Turkeys
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Nice bird, and on public land too. While you’re out and about the next few weeks keep an eye out for morels. Looks like a banner season shaping up around that latitude, from what little I’ve seen. A few stripers are showing up too, finally. This spring has been slow getting started.
…including night fishing on Lanier during which Jay Malyon and I got shot at…
What the hell? Getted fired upon: always a bad thing.
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Gary I have been looking for morels for the last couple seasons. Any tips on where exactly to find them in Georgia? Other than obvious places like big burns I don’t really know where to look.
Zach
I hunted Morels up in Wisconsin as a kid, and I remember always finding them in deep woods where most of the light was blocked out by the canopy.
Gary I have been looking for morels for the last couple seasons. Any tips on where exactly to find them in Georgia? Other than obvious places like big burns I don’t really know where to look.
Zach
I find them in river bottoms with large hardwoods and lacking sweetgum and pine. I notice my patches tend to have big sycamores and river birches nearby. I’m not a tree person and those are easy to ID with leaves off–so I don’t know if they’re particularly reliable indicators or just the trees I notice most. I find a lot under dense privet stands. I don’t find them in areas that have standing water or are flooded frequently (annually). They seem to prefer a band along the outer edge of the flood plain, on the edge of where the uplands begin. When I find a place with these characteristics I spend a lot of time squatting down and peering up under the privet and other undergrowth.
I’ve never hunted the Chattahoochee River, but from floats I’ve done on it I think there must be some good morel areas right there near town.
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I don’t have a clue how mushroom hunting varies from region to region.
I’ve only looked for them in the Ozarks. That being said, the Ozark forests are mainly oak and hickory with a scattering of several other species of trees, depending on the area/terrain you are in.
Prime area for mushrooms in Missouri will be in wet shaded areas. This might be a creek or river bottom. Or it might just be a heavily shaded side of a steep hill that is kept moist by water seeping from a rocky outcrop.
But one of the keys is if you can find some elm or ash trees. That can really be the ticket. Some people say look under live trees, some people say damaged trees. But if you can get into an area with either ash or elm…..hopefully both, you should be in the money.
Nice job, Zach! We’ve got Rio Grande Turkeys on the ranch and I always enjoy taking a big gobbler in the spring.
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