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fungus?
I fished yesterday with limited success for Smallmouth but the night wasn't totally wasted. I spotted a nice sulfur shelf mushroom that contributed to lunch today with enough left over to freeze for my next batch of chicken soup. Does any one else keep their eyes open for mushrooms while fishing?
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Yes I do. I have made several meals from Boletes this year as well as morels. I also gather shaggy manes later in the year. I limit my gathering to those three species because I am sure tha I can ID them and not make an error and eat something that could prove disasterous.
Tim
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Rainbowchaser, I never have, but my dad always put fungus as a priority over anything else he was doing. I know I've related this before, but it bears repeating due to your query: once, while bowhunting Utah Mule deer, my father and I were still hunting through some pine stands and I noticed he kept stopping now and again and looking down and then picking something up. As I got closer to him I realized he was picking mushrooms and we ended up having them with our supper that evening. After supper a fellow hunter asked my dad how he knew which shrooms were poisonous or not and my father replied that if he didn't wake up the next morning, he ate the wrong ones - the look on this fellows face was absolutely priceless, but I also went to bed with a bit of a concern...Yup, I woke up and I'm still here!;)
Kelly.
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:lol: LOL, Kelly! :lol:
My Dad would occasionally gather some mushrooms in a canyon where he occasionally worked. And we are still alive, too.
Anymore, it seems the places I fish are too high, or too dry for any 'srooms. Best I see are on the lawn sometimes. But I'm not going to eat those! I pee out there occasionally. :p
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We have a few edible mushrooms in our area, but its no secret that the vast majority of mushrooms are no god for eating, and in fact some are deadly, so i rarely take them. Once when I was a little kid, the field across form our house was covered in little white mushrooms that were good to eat...two years in a row. Never happened before or since, but those years it was nice. Every now and then we'll come across a sheeps-head mushroom in the fall and take it, making sure to leave a bit so itll grow back next year.
There's morels in my area too, but I've never seen one in my travels.
As a boy scout, I learned that there's plenty of good stuff to eat out there without having to resort to guessing if a mushroom is good. :)
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Yesterday while I was out I collected enough oysters and chanterelles to freeze a bunch even after a wild mushroom risotto dinner.
Today....King Bolete.... my absolute favorite
:D
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I don't know enough about them to trust myself eating them, but the variety and uniqueness of them as a lifeform make me pause every time I see them. If I remember correctly, the largest living organism on the planet is a fungus.
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I'm careful about what I eat. I have two field guides and if I can't get a good positive I.D. they just get thrown away. Panman, watch those shaggy manes. They have a look alike that reacts badly (vomiting, not serious I guess) with alcohol for several days after their eaten. If you are getting them from the same place every year you should be all right. If you find a new place make sure they are the same as what you have been eating
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Thanks Rainbowchaser. Never had any problems with the shaggy manes but again I gave up booze about 15 years ago..
Tim
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morels only and then it is a two week season. when I was younger I could eat a ton of them but now that I'm older they are so rich I can eat only a handful. Heard that you could sell them for $50 a pound in Minneapolis this past spring. I might look a little harder next spring.