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Title: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: ICEMAN on January 06, 2013, 07:17:28 PM: Walking on two bad hips as I approached surgery this fall / this hunting season I did not get out specifically for Chantrelles. Usually I have bucket after bucket brought home during elk and late deer, sometimes even later... I do a partial sautee and freeze them. They keep great this way.

How did you do this year?
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: Kc_Kracker on January 06, 2013, 07:25:43 PM: two 10 gallon tubs full in one trip, nearly got shot for them too :o
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: ICEMAN on January 06, 2013, 07:27:29 PM: How did you nearly get shot?

I did not see that many shrooms this year as in the last few...
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: steeleywhopper on January 06, 2013, 07:32:27 PM: One bag and that was it.
Title: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: sirmissalot on January 06, 2013, 07:38:38 PM: Not many at all. My spots didn't produce until November and they weren't plentiful by any means. A couple buddies said the same...
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: Kc_Kracker on January 06, 2013, 08:02:43 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on January 06, 2013, 07:27:29 PM
How did you nearly get shot?

I did not see that many shrooms this year as in the last few...

i have gone to the same area every year but apparently some tweekers have decided to claim this area as theirs now, i kinda laughed at a few 80 lb guys making threats til one brandished his sidearms. i was very lucky to also have one on me and one on my buddy. Hopefully they are not there next year :tup:
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: fishngamereaper on January 06, 2013, 08:06:15 PM: From what I saw they where late this year. End of October. And you had to get them quick cause the rain and snow mushed them in a hurry.
Title: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: sirmissalot on January 08, 2013, 08:15:51 AM: Quote from: fishngamereaper on January 06, 2013, 08:06:15 PM
From what I saw they where late this year. End of October. And you had to get them quick cause the rain and snow mushed them in a hurry.

That's exactly what I saw as well.

Where did you manage to get 20 gallons worth in one trip kracker? I may have to find a new spot, if I can fill a five gallon bucket I'm doing well in any of my spots.
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: Bigshooter on January 08, 2013, 08:25:30 AM: I went looking 5 or 6 times and never found any. Most guys tht i know found none or very few this year.
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on January 08, 2013, 08:30:38 AM: Although late, in Kitsap county they were still very plentiful. Being on the board for Kitsap Myc society helps too! Lol
We here lots of reports.

Green Mountain was good once the rain came and our last foray on Dec 8th produced very well.

Our Newberry hill spot as well Banner were going strong as well.

However, my Shaggy Mane spot did not produce anything. :(
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: eastsidemallard74 on January 08, 2013, 08:37:14 AM: I haven't ever picked Mushrooms, my Father In law loves em, can someone post a picture of what they look like, so I don't give him the funny /poisonous ones
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on January 08, 2013, 08:47:03 AM: Dont go on just pics. There are look a likes. A positive ID for mushrooms cannot be from a pic alone.
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: eastsidemallard74 on January 08, 2013, 08:50:09 AM: Ok
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on January 08, 2013, 08:53:16 AM: Some good info here.
The more you find the easier it gets for sure. Just be positive! Its better to go with someone who knows first.

http://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/chanterelle-mushrooms.html (http://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/chanterelle-mushrooms.html)
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: pianoman9701 on January 08, 2013, 01:05:44 PM: We're still selling chanterelles from the coast. Yellowfoot, hedgehogs, and black trumpet are also starting to become abundant.
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: JimmyHoffa on January 08, 2013, 01:09:38 PM: I didn't pick any this year. Mostly just found isolated groups of maybe five shrooms and were really sparse. Nothing like last year, when there were 'golden acres' of them.
Title: Re: Chantrelles, did you get many in 2012?
Post by: pianoman9701 on January 08, 2013, 01:23:47 PM: Quote from: wildmanoutdoors on January 08, 2013, 08:47:03 AM
Dont go on just pics. There are look a likes. A positive ID for mushrooms cannot be from a pic alone.

Good advice. For each variety of mushrooms you want to pick, go with an experienced picker the first time so you can see where they grow, what they look like, smell like, etc. Also, in lieu of a partner, visual ID combined with a spore print is 99.99% accurate. Especially with chanterelles, there aren't so many look-alikes that it takes a scientist to identify. But, a free mushroom is never worth a life. Always be sure.