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They've started to find the first black morels in our area and with the moisture we've had this year it should be a bumper crop all season.

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Hey brick I don't realy hunt mushrooms , But I do Have a story .

 One time when I first started this water job . I was a pipe line inspector for new waterline installation .I was standing in the woods by some old rotted tree looking like I was lost . When the guy running the backhoe took the extension arm and picked me up off the ground . Then he got off the hoe with a paper bag .ran over where I was standing and started plucking shrooms . 1 of them had to weigh at least 2lbs I didn't have a clue what was going on until I saw that huge mushroom.

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Yeah Waterman, that's kind of what I was looking for. Mushroom stories you'll never forget. I see you're from Ohio so you're in a good spot for them as this part of the midwest is the best.

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I usually go mushroom hunting every year but my father fell and broke his hip so I'm taking care of him instead of hunting down mushrooms.  Man, I'm gonna miss that.....Hopefully get back to em next year....Those of you going, good luck to ya.....The past few years I haven't done all that well.....It always seems the conditions are less than favorable for one reason or another. 

My father found a black morel one time that was 11 inches high by 7 inches wide.  Got his name and picture in the paper with it.  Truly an amazing mushroom....

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Well I'm back from my vacation and have to say the mushrooms were a little disappointing this year but they are still coming up so I may get lucky yet. We found about 35 pounds which is far below normal so hopefully the coming days can pick up the slack.

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-Hey Brick, definitely an interesting idea for a blog!

-Can't say as I've ever gone hunting for mushrooms (at least your garden variety), but I do love 'em.  Love portabellos and shitakes.  Fortunately the Japanese also love their mushrooms, and they are actually pretty reasonable here (they call them "kinoko", which loosely translates as "child of the tree"-  very interesting...).

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Still finding some big yellow morels out there so the year has definitely extended. The State Park we camped in raises shitakes off of innocculated oak logs. Cool!

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Hey Brick! 35 pounds sounds pretty good. I really don't know anything about mushroom hunting except what I learned in my mis-spent youth. Trust me - you don't want to get caught with any shrooms like those! Anyway, what did you do with the 35 pounds?

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A good year is 100 plus pounds so it was a little weak this year. I just give them away to elderly folk around here that can't get out in the woods any more but love mushrooms. Most people around here sell them for upwards of 20 dollars a pound but that is bad karma.

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Heya, Brick. If you ever have an overload abundance of Sponges again, look me up. I am in the area.  I live west of the other park in the area and found maybe 5 lbs this year. Of course, I only went once.