Morels

[fly]

Found the first morels of the season today - seven grey's. Looked same area two days ago and there were none.

[MUDRUNNER]

That time of year. I've been hearing of a few guys finding them here & there. I might try to get out looking Saturday if i can get away. Last year I found a pretty good number of mushrooms on the 17 th.

[fly]

Been out turkey hunting and so far not one morel yet. Did see a hen and was calling to 3 different gobblers this AM. The gobblers simply would not come in. Gobbled 20+ times 100 yards away for about 20 minutes.

[wtnhunt]

Sure we have some morels around here, along with a lot of other fungus.  I don't know the difference between them though and don't eat shrooms.

Good luck getting those henned up birds in closer Frank. With the hardwoods beside us gone, so are any close birds.  Closest gobbles to our property I have heard have been at least a half mile off our property, pretty pointless to even try to call them. 

[fly]

William, do you not have public land to hunt turkey any where close to you? My days of hunting small-medium farms for turkeys are over. One never knows which ridge they will be on and when you have less than 300 acres to hunt the birds might be a ridge over for the week you have to hunt them. I do have to deal with other hunters on public ground, but prefer the nobility options that hunting 2000+ acres of land allows.

[wtnhunt]

I usually just hunt landowner on our farm and do not have to buy any license.  I have never really had much luck with turkeys anyway, like you say they always seem to be one ridge over or in the bottoms just the other side of the property lines.  Never tried a big farm or state ground. There are birds in the general area here, the boy that has the property behind us killed a monster bird the opening weekend.    

Land between the lakes is a little over an our from here.  I would have to do some research on it, but from all I hear it is pretty tough hunting birds there.  Just don't think I could justify the expense and time involved for overcrowded ground on tight lipped birds.  Hoping we can get something in the works to add a little acreage in the future.  

On the shrooms, currently seeing a lot of mushroom looking fungi popping up from cowpies.  Guessing those are not of the human consumption variety.  lol

[fly]

Right - don't eat cow pie shrooms! LOL

I have never hunted LBL but have drove through there while deer hunting in KY last year. Looked like a great place to hunt - considering giving it a try for deer in the near future. I currently hunt private ground in KY that's only 20 minutes from LBL. Would be nice to have another KY permit as once a tag is filled that's it (unless you have a LBL tag).