The Secret to Finding HUNDREDS of Morel Mushrooms

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  • In this video, I am hunting for morel mushrooms in the Ozark mountains of Missouri. I have a VERY successful mushroom hunt! I reveal the secrets of where and how to maximize your mushroom hunting success! Mushrooms prefer certain environments and generally grow around certain types of trees and underbrush. If you want to learn theses secrets, this is the video for you!
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  • @BazookaIke
    @BazookaIke 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    In NW Wisconsin we try to find dead elm trees but unfortunately, most elm trees have been dead and gone for a long time due to Dutch elm disease.
    I have had the most luck around ash trees for morels. Ash are very easy trees to find and fairly abundant around here.

  • @kevinsloan3019
    @kevinsloan3019 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ya got me in the mood now gona go check my spots this evening thanks for taking us along

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @kevinsloan3019
      @kevinsloan3019 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nothing yet but I'm keeping my eye on em getting rain today so won't be long

  • @CumberlandOutdoorsman
    @CumberlandOutdoorsman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's incredible! Wish I coulda been there with you and find that many. Morels are so much sought after, I know some of the viewers are envious, ....like me!

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was an amazing day for me, that I definitely did not take for granted! Those days are few and far between!

  • @Jenda-ld8dj
    @Jenda-ld8dj ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Cool. We used to do this every spring. We called them "leprechaun peckers".

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol!

    • @blacknatsu6623
      @blacknatsu6623 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahahahahah!

    • @timk5028
      @timk5028 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've heard them called Land Fish too. Don't know why. They taste nothing like fish. 😅

    • @timk5028
      @timk5028 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm in NE Indiana and eagerly awaiting the first signs. Happy hunting, folks.

  • @WillieMakeit
    @WillieMakeit 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice. Crappie fishing shed and morel hunting. Live your life to the fullest. Great trip

  • @debhawpetoss2544
    @debhawpetoss2544 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wisconsin and Minnesota morrels grow by fallen elm trees I look for deer scat deer love morrels as well and I noticed you put them in a brown paper bag,my mom taught me to bring a bag that oranges come in they have itty bitty holes in them and you shake the bag gently releasing spores for next year's shake ,the bag by where you picked them....

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! I usually use a mesh bag, but forgot it at home!

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nice! There's a lot of debate on the benefits of mesh bags. Use your preference. Thanks for watching!

  • @jordanleeroutdoors3060
    @jordanleeroutdoors3060 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice haul!

  • @sonofgib5576
    @sonofgib5576 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Found two on April 25th in Lincoln County, MO. Dried up. Usually find a couple grocery bags full but not this year. Need rain bad

  • @jsump69
    @jsump69 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All I can say is it must be nice! I'm in north west Missouri! And I see all these other people finding a ton of them! , Not me! Lol I just can't seem to find the. In this area! I moved here from about an hour south South east! Not matter the kind of tree or whatever! But I also need to say I've had to hunt on mostly public land rather than private land I was used to! So this weekend I'm getting on the boat to get down the river a ways to where it seems so remote to where no one else has been so far!! But anyways good job to the author of this video! And good luck to anyone else that's looking or coming up short this season like I am!

  • @alexkaragiannis7078
    @alexkaragiannis7078 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wish we had this kind of sycamore patches here but morels if you find 5-10 in a patch you happy in Ontario 😢.that was a great haul my man loved watching it 🎉

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much! I'll trade you, for the walleye fishing y'all have up that way 😉

    • @alexkaragiannis7078
      @alexkaragiannis7078 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hahahaha I bet you would 😂

  • @WojySmokes
    @WojySmokes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video

  • @georgiaware3248
    @georgiaware3248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank You

  • @notsurewhatscookin8691
    @notsurewhatscookin8691 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome video 👍

  • @janeenclark8728
    @janeenclark8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ready in Michigan! Sure hope it’s a banner year! Fingers crossed! Wish me Luck Good Buddy! Thanks

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good luck! I hope you make piles!

    • @momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786
      @momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wish you luck from Ottawa County Michigan. Plz do me the same. So far it seems to be shaping up for a good season. But, it’s a delicate balance of water, temps and the right trees. #MushroomFantasies2024

    • @Bubba-wx7lp
      @Bubba-wx7lp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Washtenaw County,getting lot last weekend.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Bubba-wx7lp I'm always jealous, down here in Missouri, when our season is wrapping up and y'all are just kicking off!

    • @user-hs5me4dw4n
      @user-hs5me4dw4n หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believe so...The weather looks to be shaping up for a banner year....48 to 52 lows and lower to mid 70s day time highs.😉😀

  • @ranfam99
    @ranfam99 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How many hours were you out that day? Thank you for a good video. I will look for sycamore groves!

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว

      That was about a 3 hour walk I believe! Good luck! Don't give up if they're not in the first grove you explore. Keep going!

  • @chadhall5921
    @chadhall5921 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good little haul! Can you say what state you’re in?

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely! This was filmed in Missouri! Thanks for checking it out!

  • @jaywhite6740
    @jaywhite6740 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are correct about sycamores being a consistent tree for morel’s plus there easy to spot

  • @nightcrawler1123
    @nightcrawler1123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    allsome viedo

  • @marysandfer6345
    @marysandfer6345 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been watching a lot of videos and most go crazy over slippery elms and tulips. These vids are from all over US. So in Missouri is the sycamore tree what I should be looking for?

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sycamore trees definitely offer some good picking, generally! But really any dead rotting tree can be excellent. Ash trees are usually great too.
      Thanks for watching!

  • @geraldbelles7968
    @geraldbelles7968 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like hunting sycamore but they are hard to spot

  • @indianacreekwalker4474
    @indianacreekwalker4474 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    never have ever heard sycamore for yellow mushrooms. Interesting

  • @nicktoofar3514
    @nicktoofar3514 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm headed to Truman lake for crappie fishing tomo Is it worth worth looking around the lake and those trees

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely! Things are slowing down, but I picked a bag full again today! Good luck!

    • @nicktoofar3514
      @nicktoofar3514 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@midwesttraditions4375 I'm coming from Iowa... So everyones patiently waiting up here

  • @bdlit7165
    @bdlit7165 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Down there the white trees with papery bark that grows in the low lands might be sycamore, up here that same description is birch.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  หลายเดือนก่อน

      They look very similar in appearance, but they're different trees. Thanks for watching!

  • @Twistsayin
    @Twistsayin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One the best patches I’ve ever found was in a sycamore grove that washed out in 2019 I found close to 300 big ones but it hasn’t produced any the past couple years just a couple here and there. I can’t wait here in Va. I have an early spot that normally starts popping around march 17 but my other spots start around the first week of April. Hopefully it’s like it was in 2019 flooding and humid conditions the last week of April. We were getting 4 to 8 inches a week. I never thought I would find 500 but new flushes kept popping up well over a 100 lbs found that year. However last year I only found around 60 morels. Just hope this years better than last year. An amazing 7 weeks of finding morels in the same area.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's awesome! It too have a few spots that flooded out and quit producing. Thanks for checking out the channel! I hope to add more morel videos in the coming weeks.

  • @kevinbrown2630
    @kevinbrown2630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just Saturday morning I found around 6 pounds in a 300 foot area. I had to crawl for an hour to get them

  • @Brent6437
    @Brent6437 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’ve been eating them for many years. But the last couple of years they have been making me sick. I don’t know what the deal is.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dang it, Man! I know someone that is having the same experience. I think I'd still have to hunt for them and give them away if I was in your boat. It's a passion!

    • @Brent6437
      @Brent6437 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@midwesttraditions4375 For sure. It’s so addicting once you find one. However I’m fortunate to even find a dozen of them because we don’t have that many where I live. But once in a while I can find enough for a meal.

  • @krazykitty5750
    @krazykitty5750 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just bought a couple of pounds, $40 a pound, some were 60 a pound, Minnesota, I won't pay that!!😮😂❤where are you located?😊

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This video was filmed in Missouri! Our season is over down here, sadly!

    • @krazykitty5750
      @krazykitty5750 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@midwesttraditions4375 we're at the end of ours. I used to hunt myself until I got Lymes disease, pacemaker now, AFIB. It sucks. Used to get blackberries too!! Oh well...

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@krazykitty5750 sorry to hear that. Ticks can be nasty critters.

  • @Rubo7
    @Rubo7 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in Missouri and I looked in low bottom creeks that were loaded with Sycamore trees and never found a single mushroom. We're you on top of a ridge or it doesn't matter? We're the Sycamore trees dying?

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately not all Sycamore groves have morels. I feel like theres definitely a higher percentage in them though. I was on ridges.

  • @shanecoleman4128
    @shanecoleman4128 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where are u located what state

  • @confucius2616
    @confucius2616 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    With the price rising, everyone will be out in the woods this year looking

  • @karinroach1244
    @karinroach1244 ปีที่แล้ว

    What state are you in

  • @robincivis9501
    @robincivis9501 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Recipes next?

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว

      That is absolutely on my list of to-do's! I hope to do a summer mushroom video this year, hunting for less common species!

  • @peggyhittle2243
    @peggyhittle2243 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would be there until dark. Lol

  • @user-hs5me4dw4n
    @user-hs5me4dw4n หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You finding any?

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely! Check out my 2024 videos from this season! We've had a great season, so far!

    • @user-hs5me4dw4n
      @user-hs5me4dw4n หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Looks to be a bumper crop for me this year.I found 83 and it's just starting.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice!

  • @brents4729
    @brents4729 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I pretty much only look around sycamore trees anymore. Id say 90% of the sycamore trees i come across ill find mushrooms.

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  ปีที่แล้ว

      They're very productive from my experiences as well!

    • @Twistsayin
      @Twistsayin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s more 50% here in Virginia but a good majority poplar, sycamore’s and black walnut trees.

  • @alloverthelake6396
    @alloverthelake6396 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The secret to finding morels, is to look where they are!

  • @Antler_addict
    @Antler_addict 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any hardwood!!!
    Anywhere in the u.s should produce if the moisture content is right! 2024 was a horrible year in the PNW due to no winter & very dry conditions!

    • @midwesttraditions4375
      @midwesttraditions4375  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're correct! We've had a multiple year drought in Missouri. This has made morel hunting incredibly tough in the southern midwest.

    • @Antler_addict
      @Antler_addict 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @midwesttraditions4375 ya, just not a good year for spring mushrooms. That's why I switched to shed antler hunting. It's been a great year & early too, when nobody expected it! I got on some giant sheds early!