was a nice find at this time of the year. |
| BEE| | | | November 20, 2009
I passed a large patch of fresh shaggy manes this morning. Amazing what warm weather and rain will produce, even this late in the season. |
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