ever fish below the Lay Lake/Mitchell Lake dams? biggest crappies i have ever seen/caught in my life...
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Edible Mushroom Hunters/Gatherers...
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ever fish below the Lay Lake/Mitchell Lake dams? biggest crappies i have ever seen/caught in my life...
mittensmitten
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OP HERE... Thanks for keeping this thread going...@@
Moving to Maine, will be enjoying all the myriad mushroom picking opp'tys there.
Found ONE Morel on the property I live on. Same as last year, one. haha.
Moving to Maine, will be enjoying all the myriad mushroom picking opp'tys there.
Found ONE Morel on the property I live on. Same as last year, one. haha.
Better guard that patch, lol. I remember one time on an early forage I found 1 black morel. A bit disappointed but it was better than nothing. What do you do with 1 morel? Chop it up and fry it in with some scrambled eggs.
Damn sorry I missed this AOH, but no never have hit those places. Specks are one of my faves.
As for mushrooms, I picked a small basket of Chanterelle this evening. Rain again Friday so hoping for a good flush following that.
(Mittensmitten is ME) It's been awesome Downeast Maine. In the yard of the house I am in, there was a huge flush of Boletes and Suillus mushrooms. Most were edible. Yummy goodness. Hoping for another flush after the next bunch of rains. But, prob will get a few good freezes after that negating and ending the season until Spring. Cheers..!!!
Some Craterellus tubaeformis in Alaska, found in some Sphagnum bogs growing with wild cranberries, blueberries, carnivorous plants!
Cranberries-these were so sour, they make your A hole pucker, haha:
The Haul. Nice thing is, bog grown mushrooms were dirt free and very easy to clean, requiring no wiping or washing, which made them easy to cook since they were relatively dry (it hadn't rained in a while up there when we visited). If you can't get them to "scream" in the pan, they'll taste like dirty socks, but keep them frying rather than boiling, and wow, the flavor is out of this world! My friend's step dad said it was the best mushrooms he's ever had in his life, and dude's eaten a lot of mushrooms!
Habitat shot, who would have thought edible mushrooms grew in bogs like this?
Cranberries-these were so sour, they make your A hole pucker, haha:
The Haul. Nice thing is, bog grown mushrooms were dirt free and very easy to clean, requiring no wiping or washing, which made them easy to cook since they were relatively dry (it hadn't rained in a while up there when we visited). If you can't get them to "scream" in the pan, they'll taste like dirty socks, but keep them frying rather than boiling, and wow, the flavor is out of this world! My friend's step dad said it was the best mushrooms he's ever had in his life, and dude's eaten a lot of mushrooms!
Habitat shot, who would have thought edible mushrooms grew in bogs like this?
Great pictures of the Craterellus. It should be noted that in the pacific northwest these go by the common name yellow foot and are around in winter even after the golden chanterelle has stopped fruiting.
Got thru half of it so far. You are right it is mind blowing.
EDIT: Truly enlightening. Thanks...!
morel season is nearly upon us, hoping for more rain this spring than we got last year...
plenty of rain this spring, warm temps too. STILL no morels to be had...yet.
last day of turkey season tomorrow. gonna go early, look for morels when turkeys blow me off, and come home early. too damn hot today...
Cantharellus
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checked my early spots they are not up yet. Too dry here.
belleswell
Active member
Morels from last spring
belleswell
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We get these turkey tails in our woods in the fall.
