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I don’t turkey hunt, but I can’t wait just the few more weeks needed for mushrooms.
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Shovelbuck is about due to post some pics. of his first finds of the Spring. He does it every year.
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I have been turkey hunting during all the seasons and ALWAYS keep an eye out for mushrooms and never seem to find any? Any tips guys?
 
Look down.
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Just kidding. I find them a lot in nice shaded damp areas (along creeks). Some years are much better than others though. Our turkey ground used to be awesome, until the farmer bulldozed a fenceline to combine two fields. That fenceline held some nice ones every year. Just slow down. It took me a few years to get the hang of what to look for and where. Dead decaying trees make some good areas too.
 
A buddy of mine found almost 200 this last weekend in one area.I checked a few of my spots where I always find them and came up with a big fat 0.Too dry where I was looking.I need rain!
 
Dead elm trees are the best, ideally having the bark just starting to pull away from the tree. You spend some time looking around those, you're gonna find some 'shrooms...
 
In hardwoods look around pin oaks.Valleys with heavy leaf cover and soft fertile ground.If you want big loads of shrooms wait untill the first week of may and hit the river bottoms.Cotton wood and sycamore trees around soft maples can produce big loads when there up good.They all have a heavy leaf cover on the ground that is fertile and holds in moisture.On a bad year i can only find around 50#.On a good year me and the kids haul in up to 150# and more.Best day i had was a few years back when my son and i picked 45# in one afternoon.25 of those pounds came from one patch.
 
Friend of a friend said he picked 6# of greys on Thursday near Keosauqua. I'm planning a trip south next week.
 
Im taken the first week of may off work.Thats always been my best time for the bigger yellows.I will start poken around this weekend for some of those gray ones.Right now down around ST.Louis there just starten to get into the 4 inchers and bigger yellows.So they are coming this way.Can hardley wait
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Only thing I found today was a tresspasser looking for them.....doubt he will be back but am putting up a trail cam just in case. I did not see any in the regular places yet tho
 
I usually find them a couple weeks before Iowan's do, around the 9th of April. I have not found any yet. Will probably go look about wednesday. I start getting nervous if I can't find any by the 18th.
 
Found around 150 today, they are out in southern iowa like crazy, had to give up because had to come to work. Mostly greys but some good yellows.
 
Re: Spring Delicacies’

A friend of mine checked his honey-hole today, just north of I-80, and no luck yet. Keep the updates coming though, I cant wait for a good batch.
 
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