Shrooms of the day
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From: bill v
24-Sep-18
What are these?
From: RC
24-Sep-18
Mushrooms....
From: horsethief51
24-Sep-18
(Looks like) Sulfur shelfs. I found a tree with 30 pounds of them the other evening while out spotting deer. Picked a few to eat. Shake the dirt and bugs off, slice them thin and fry in butter. Great with back straps.
From: bill v
24-Sep-18
I ain’t eating those things. Theres about 4 more batches just like that
From: DaleHajas
24-Sep-18
They're my favorite! Cut off against the tree or break them off. Cut the thicker stem portion off for making mushroom soup. Slice remainder in pcs and I Fry them. Chicken of the woods. Theyre too good to pass up! Check the bottom sides for bugs. If There are holes w/ bugs then its too late.
As I zoom in it appears theyre already too old:(
From: Bob McArthur
24-Sep-18
Bill, tell me where they are & I'll go get them tomorrow.
From: horsethief51
25-Sep-18
There were twice as many on the back side of the tree. They are nice and tender.
From: bill v
25-Sep-18
Upper make. Bob
From: Bob McArthur
25-Sep-18
Upper make is a big township...wanna narrow it down a bit?
From: DaleHajas
25-Sep-18
On a tree lol
From: RC
25-Sep-18
Ya a dead tree.
Just look for the dead tree...
From: Rut Nut
25-Sep-18
LMBO! : )
From: Bob McArthur
26-Sep-18
Found this one today.
From: bill v
26-Sep-18
If you want them bob I’ll pick them for you next time in
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Mushrooms... now we're talking. Waddaya think I've bee doing since last winter? lol
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Stood at the sink cleaning sheepshead for over four hours yesterday.
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Sulfurs from yesterday
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
10 Sheepshead around one oak tree
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Do... Not... Eat... These... slim chance you'll survive doing so.
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
All stuff I've found the last couple days. This cloudy rainy weather has all types popping up all over.
Puffballs. Edible.
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
I have a lot more pics but I won't bore you guys with them. I'm starting long weekend tomorrow. Cool weather... more rain the past few days... been overcast.... shrooms are already blooming... this looks VERY promising. I haven't even been to my best spots yet... got a month's vacation coming with squirrel season. Does life get any better? This is my time of year baby... and this round will be a great one. This is life. And life is good.
Someone said that bow season starts soon?... Seriously, honestly... I had no idea it was so close until just this week.... and I don't care.
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
...about deer/archery season. I'll be out there most every day, but... ah nevermind.
From: Bob McArthur
27-Sep-18
Jeff, I'm doing more hunting for mushrooms than I am for deer. I am carrying a bow, but I never leave home without my shrooming bag and a knife.
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Me neither Bob. I carry an empty backpack... with many empty bags, a knife and a bottle of water.
I gotta remember to take my big knife for sheeps and sulfurs this weekend, the pocketknife doesn't reach in under them big ones too good.
From: Justgrad25
28-Sep-18
NOT........BORED........with PICTURES........ Anything that can help us amateurs look out for the good ones. I know one oak stump that has lots of sulphur shelfs. Also hesitant about picking shrooms......so nice close-ups of the "good ones" is very helpful. So please, post away....
From: Rut Nut
28-Sep-18
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Someone said that bow season starts soon?... Seriously, honestly... I had no idea it was so close until just this week.... and I don't care.
REALLY Jeff? I start getting excited every year starting around Labor Day..............................then it's just a month away from the Statewide Archery opener. I don't think you can call yourself a bowhunter if you forget when opening day is! ;-)
From: RC
28-Sep-18
I'll Just keep quiet here:)
From: Rut Nut
28-Sep-18
That would be a 1st Roy! ;-)
From: Teeton
28-Sep-18
Come on guys all mushrooms are edible,, some only once!!
From: Jeff Durnell
28-Sep-18
Well, I don't worry much about opening day since the season is 6 weeks long and I'm on vacation for 4 of them. Beginning Oct 11th to be exact. That date I DO know :^)
From: Jeff Durnell
28-Sep-18
Man, I hit the mushroom jackpot today. Found 21 sheepshead this morning, oysters, boletes, puffballs, two trees covered in young sulfur shelfs... and my freezer is already full.
From: Jeff Durnell
28-Sep-18
Oysters. Delicate. Yummy.
From: RC
28-Sep-18
Bowsite has now been renamed Schroomsite.com.
From: horsethief51
29-Sep-18
Deer eat them too you know.
From: RC
29-Sep-18
Oh that makes it all better then...
From: Jeff Durnell
29-Sep-18
Today was the first day of bow season right? I was shroom hunting of course :^) I was courteous of those who were bow hunting and didn't go into the woods near them. Found 20 Sheepshead, dozens of boletes, 10-12 Chanterelles(usually a july/aug mushroom), more sulfurs, a big cauliflower mushroom. Found 65 Sheepshead so far. I did see two doe, a handful of squirrels, two small flocks of turkeys, and buck today. The freezer needs meat... but there's just no room. Gonna have to fire up the dehydrators.
From: Bob McArthur
29-Sep-18
Jeff, check your messages.
From: Jeff Durnell
29-Sep-18
Replied to you, Bob.
From: Bob McArthur
29-Sep-18
Pictures emailed. Hope the ID comes out good...I have about 4 pounds of them in fridge.
From: Teeton
30-Sep-18
Not a mushroom guy. What is this?thanks Ed
From: Bob McArthur
30-Sep-18
Laetiporus sulphureus, known as sulphur shelf or chicken of the woods. That one looks prime, cut if off from its root. Google recipes and enjoy it. It freezes well.
From: tobywon
30-Sep-18
Just want to know if you guys use fixed blade knives or those expandables when you cut your mushrooms from the tree? :)
From: Jeff Durnell
30-Sep-18
Fixed big knife for cutting free sheepshead and sulfurs, so I can get all the way under them or behind them.
These Sheepshead are from this morning.
From: Jeff Durnell
30-Sep-18
I like my sulfur shelfs younger than that one Teeton. The older they get, the tougher they get. I would pass on that one.
From: Rut Nut
01-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
03-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
03-Oct-18
From: PAbowhunter1064
03-Oct-18
Dad found this Lions Mane mushroom....also edible.... more than once.
From: PAbowhunter1064
03-Oct-18
....and some Woods Ear, or jelly ear mushrooms.
From: Jeff Durnell
03-Oct-18
Nice finds you guys!
From: fishin coyote
04-Oct-18
Found this beauty tonight in the backyard
From: Jeff Durnell
04-Oct-18
Again... Pristine bears head tooth. Those things are cool and relatively rare. Enjoy!
From: Jeff Durnell
05-Oct-18
What a great shroomin day. Amazing. I found 48 Sheepshead, loaded up on oysters, and found some more sulfurs. Had to leave most of them behind because 2 crossbow hunters killed my mojo. They were all dressed in spankin new gear, head nets and everything... looked to be right off the cover of Cabelas. Hey Pittz, camo doesn't hide you if you don't allow it. They really thought they were hiding though... funny, standing there on the ground moving, pointing, twitching, talking... the critters were hid or had high tailed it out of there. They never saw me 50 yards away, peeking at em from behind a big hickory tree. I snuck out of there too and made a big loop through the puckerbrush back to the truck so they wouldn't see me. Going back tomorrow for the shrooms.
From: Jeff Durnell
05-Oct-18
18 Hens around one tree.
From: Jeff Durnell
05-Oct-18
From: PAbowhunter1064
05-Oct-18
Nice finds, Jeff. Found these cute ones growing off this tree....no idea what they are, but had gills.....I left em' there to grow.
From: Jeff Durnell
06-Oct-18
Nice pic Josh. I saw some of those too. Don't know what they are either.
From: Jeff Durnell
06-Oct-18
Here's what I brought back today... and I only kept the best of what I found. I easily left twice that many out there.
From: RC
06-Oct-18
RC's Link
The Pleated Inkcap is generally regarded as inedible, and its small size and thin flesh mean that there is little temptation to try eating this insubstantial mushroom. (Some sources suggest that these mushrooms may contain psychoactive substances, in which case they should be treated as being toxic and potentially dangerous.)
From: PAbowhunter1064
06-Oct-18
Thanks, RC....I'll keep them out of my soup!! ;-)
From: Stekewood
06-Oct-18
Nice little harvest today. Will be a nice addition to the elk burgers we are making for friends and family tomorrow.
From: Stekewood
06-Oct-18
Elk meat courtesy of this bull I shot on the last evening of my eight day archery hunt in Wyoming a couple weeks ago. :-)
From: PAbowhunter1064
06-Oct-18
Way to go, Steke!! Congrats!!
From: RC
06-Oct-18
WOW..
Awesome.. ^5
From: DaleHajas
06-Oct-18
Dink :)
From: Rut Nut
06-Oct-18
Way to keep this thread about BOWHUNTING Steke! ;-) And congrats on the bull!
From: Jeff Durnell
06-Oct-18
Yes, awesome! Great mushrooms! Are those cinnabar chants or regular? Thinking maybe the color of the pic is just off a bit. The others look a little dark in tone too.
From: Stekewood
06-Oct-18
Thanks guys. Good eye Jeff. They are cinnabars and the color is off a bit. There were loads of them about a month ago then a smaller second wave now. Dale, I had to settle for a dink at the last hour. ;-)
From: DaleHajas
07-Oct-18
A small portion of my chickens today:)
A small portion of my chickens today:)
Picked about #8 off a dead tree during a small walk today:) Gonna try throwing the thicker parts is a smoker for smoked wild mushroom soup~(8o)
From: Jeff Durnell
08-Oct-18
I found 8 blonde ones around this tree yesterday.
From: Jeff Durnell
08-Oct-18
And these a short distance away...
From: George D. Stout
08-Oct-18
Had a good year so far with chickens and hens.
From: Bob McArthur
08-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
08-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
08-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
08-Oct-18
Steke, congrats on the beautiful elk!
From: fishin coyote
08-Oct-18
Can I store hens in the fridge until the next day or do I need to cut them up right away
From: Jeff Durnell
09-Oct-18
You can keep them covered in the fridge for a couple of days if you can't get to them right away. I kind of have an assembly line of Hens going right now. Whole ones in the fridge. Three big bowls of them broken down and debugged waiting a good cleaning. And then I cleaned another big batch yesterday and had them in the dehydrator overnight.
That looks good Bob. The wife made Sheepshead scalloped potatoes with butterflied backstraps two days ago. It was good too.
From: Stekewood
09-Oct-18
Thanks Bob!
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
I found another 15 lb of Hen of the Woods this morning on my run. I've surpassed the 60 pound mark on Hen of the Woods Which I harvested. It looks like I also found a boatload of shrimp of the Woods which I just positively identify, so now I have to go back and harvest those either after work or first thing tomorrow morning. I ain't seen crap for deer but I sure am finding a hell of a lot of mushrooms.
From: PAbowhunter1064
09-Oct-18
Jeff - Where are the backstraps located on a mushroom? ;-)
From: Justgrad25
09-Oct-18
Quick question, will shrooms keep coming back year after year in the same spots? 2 years ago, there was an old rotting oak stump that had sulfur shelfs on it. Didn't check it last year. This year, strolled on by while I was scouting and nothing....nada.... I guess someone could have picked it clean...
From: Jeff Durnell
09-Oct-18
Bob, I think I've been seeing a BUNCH of those Shrimps, but I haven't looked them up yet and am not too familiar with them. Can you post pics? If my suspicions are correct... they're everywhere right now.
Justin, the simple answer is, sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. Mostly, it depends on the conditions... temps, moisture, and others. I know of two trees that can grow 40 - 50 pounds each of Sulfurs when they grow, but they average doing so about every 2 to 3 years. I don't think they CAN'T grow every year, but rather believe they COULD if the conditions were just right... but usually, we don't get the perfect conditions. It seems to me it depends on the timing of the rain mostly. Both trees grew them this year, as our rain was regular, a few times a week within the needed right time... and I left them go because I just don't have room in the freezer, and still have a ton of them. I watched them bloom, until eventually others cut them.
If someone else had cut the ones you were waiting for, you would have seen the white remnants on their bases on the tree. They can dry up and stay there, visible for a long time. The remnants of those I cut were still there, very visible, over two years later, until they grew again.
From: Jeff Durnell
09-Oct-18
Should get caught up on cleaning shrooms today or tomorrow. Glad I bought that big dehydrator a couple years ago. I'm seeing lots of squirrels and deer sign in my travels. Hopefully I can get out after them later in the week.
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
Here you go Jeff.
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
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09-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
I also found a species of stinkhorn.
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
Found this guy, but it was too old.
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
Found this guy, but it was too old.
From: Bob McArthur
09-Oct-18
Bolete
From: RC
09-Oct-18
From: RC
09-Oct-18
From: Jeff Durnell
09-Oct-18
Yep Bob, that's what I've been seeing. I suspected that's what they were.
I got the last of my Hens in the drier just now. Whew, that's too much like work. Guess I can go hunt em again tomorrow :^)
From: Rut Nut
10-Oct-18
From: PAbowhunter1064
09-Oct-18
Jeff - Where are the backstraps located on a mushroom? ;-)
LMBO Josh!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )
From: RC
10-Oct-18
On the back ya dummy:)
From: Jeff Durnell
10-Oct-18
Found 4 more Hens today and some Honey mushrooms. All catch and release. I had 4 ticks on me too.
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
At the base of an oak tree near one of my treestands.
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
From: RC
11-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
From: RC
11-Oct-18
From: RC
11-Oct-18
From: Rut Nut
11-Oct-18
Geez! How many lbs do you guys have so far???
From: DaleHajas
11-Oct-18
Couple Puffies while cutting grass at the mill:) and now I have 2 big reishi and my eyes on 4 more that are still young.
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
Rut, I have about 80lbs of sheepshead. Tonight was my last harvest of the season for them. I'm hunting some others.
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
I haven't found any puffballs at all.
From: RC
11-Oct-18
Look down, Bob. Look down. Lmfao
From: Bob McArthur
11-Oct-18
There's a puffball between RC's ears.
From: DaleHajas
12-Oct-18
~(8o)
From: RC
12-Oct-18
Pfuuball,, LOL You eat some bad mushrooms, Bobby?
From: Rut Nut
12-Oct-18
So....................................what's the bag limit on wild mushrooms??? ;-)
From: Jeff Durnell
12-Oct-18
As many bags as you can carry.
From: Rut Nut
13-Oct-18
LOL! Looks like you boys can carry quite a load! :)
From: RC
13-Oct-18
Ya they are both loaded with it...:)
From: Bob McArthur
14-Oct-18
Maitake steak parmigiana.
From: Bob McArthur
06-Nov-18
Weather sucks, won'thunt in the rain. So...making Hen of the Woods soup.
From: Bob McArthur
06-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
06-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
06-Nov-18
From: Jeff Durnell
06-Nov-18
Mmmm that looks good.
From: RC
06-Nov-18
Says campbells on the bowl...
From: Bob McArthur
06-Nov-18
Campbell's is a client of my wife.
From: Bourbonator
06-Nov-18
That soup looks good!!!!
From: HARRY CARRY
07-Nov-18
I'd love to try harvesting wild, edible mushrooms. As seen in the many types shown here. But, a lot depends on their colors, and since that's a big issue with me, I guess it's for the best that I don't go a'harvesting. That Clint Eastwood movie where he ate mushrooms kinda sticks in my noggin.
From: Bob McArthur
10-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
10-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
10-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
10-Nov-18
From: Bob McArthur
10-Mar-19
Hen of the Woods mushroom soup with leeks.
From: Bob McArthur
10-Mar-19
From: Bob McArthur
10-Mar-19
From: Bob McArthur
10-Mar-19
From: Bob McArthur
10-Mar-19
From: Flintnocker
10-Mar-19
Yeah! Good stuff! Here's where I am in shrooms just now. My ten year old grandson and I drive very slooooly to wherever we are headed for a day of outdoors, he sees them, and can now identify 12 choice edibles faster than I can. Yep, we eat very well here:)
