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Oklahoma Message Board 2019

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#1 ·
Happy New Year everyone! I'm getting spring fever already!! We are just a couple months away from starting the search! Let's wake up the board!
 
#255 ·
Found yet another mother lode today totaling 500+ morels weighting 18.8 pounds - total for the season exceeding 3500 morels and most likely > 100 pounds; What a year !
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Wow, simply WOW! Although I've never had that mush (yeh I spelled it wrong, but it fit) success, I did sell a couple pounds after relatives, neighbors and my freezer was full for some Gas Money. Now I gotta wait another month until things Pop here in Wisconsin. Keeper going!!!!
 
#259 ·
Wow! Heard about the killing that's being made in OK on another page and just had to come look! You guys got my mouth watering! I'm up here in NE Ohio so still waiting, but this Spring is setting up as ideal as I've ever seen it! This is the first "real" Spring we've had in quite some time. Lately it seems like we only have two seasons, Winter and Summer. Seeing all that success so far south of us has me itching to get out.
 
#261 ·
Went for a quick 45 min-1h hunt in a new spot and brought a newbie along. Lo and behold we found these 220 beauties [weighting near 8.75-9 lbs], most very fresh under thick cedar patches. What a year ! View attachment 14878
Man, thats a Grey Fatty in there!!! Do I see a Double-Header Yeller in there too? Front row, center. Wait, cant tell might be a Grey..
 
#262 ·
never get tired of looking at cedar morels. They set the standard in my opinion. Any time left in the Cedar season after the cold rain Iwonagain? I would love to take a 2 day road trip and pick a few if there are enough good ones after that soaker you guys got.
 
#265 ·
thanks Iwonagain, believe it or not I drove down to Ok. last sat. but stopped in a bad spot I guess to far north. I looked through cedars for a day and did not find a single one. Got to see a lot of Oklahoma though. Can Anyone beat a 800 mile road trip to get skunked? New record for me, although not one i want. I should have listened to my expert giving me advice and went another 100 miles south. Sooooo, maybe I will try again. Glutton for punishment. I have picked in the cedar before though and know how awesome it is. Keep rocking Oklahomans.
 
#268 ·
Yocham, I was up by
stillwater by the 2 lakes up there. No whining here, any day just looking for shrooms beats a day of work.. I just stopped short of where I should of gone, and I know better. So if I can get the mental fortitude up I'll be back. Hate to miss out on a super flush.
 
#276 ·
youwonagain, iwonagain. Any of you guys willing to give me a couple of counties or 4 to pick from. I am going to try another 800 mile plus road trip and maybe hit a bulls eye this time. My wife will think I am twice as crazy if I come back without morels for her to eat again. Funny seeing those small greys mixed in with those christmas tree ones.
 
#278 ·
KB, you must be a real dedicated morel addict! Being my first season I am just a novice, but I have been monitoring this board and two Oklahoma Morel pages on Facebook, and it appears that Oklahoma Co, Lincoln Co, and Logan Co are still producing very well. Also a fair amount of fresh ones being found in Potawatomie aka Pot Co and Cleveland Co. Looking at the rain totals, I wouldn't think anything north of Logan Co and west of I-35 would be as good as east of I-35, especially the further north you go. I would think that southern Payne County would be good as well, but I have no leads on public lands there aside from the lakes you already went to.

I have done some short hunts on very public areas in OK, Logan, and Cleveland Counties and found a few each time. However, 27 of the 30 pounds I've gotten so far was on the same patch of private ground in Lincoln County over 4 hunts in the last 9 days. I will say that Oklahoma and Lincoln Counties may have more publicly accessible land than Logan County, as far as what I'm familiar with anyway. If you're not worried about chemicals and such, I would think walking the railroad easements in OK, Logan, and Lincoln Counties would produce some mushrooms.

I am by no means a mushroom guide, but I'd be happy to point you towards some large tracts of accessible, non-park land owned by municipalities and such in OK County that I had planned to hunt before I found out that my private ground was so productive. When are you making your trip down here?
 
#279 ·
I think the season on my piece of private ground is coming to an end. I picked 8 pounds of new morels yesterday afternoon while mostly walking in my footsteps from the 5 pounds I picked Sunday, yet the quality/integrity of the morels I picked yesterday were much worse. Many had small spots of white mold and many had snail trails on them. I left a couple hundred those and others that were way too far gone.

Many that looked really good when I picked them were near garbage today. I noticed that the ones that rapidly deteriorated overnight (in brown paper sacks in fridge, no washing or soaking) were the ones with a rusty streak on the base of the stem up to the cap. What was left of my first haul from 10 days ago were still in perfect condition this morning when I put them in dehydrator, yet the "fresh" picks from yesterday turned terrible overnight. Anyone else have issues with the otherwise prime looking morels that have that rusty streak on the stem? If so, do you know what it is?
 
#283 ·
thanks Okie. Yes I am addicted and I usually do much better on my road trips, I actually had pretty good info. I missed the rain part though, and needed to drive another county or so south. My own fault. To be honest I just got back from another 400 plus mile long one down into S. Kansas and ended up with close to 3#. I may turn around and come back and see you guys tomorrow. Thanks for the information. That brown streak just means they have been up to long and are degrading. Probably to much rain, believe it or not. Sounds like you have had some fun in the cedar. Outside of mountain burns and cut cottonwood timbers nothing compares to what those babies kick out. Yeah any suggestions would be great. Just don't get your fellow Oklahomans to mad at you for putting names on the this board. Eyes are watching.
 
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