Saw this on a FB group, Knox county found today

 

Hope everyone has a record year! IMO this season is going to be a good one. March morels again this year in northern ohio. Like clockwork. Picked 12 all about 2 1/2”. Left a lot of little ones around an inch. Also pulled 10+ dozen worms out of the ground in my backyard last night about 10:30. Could’ve filled the bucket if I wanted they were everywhere!

 

Sweet! I'm pumped! I been hunting morels for 3 years! Nothing found yet here stark county! I'm hoping for some info from veteran hunters! I have in the past always picked small morels! If I leave them hoping to get bigger next year, will they actually get bigger? Mature more? I get conflicting answers! Thanks in advance for the wisdom!

 

That's it! Packing up and moving to Fremont!

 

Walleye run is going on right now too. Make a day of it. River fish for spawning walleyes and find some blacks

 

Went out this morning before the torrential rains and lightening. Picked 24 more. A few with some decent size. Were to get a bunch of rain and storms next couple days. I’m going back to get more Friday!

 

What kind of trees are in your spot? What’s the elevation like? I have never found blacks.

 

I live in piqua Ohio is it too late for the morels or can we still find them

 

What kind of trees are in your spot? What’s the elevation like? I have never found blacks.

First of all, way to go G-man! And I could have the same question since I am in the same boat! I once read that if you want to find blacks, you have to forget everything you know about finding yellows.

I live in piqua Ohio is it too late for the morels or can we still find them

IIRC you're about on the same latitude as Dayton. You are nowhere near too late! In fact, you're just getting started. Get out there!

I live in NE Ohio, and with all the rain and lightning we got today, things are going to start greening up fast!

 

What kind of trees are in your spot? What’s the elevation like? I have never found blacks.

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What kind of trees are in your spot? What’s the elevation like? I have never found blacks.

i find my blacks around large poplar trees. Sandy loamy soil that sinks as you walk. When I see asparagus starting and scarlet cups in woods the blacks are going as well. Mid 40s ground temp is when they start but I will be picking blacks out of that same hole for 4 weeks and they still pop new when greys and yellows are starting in other areas of the woods.

 

Checked one of my newer spots, it’s still pretty early, may apples are just poking out of the ground at higher elevations. I was hoping to stumble across a black morel, but no luck. I don’t have any woods close to me with tulip poplar but these woods do have shag bark and bitternut hickory and black cherry which I have heard black morels could associate with. And if they are out, they may be too small for me to spot in the leaves, I’ll have to give it time for them to get bigger before I have a better chance of discovering a black morel spot.

 

24 more today. Rain and slugs doing a number on them. Picked 60 so far. Left about a dozen I seen today for next pickings

 

Yeah! And the weather is kind of heading the wrong way! We got more thunderstorms and buckets of rain again last night, and now they're predicting a real cold wave and possibility of some snow! That will slow everything down, except maybe my grass and the neighbors, which is growing like Topsy, and will probably be like cutting a hayfield by the time it stops raining long enough to get after it! And I just heard the beep, beep, beep on the TV to see that a flood warning has just been issued for the area!

Oh well. I'll take too slow over too fast, and too much rain over too little any day. Or should I say any year? Heck, I've never found a morel anywhere near this early, but have found them as late as May 23rd! But, I will NOT make the same mistake I made last year. I waited until I thought everything was "perfect". What I discovered was that perfection does not exist. I was late, way late! I got out when the bigfoot were coming up! I did manage one decent haul of those from a couple of my spots, but them it was over. My "season" lasted a week!

BTW, I don't know if you look at other state's pages, I do. On the current Indiana thread Wade has posted what looks like a Facebook posting of a big haul purportedly from Licking County, Ohio. That's just east of Columbus. Could that be the I-70 magic working again? IIRC, there's no dated receipt in the picture. I don't want to call anyone a liar, but isn't that kind of standard operating procedure? That's why my avatar features morels on the cover of that days newspaper. That's how I used to post pics.

But I can't post pics anymore. I have an older digital camera, a Nikon, and the software that came with it was compatible with up to Windows 8! I was running Win XP when I loaded that software. That machine is long gone, and I an now on a new machine running Win 11, and I can't download new pics to the computer. I can still post the old pics that I had already downloaded, but that's as far as it goes.

 

It will get below freezing for a couple of nights here in central Ohio with a chance of snow also, but I think it will be just a blip and not really affect the season any. After this cold snap the weather will even out with highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s for the foreseeable future which is perfect.

I don’t think I am going to have luck with blacks this year, but I am impatiently waiting for the first sign of yellows.

 

Out in woods now. Picking and leaving some. Have a total picture later

 

Good day for a hunt. 38 feels like 28 air temp 7am. Rain/sleet. Picked 23 more. Few bigger ones. Left about a dozen tiny guys. Plus whatever else I missed. Hit it again soon.

 

You’re killing it! Nice!

 

Looking Great, enjoy. 🤗

 

Black Morels Today - Central OH- Franklin County

Today now makes 12 years in a row for Black Morels in the same of spot: South facing bank of a e-w tributary creek to the Scioto River. I usually get 40 to 65 Morels. Today was early. I picked 11 and left 10-12 that were showing but small. It will be good for a couple more picks or one good one.

Maybe I'll fry some fish and have these as a side. It is officially beginning here.

My statistical, morel 1st find date is about April 15.

Have yourself some good Morel time in the woods. 😊 🌞

 

Black Morels Today - Central OH- Franklin County

Today now makes 12 years in a row for Black Morels in the same of spot: South facing bank of a e-w tributary creek to the Scioto River. I usually get 40 to 65 Morels. Today was early. I picked 11 and left 10-12 that were showing but small. It will be good for a couple more picks or one good one.


Maybe I'll fry some fish and have these as a side. It is officially beginning here.

My statistical, morel 1st find date is about April 15.

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Have yourself some good Morel time in the woods. 😊 🌞

What kind of trees do you find your blacks associating with or is more of good soil conditions?

 

Today's Black Morels - Tonight's Morel & Fried Fish dinner

Panko Breaded Fried Morels and Fried fish, homemade Tarter Sauce, green beans and some wine.

While breaded Fried Morels don't show up visually the best, they do satisfy the taste part of the equation.

Treat yourself, spend some time in the woods. 😊 🌞

 

Soothsayer: Excellent question. However, after getting Morels for 12 years now in this same spot, I don't pay any attention to the trees and as I'm trying to recall, I don't recall any particular one tree. Each year it's the same 65 ft section of creek bank that pops the Black Morels. I keep looking elsewhere along the creek, but nada. Interestingly, there's a lot of length to this creek and I've found the Blondes and Tulips also, ramps also, but no Blacks elsewhere long the creek.

This creek runs behind my house also, some distance away. So, perhaps instead of eating them i should make a slurry of my finds this year, spread them along the creek behind my house and see if I can encourage Black Morels to establish themselves behind my house, ha!

Best luck to all!

 

So what you’re saying is they are very picky 😆

Thanks for the insight!

 

Went this morning. Vehicle said 24 when I got there. Shrooms were “freeze dried” for me by Mother Nature. Frozen solid upon picking them. Ended up with 19 today. 102 for season. It’s supposed to be warmer here next several days should get better yet. 🤞🤞🤞🍄🍄‍🟫🙏🙏🙏

 

Hate to see that. Forget what year it was, maybe mid 2000's, but it's the only year I can remember picking frozen shrooms....It was after an extremely warm march, then a blast of low 20's for several nights. Ended up being a down year. Felt like those still under the leaves would be ok, but when it hits 20 deg. I'm not so sure ground temps and leaf litter come into play.

 

Woke up to another blanket of white this morning. Got up to 46 today so about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. It looks like we are finally going to work our way out of this cold funk we've been in. As far as I've been able to determine, the soil temps around here have not gotten warm enough to get the morels, or much of anything else, going in the woods. And Gutterman's pic of morels with what appear to be ramps and a couple of small may apples gives me more hope. No may apples in sight yet, and ramps are not that far along.

 

I am happy to say that against the odds I have lived to see another mushroom hunting season!!! Even terminal cancer won't keep me from the search lmao! I'm north central. Should I be out…???! It's bout week earlier than last year . I'm so excited!!!! Putting boots and another layer on and taking me a walk! I'm gonna hit it big this year! I have faith!

 

Go get 'em, Jetski! No snow today but enjoyed a relentlessly cloudy day that was colder than yesterday! Got all the way up to 41! Winter just doesn't want to leave us alone!

 

The forum is pretty quiet, I feel like southern ohio is probably barely poppin

 

I am actually seeing some decent hauls from some of the most southern counties and a few good hauls of young yellows out of Muskingum county believe it or not despite this cold snap.

 

Hit Shawnee couple days ago and came up empty handed. As good as it looks in the Bottoms, when you get up into the hills it still looks like it's not far enough along yet. I mostly hunt south central OH and any more, don't even bother til mid April. Peak is almost always last week of April.
If your new to hunting, that is your best opportunity.

 

I found my first ever black morel today north of Columbus, but I think it got stepped on by a turkey. I didn’t find any others around, but I will go back to this spot when it warms up more. I found it in an area with black cherry, dead ash, elms and maples in an area that was getting lots of light. I think it was associating with the black cherry which is a tree I have been keeping my eye out for blacks.

 

Looks like a half frees to me

 

Is that a black or a half free?

Also, enjoyed another gloomy, cloudy day that got all the way up to 47! So we are warming up!