I have a number of various projects around the house that will have me completely tied up for the rest of the weekend, but by the first of next week I plan on starting my 2010 hunts. The morels are just now starting to come up around here, we still need a little bit more rain, but we’re right on the cusp of the season and I can’t wait!

From what I’m hearing from the field – other hunters, bloggers, and from the various forums that I follow – it looks like the morels are just now starting to pop. Within a few days we could be up to our eyeballs in them, which is exactly what I’m planning on…

As soon as I start seeing solid production in my usual hotspots I’ll start updating you all as to this years crop – this could be a great year for morels, if the weather is any indication its going to be very promising out there.

I’ll be sure to post what preparation method and recipe I’ve gone with once I bring home the first take of the year. More to come soon – best of luck in your hunting!

We won’t lay down any specifics just yet, as to location, size, quantity, etc. but we know that the mid-Michigan morels are starting to show their faces.

A number of morel forums across the Internet are showing similar signs: the morels are coming, and it’s just a matter of time before we’re right in the heat of peak morel season.

So far our personal hunts and the “word on the street” from our fellow expert morel hunters have not shown significant yields – the morels are still very immature in many places, and conditions are not yet “perfect” for a massive haul. But it’s only a matter of time, and by matter of time it could just be a couple of weeks before there is an absolute morel explosion all across the state!

If this is your first year hunting morels, if you still haven’t quite mastered the art of the morel hunt, it might be the right time to consider honing your skills with the help of the Morel Mushroom Book. It doesn’t matter how many morels are out there and how huge and numerous they coming in – if you don’t know where to look and if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, you’re unlikely to find a single one this season.

It never ceases to amaze us how we’ll readily share the exact locations of our most prolific hunting spots and even after they have been supposedly been “picked clean” we’ll be able to come through after the fact and walk out with more morels than we have space for – its almost comical. Granted, with 30 plus years of experience at hunting morels, we’re pretty much guaranteed to be successful at finding fantastic mushrooms inches from where others hunters had just given it their all.

Claim your copy of the Morel Mushroom Book now, and make 2010 the year that you don’t miss any of that incredible “low hanging fruit!”