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OHIO 2025 -- MOREL & SPRING MUSHROOM POSTS
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Walleye run is going on right now too. Make a day of it. River fish for spawning walleyes and find some blacks
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I realize that I may have highlighted kind of a typo. But no, leaving some won't make any difference next year. It can make a difference in the next few days. They don't flush at full size. People, puppies and anything else I can think of aren't born, hatched, or sprouted at full size.
Check my avatar. The biggest morel in the picture I found 3 days earlier at about half that size. It was getting late in the season when the "bigfoot" morels start showing up. I spotted it in a place known to me that had produced before. I saw it down in some grass that was taller than the morel. It just seemed to glow golden in there. I put my fingertips to it, and it felt so cool and moist, that I decided to leave it and see what would happen. I went back three days later, and it had doubled in size. And the second largest morel in the picture had flushed right alongside! It was getting pretty warm by then, so I decided to take them both. I think that was my last harvest for that year. It was late May.
And it seemed like overnight, every forsythia in the area decided to bloom! Suddenly there is yellow everywhere! Another sign ticked off. No dandelions yet, considering this up and down weather. And I haven't heard a lawnmower yet, but I am now convinced that the first one I hear will be mine! My grass, and the neighbors, needs cut and I take care of the neighbor lady's grass. But we have a week of rainy weather, "unsettled" weather, ahead of us, so by the time I'm able to get at it, I'm liable to be cutting hayfield! HOO-RAH!
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What kind of trees are in your spot? What’s the elevation like? I have never found blacks.
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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.
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!
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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.
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Honestly, sponge will grow for several weeks or more before getting to mature size.
I've marked them first week of April and picked at end of April or 1st week of May.
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What river? The Maumee? Have seen videos of people fishing that river n was like damn that must be one hell of run. One day will head to it n give it a whirl. That river goes through fort Wayne Indiana which is about an hour north of me, wonder if the eyes make it that far or not lol
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The Maumee River does have a big river run each year but no I’m talking about the Sandusky River in Fremont ohio. It has the same spawning run each season and yes it’s major fish time and people are ass to elbows close to each other wading the river haha
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As for how far the walleyes run to spawn in the rivers it’s a crapshoot. Odnr says they swim upriver until the first dam and lay there eggs. But with dams being moved throughout the rivers anymore they are going further and further upstream. They tore down the dam in Fremont so now odnr says there going all the way to tiffin as its next dam in riverbed. Most fish still caught around Fremont though but fish are moving toward tiffin.
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Just curious, NE or NW Ohio?
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I would consider north central. +/- 20 mins from cedar point. Get Toledo news channels 🤷‍♂️
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Yea the videos I've watched that's how they were, people just lined up everywhere
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As someone who lives in NE Ohio, (Youngstown), I consider your area to be NW Ohio. I divide our state into quadrants. NW, NE, SW, and SE. The north/south dividing line is I-70, and the east/west dividing line is basically a north/ south line drawn through Columbus.
I think you guys suffer much less "lake effect" than we do, considering how the weather generally moves. This retards our growing season getting started. This is referenced quite often as far as the wine grape industry east of Cleveland is concerned.
We had a lot of rain and lightning yesterday. With the injection of Nitrogen into the soil, I expect things to start greening up quickly around here. And that seems to be happening in neighborhood yards! It does not appear to be happening in our local woods yet. I took a short walk through a nearby woods that is my "Chant" spot. There does not seem to be much happening there.
Or, maybe I should say that there is not much "visible" happening there. Of course there is stuff going on underground. But the appearance of the understory of the woods was a variegated brown! The brown of fallen leaves. There were no signs of new growth yet. No may apples, no trilliums, no bear corn, no nothing.
But I really shouldn't expect anything more, and that's kind of my point here. This seems to be turning out to be a fairly normal year, at least so far. Heck, we have extended forecasts calling for sub freezing temps and snow about 4-5 days out!
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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.
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Thanks! I figured you were in that area because up here in extreme NE Ohio it’s just starting to show some signs of spring.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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