Showing posts with label Morels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morels. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Boys weekend in the UP

Took a couple day's extra on a short week and went north to the UP.
This is my regular annual trip to our cabin, where me and my boy meet up with my dad, and brother.

On the way up we stopped at a well loved and memory filled but now vacant farm.















We found morels.















Our morel guide, my cousin, came through big time.



Once at the lake - the BLUEG harvest was on.





Some Big Lake rocks and rock climbing.





This is the boy casting a dry fly upstream to rising trout. Don't know where he picked that habit up from, obviously not inherited.



I netted the one keeper of the dozen or so he hooked.



He ate it.


He also ate the Morels.





These are morel stuffed thai dumplings with plum sauce and my cousin's home brew.


I got out for one evening on the stream fro a couple of hours.
Fished with this fly.



With all of the brown line blog talk I should feel good about catching nothing but these, but, the experience left me hollow.




A flowering Dogwood on the great cyr swamp plain.



This pic speaks for itself.



Last night at camp bonfire.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Morchella Angusticeps - May 1

A field report from Delta County - U.P. filed yesterday :

HDW-

Found 2 nice black morels, morchella angusticeps, at Farm and one small one at Devil's Creek. Probably walked 8 miles and drove 80 mi for 3 mushrooms.

The woods are filled with hepaticas, a few blooming trout lilies, and bloodroot. Found one devil's urn. No other fungi. At Devil's creek the wild leeks are about 1/2 of their mature size. As usual, they are profuse.

Wild strawberries are just leafing. No sign of trillium or orchis. Apple trees are just beginning to bud. Daffodils at Farm are in full bloom in the sunny areas and just beginning in the woods along with scylla and a few crocus along the pond. Saw a beautiful 16 in garter snake and 6 painted turtles on a log at Long Lake and 6 or 8 wood ducks. There were sandhill cranes making alot of noise but I didn't see them.

Oddly, only one wood tick.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Snow is almost all gone

Last of the snow about to go ..



If you can find them, the Morels are here...