Can you at least tell people what part of the United States you're in, or what country and approximately an idea of what area, so people can determine if they are ready in there area? Or do you prefer to have new hunters just tell you where they live, so you can give them an idea of when to start looking?
Yes, please!, I want every sub, viewer, haters, strangers, xlovers, congressman, senator, dam president, mayor, tweeker and PRIEST PLEASE tell me give me your dang name and address and I, the morel muncher John will tell you exactly when and where you can pick all the local spots! Buckets Fulllllllllllllllah!
Hello Johnny, I just saw this video, wow! Where I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We have plenty of Poplar, Sycamore, Hickory, Ash, Elm, Wild black Cherry, Pine) The land is flat with small creeks and some flood areas. The open fields are commercially farmed (lots of chemicals 😤) so I stay away from those tree lines. I'm studying the barks of trees to hone my foraging. Most videos I watch talk about trees on southern slopes but we don't have hills. What wisdom would you share to help me? Thanx much
@patriciabragg9774 So stick to your Deciduous forest and away from those where Pine dominates. Most Deciduous forest are a mixed variety of trees. Some hosts Morel mycelium, some don't. All the trees in your statement are hosts to Morels. In these mixed forests, the trees, whether a host or not, they are all neighbor's they are all close to each other. My advice is unlike others for inexperienced Morel hunters. I say stop looking up at trees, look down and walk every square inch of forest you possibly can. Focusing on the forest floor for Morels. Covering as much ground as possible is the key! It only increases your odds. My big patches of Morel come from where water has caused erosion. Morels will pop where this erosion has occurred. So focus time along those creeks. Especially the inside bends of the creek where it's more likely water has spilled over into the forest during heavy rains.
@@johnnyfish6051 I live where West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio all meet where the Big Sandy River empties into the Ohio River. We have plenty of hills and woods with basically the same trees you have there. How do you feel about hunting close to Rivers. My friend says it's a waste of time here, but I see UA-camrs find them close to water sometimes.
Hey buddy! Today the season reaaaallly started for me. Yesterday I found some nice Morchella esculenta, yellow ones, under apple trees, southern slope. Also today every spot I found was on orchard meadows under apple trees, southern slope. Sooooo early for Morchella esculenta at our place. 2 - 3 - 4 weeks... BUT I found a 463g (1,02lbs) morel. Just wow! It was "young" would have grown more, but that would have been a bet with the mold danger. So it was my biggest, fresh and good to eat morel ever! Last year we had a 330g one... Good luck to you like always and keep up the good work on youtube please!
Thanks, that means a ton. I have alot of comments suggesting my mushroom videos are just me bragging. I'm a do'r not a say'r. I really do try to include some clues in every video on what it takes to get on the morels or if anything, to get people excited to try. Thank you.
I love that you go before me so I can get pumped up.I am still not picking even one even though I've had mushrooms on the ground.In 2 different states for 5 days, but there is nothing to pick.I'm going crazy.Can't sleep at night you know
I dont understand how that's greedy, especially if its his land. I think yall just jealous. He's telling you where and hiw to find them. How about take the info He's giving you free of charge and go find em for yourself, and if you dsont have time then dont complain about buying em. People bitch about anything i swear. On another note, congratulations to you man.
Thanks. You wouldn't believe the time and effort it takes to make a UA-cam video like this. Let alone the years of knowledge and passion I'm passing on to all. The morel season is only so long even after a lifetime of hunting morels you can only know so much. If you really think about it, if a guy's lucky enough to hunt morels for say....40 years maybe only 30 of those years are actually productive years. Meaning some years it doesn't rain enough in your area to produce many morels. It happens! Every 4 or 5 years, I barely find enough to make one meal. So...call it thirty years. 30 years times (x) 3 Saturdays hunt morels for 6 hours 30 × 3 × 6 = 540 hours. What can you become good at or an expert at after only practicing it for 540 hours ?? Your job, a sport , spouse, mowing your grass, monopoly, picking your nose?.... No, NOTHING, 540 HOURS you can't become the master of anything. The season is short, and morels pay well. Thanks for what you do, Nate! See ya.
SHOoooo... I beendoinit1974 by the time I was eight I picked more Granny's than a dead man can see on the back of his eye lids. She knows I'm playing. Thanks
Kansas is where you are harvesting all your Morels. At least now people can compare where their area is versus yours and get an idea of the weather differences and when to search.
Not all. I pick in 5 states. Not all five every year, but sometimes. Just so you know, my videos are done one sometimes two years in advance. These videos are not to update people on when morels are up in a certain area. They are to get you excited and feverish to get out and find some morels. Thanks!
Im new to this, but i went out today to look for some morels, i found some on the hillsides, but they were fairly small and kinda dry. Im in the foothills of south carolina. Did i miss the season?
If the stems are still white, then morels are still fresh, and rain could help them. If the stems are stained ( streaks of orange, browns, or black then they are probably getting old.
Yep! There is only one way to get morel mushrooms... you have to get out and get in the woods and look and trek and look and trek and look!.. and you will find morel mushrooms! 😊
@@johnnyfish6051 just getting hungrier for that taste. Probably not gonna see anything here til mid April in SW Wisconsin. It's a Rare bond talkin😂 now it's basically hamburger.
@SidemeatNo7 I worked with a guy who ate a hamburger every day for lunch. He brought raw hamburger smashed flat in the bottom eight inch round container....and microwaved it! It came out four inches around, pale like tree bark and slapped it on four pieces of plain white wonder bread, so two pieces of bread on each side of his hamburger. No sauce no vegetables no salt nothing else on it! Every dam day?
Not an expert. Just take long walks in woods and sometimes nature gets in the way. If you mean G.caroliniana or "big red" yes I eat them but nobody else should . Like 100% of anything you put in your mouth well....it could kill you. I only eat the top 1/3 of the cap. I do this because the stem has tremendous ability to absorb actual dirt all the way to the cap.
Hey Johnny, have you ever weighed your heaviest morels? I'm up here in Southern Ontario Canada, and i got one last year that weighed 268 grams, and it was huge! I bet you find them bigger though??
The greed of collecting mushrooms the greedy people will pick everything and then sell them and people that will actually eat the they are the ones that suffer
I know! And people never give any away to total strangers or friends and family who are old or life is too busy to mushroom hunt because there slaves to greedy businesses they have to work for. Then you have the really bad ones! I heard they actually sell them so their four children have money to buy shoes! They should be locked up! Don't get me started on garage sale, sales tax!
Cottonwood, sycamore American elm, river maple, the first half of the video in the Cain and grass those morels were associated with Cottonwood. The second half and end were sycamore.
Couple things... tare on the scale will set the weight back to zero after putting the bucket on it. Unless you weighed them all at one time (which seems odd since you had multiple buckets full) you would need to subtract 2.2 pounds from each bucket you weighed. Not just once.
Don't pull them hy the roots. Break them off. My family hunted these for 50+ years and they eventually stopped growing and we feel its from pulling them up from the roots.
There is no possible way you are finding Morels already before April. I just checked my spots today and not a single thing of any kind is growing. Trees don't even have buds on them and it's been 20-30 degrees every single night here in Eastern Ohio. Morels don't grow in that. These have to he last years videos.
@johnnyfish6051 Dude, temperatures have been in the 30s, morels don't grow in that. These videos are obvious last years as it is still too cold, below freezing at night.
@@johnnyfish6051In Poland I have a place where they grow hundreds of kilograms every year. Not to be carried away. They grow everywhere in groups of 100-300 pieces. But unfortunately I didn't manage to sell a single gram :(
Can you at least tell people what part of the United States you're in, or what country and approximately an idea of what area, so people can determine if they are ready in there area?
Or do you prefer to have new hunters just tell you where they live, so you can give them an idea of when to start looking?
Yes, please!, I want every sub, viewer, haters, strangers, xlovers, congressman, senator, dam president, mayor, tweeker and PRIEST PLEASE tell me give me your dang name and address and I, the morel muncher John will tell you exactly when and where you can pick all the local spots! Buckets Fulllllllllllllllah!
Who's first??
Hello Johnny, I just saw this video, wow! Where I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We have plenty of Poplar, Sycamore, Hickory, Ash, Elm, Wild black Cherry, Pine) The land is flat with small creeks and some flood areas. The open fields are commercially farmed (lots of chemicals 😤) so I stay away from those tree lines.
I'm studying the barks of trees to hone my foraging. Most videos I watch talk about trees on southern slopes but we don't have hills. What wisdom would you share to help me? Thanx much
@patriciabragg9774 So stick to your Deciduous forest and away from those where Pine dominates. Most Deciduous forest are a mixed variety of trees. Some hosts Morel mycelium, some don't. All the trees in your statement are hosts to Morels. In these mixed forests, the trees, whether a host or not, they are all neighbor's they are all close to each other. My advice is unlike others for inexperienced Morel hunters. I say stop looking up at trees, look down and walk every square inch of forest you possibly can. Focusing on the forest floor for Morels. Covering as much ground as possible is the key! It only increases your odds. My big patches of Morel come from where water has caused erosion. Morels will pop where this erosion has occurred. So focus time along those creeks. Especially the inside bends of the creek where it's more likely water has spilled over into the forest during heavy rains.
@@johnnyfish6051 I live where West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio all meet where the Big Sandy River empties into the Ohio River. We have plenty of hills and woods with basically the same trees you have there. How do you feel about hunting close to Rivers. My friend says it's a waste of time here, but I see UA-camrs find them close to water sometimes.
Lawd have mercy!!! Just absolutely unbelievable! Congratulations!
Lawdy! Lawdy!! Crack me up! THANKS
Hey buddy! Today the season reaaaallly started for me. Yesterday I found some nice Morchella esculenta, yellow ones, under apple trees, southern slope. Also today every spot I found was on orchard meadows under apple trees, southern slope. Sooooo early for Morchella esculenta at our place. 2 - 3 - 4 weeks... BUT I found a 463g (1,02lbs) morel. Just wow! It was "young" would have grown more, but that would have been a bet with the mold danger. So it was my biggest, fresh and good to eat morel ever! Last year we had a 330g one... Good luck to you like always and keep up the good work on youtube please!
Hallo, that sounds like a good spring so far. 1 lb morel! Super. Take care.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. Knowledge makes things much easier.
Thanks, that means a ton. I have alot of comments suggesting my mushroom videos are just me bragging. I'm a do'r not a say'r. I really do try to include some clues in every video on what it takes to get on the morels or if anything, to get people excited to try. Thank you.
The only content i need
Keep her goin Johnny, almost that time!!
O'man, thank you!
Thanks for your tips! So valuable!
Unreal hunt!!
Thank you. Your simple words mean so much. Thank you!
OMG I am so jealous! I cannot wait!!❤❤❤Nice granny BTW.😁
The old Granny wasn't ever getting stood up.
I love that you go before me so I can get pumped up.I am still not picking even one even though I've had mushrooms on the ground.In 2 different states for 5 days, but there is nothing to pick.I'm going crazy.Can't sleep at night you know
I do it all for you!...................................................................................................."toes crossed " hehe.
Two words come to mind. Holy shit!!!
Nobel prize worth thought. I like that.
Awesome day brother. Man if that's any indication to what they are going to be this year, then he'll yes. Love the videos brother. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much, Chris. Hope it motivates ya to find a truck load!
Cloud 9, you got me drooling, at least 2 weeks away. Eastern Iowa. Well done
Thanks! Hope it gets you pumped up. Get'm buddy!
you need our packboard system this year bud.... love watching your excitement.
It never gets old.
Great watching you
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks!
Great content!
Thanks.
I do agree. Transition lines are key. That’s why mounded areas provide perfect spots. You got some real honkers there bro.
Yep. So mounds,what size? Like where trees have uprooted and left a mound. Or house sized mounds?
I dont understand how that's greedy, especially if its his land. I think yall just jealous. He's telling you where and hiw to find them. How about take the info He's giving you free of charge and go find em for yourself, and if you dsont have time then dont complain about buying em. People bitch about anything i swear. On another note, congratulations to you man.
Thanks. You wouldn't believe the time and effort it takes to make a UA-cam video like this. Let alone the years of knowledge and passion I'm passing on to all. The morel season is only so long even after a lifetime of hunting morels you can only know so much. If you really think about it, if a guy's lucky enough to hunt morels for say....40 years maybe only 30 of those years are actually productive years. Meaning some years it doesn't rain enough in your area to produce many morels. It happens! Every 4 or 5 years, I barely find enough to make one meal. So...call it thirty years. 30 years times (x) 3 Saturdays hunt morels for 6 hours 30 × 3 × 6 = 540 hours. What can you become good at or an expert at after only practicing it for 540 hours ?? Your job, a sport , spouse, mowing your grass, monopoly, picking your nose?.... No, NOTHING, 540 HOURS you can't become the master of anything. The season is short, and morels pay well. Thanks for what you do, Nate! See ya.
Awesome brother!
Yeah you are!
Dang Johnny that’s what you call a Honey Hole!🍯🕳️
You got yourself another subscriber my friend 🫡
Thank you, means a ton!
Nice haul!!!
Thanks ,lucky day.
Oooo Johnny shes gonna get ya fo that one! Lol yeah she invented the grannies, taught us well!
SHOoooo... I beendoinit1974 by the time I was eight I picked more Granny's than a dead man can see on the back of his eye lids. She knows I'm playing. Thanks
nice one buddy..... lets go!
I just like to walk. Nature always gets in my way.
Love it!
I'd like to know how you're making the spore balls
I'm in the bluffs along the Mississippi River in Northern Illinois & its almost time:)
Just click this link to see how I make spore blocks.ua-cam.com/video/mxuK1MlCYis/v-deo.htmlsi=bj8gElrqsnfrNskX
Nothing a little steak fat and butter can't fix ❤️🤤
That can cure the world slabby.
😅😅Hardworking people always make the most. Wow me sir! I am going to look for it soon in MD.
Right on,Get'm!
I wanna go with you guys! Lol
You gota be tough! It takes what most ain't got.
Kansas is where you are harvesting all your Morels. At least now people can compare where their area is versus yours and get an idea of the weather differences and when to search.
Not all. I pick in 5 states. Not all five every year, but sometimes. Just so you know, my videos are done one sometimes two years in advance. These videos are not to update people on when morels are up in a certain area. They are to get you excited and feverish to get out and find some morels. Thanks!
Son lirios . ‽ 👍🤩🙏
No el morel champino. Delicioso!
“ Gonna have to start a second bucket “ Lol! I wish I had your problems!!! Awesome!
Ha!
Now those are some honkers!
Yeah buddy!
They were awful large nice looking mushroom. Is that where you Put the mushrooms spores out at that one place
The area with the Sycamore and larger yellows, yes. Many years. Its a thing.
😲 dang bro those are beautiful. Big ole plump giants. Do you deep fry those big things?
Hell to the yeahya!
Those are some nice morel! What month were these picked?
May last year
Im new to this, but i went out today to look for some morels, i found some on the hillsides, but they were fairly small and kinda dry. Im in the foothills of south carolina. Did i miss the season?
If the stems are still white, then morels are still fresh, and rain could help them. If the stems are stained ( streaks of orange, browns, or black then they are probably getting old.
Why don’t you use a mesh bag to spread the spores? Great finds!
They damage the mushrooms.
Jonny Fish! King Morel!!
Other way around. I think they control me. Good drug?
@@johnnyfish6051 absolutely best thing on earth most spiritual thing in the woods! Magical
You are so lucky to live in such an area.
I can also go several years in a row and barely find enough for one meal. It's out of our hands. A prize worth waiting for!
What part of the Country is this? Is this "this" year, or older footage? Snow on the ground where I'm at.
So far out in the country we don't even name this place. Hope the video gets you excited for your 2024 morel season.
Yep! There is only one way to get morel mushrooms... you have to get out and get in the woods and look and trek and look and trek and look!.. and you will find morel mushrooms! 😊
BOOM!
looks like it was logging area maybe..newbie here,,thoughts??
Chomping the tick man you're sick.
Yes,yes I know. I do it for mankind. Your welcome and congrats! your the first to comment on the subject. Thought a ton of people would have noticed?
Oh wait, Looks like your in Kansas!!
Don’t use buckets or plastic bags to collect them in they keep the spores from falling out onto the ground, use onion sacks
Yeah they do.
Hey 👋 how you doing
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Gucchi good!
Which river bottoms are you picking in? 😊
Ha! Thank you for watching Gary.
Must be from Missouri I live in Dallas county
I pick a few Momorels.
Thank you Johnny...
Ya still kinda piss me off 🤣😁
Guess what....don't care. Thanks....I guess.
@@johnnyfish6051 just getting hungrier for that taste.
Probably not gonna see anything here til mid April in SW Wisconsin. It's a Rare bond talkin😂 now it's basically hamburger.
@SidemeatNo7 I worked with a guy who ate a hamburger every day for lunch. He brought raw hamburger smashed flat in the bottom eight inch round container....and microwaved it! It came out four inches around, pale like tree bark and slapped it on four pieces of plain white wonder bread, so two pieces of bread on each side of his hamburger. No sauce no vegetables no salt nothing else on it! Every dam day?
@@johnnyfish6051 there are dangerous folks on most worksites. Just be glad ya didn't hafta meet his vife😂
Hehe!!
Nice. Is this this year?
Last spring.
would be cool to place a GoPro by one and watch it grow
@@masongonewithmommanature7543 yep.
With your obvious expertise on mushrooms clearly, what are your thoughts on the false morel. I heard one guy saying if you cook them right they're ok
Not an expert. Just take long walks in woods and sometimes nature gets in the way. If you mean G.caroliniana or "big red" yes I eat them but nobody else should . Like 100% of anything you put in your mouth well....it could kill you. I only eat the top 1/3 of the cap. I do this because the stem has tremendous ability to absorb actual dirt all the way to the cap.
Hey Johnny, have you ever weighed your heaviest morels? I'm up here in Southern Ontario Canada, and i got one last year that weighed 268 grams, and it was huge! I bet you find them bigger though??
Not really. I have once or twice in the last thirty years but don't remember any weights. I probably should start.
@@johnnyfish6051 yeah I would be interested to see how big you can find them down where you're at!
The greed of collecting mushrooms the greedy people will pick everything and then sell them and people that will actually eat the they are the ones that suffer
I know! And people never give any away to total strangers or friends and family who are old or life is too busy to mushroom hunt because there slaves to greedy businesses they have to work for. Then you have the really bad ones! I heard they actually sell them so their four children have money to buy shoes! They should be locked up! Don't get me started on garage sale, sales tax!
Every year i find some i give some! People gotta share more!
Ummm, yes please.
Thanks for watching .
bro I loved this video until you bit that tick... then I labeled you legend! awesome content!
Been finding em for 2 weeks at least here in oklahoma got about 12 pounds so far
Wooo! Good hall, send them my way.
Hual!
Or maybe you have a good hall?
Nevermind...
@@johnnyfish6051 that spot has definitely been good to me this yr lot in the bunch grass like the first of your video
What tipe of trees are those
Cottonwood, sycamore American elm, river maple, the first half of the video in the Cain and grass those morels were associated with Cottonwood. The second half and end were sycamore.
I'm watching one right now of the burn area one. Wow man your on it!!!
Thanks for the reply!!
Nice shrooms. Weighing stems doesn't count though
I've weighed and sold morels for along time now, and no one has complained. They count and are delicious.
What state are you in ?
Mostly confused??? Thanks for asking.
Couple things... tare on the scale will set the weight back to zero after putting the bucket on it. Unless you weighed them all at one time (which seems odd since you had multiple buckets full) you would need to subtract 2.2 pounds from each bucket you weighed. Not just once.
Thank goodness you're on top of this. I will fire my accountant immediately!
Thanks for watching. Means a ton!
6000lbs.........right?
You need a net bag not a bucket .
Why?
Don't pull them hy the roots. Break them off. My family hunted these for 50+ years and they eventually stopped growing and we feel its from pulling them up from the roots.
Okie Dokie, thanks.
Heard tales of shaking them alittle when pulled to drop some spores for future
What state is this?
Contentment....thanks for asking Koofster.
@@johnnyfish6051 Virginia, got it!
What state are you t?
Mostly content. Thanks for watching.
I might cry lol
You'll be laughing when you find a bucket of morels this year. Get'm!
What state ?
Mostly content. Thanks for watching.
What state you in cause I don't start finding them tell May
Thanks for watching. Hope the video gets you excited for your 2024 Morel season.
Can I buy some?
Already gone. Thanks.
I’m sure they are. Thanks
@seanhogan1556 Yep I ate'm all.
There is no possible way you are finding Morels already before April. I just checked my spots today and not a single thing of any kind is growing. Trees don't even have buds on them and it's been 20-30 degrees every single night here in Eastern Ohio. Morels don't grow in that.
These have to he last years videos.
I don't live anywhere near Ohio. So I don't get the comparison? When did I say these weren't last years videos? OR any year before?
@johnnyfish6051 Dude, temperatures have been in the 30s, morels don't grow in that. These videos are obvious last years as it is still too cold, below freezing at night.
Again? When did I say these weren't last years videos? OR any year before.
You are just wrong... I live in Charlotte, NC... I found them starting March 8 and have over 250 in only two hunts.
@@michaelspunich7273 Maybe in NC but not in Ohio, not possible here yet.
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Yep
man, what beautyfull picks! how have night time temps been?
It varies so much. Spring ya know. 30, 40, 50's might be high as 58. Changes every two days or so.
Hello. What are you make on this. sell?
Fresh Morels Morels sell from 40 to 80 dollars per pound.
@@johnnyfish6051In Poland I have a place where they grow hundreds of kilograms every year. Not to be carried away. They grow everywhere in groups of 100-300 pieces. But unfortunately I didn't manage to sell a single gram :(
Oh snickerdoodle.
What state is this?
Contentment. Thanks for watching.