This post doesn’t have anything to do with gun dogs, other than it’s outdoors and it’s a lot of fun to have the dogs along in the field with you when you are mushroom hunting.
    Last year was such a great year for morels, so I was really pumped up for this spring. We had a good wet winter, and some nice showers early this spring, so I hoped that we would have another good morel crop this year. Unfortunately, I think it has been too cool and the timing of moisture just wasn’t right and we weren’t able to find a single morel. On the flip side, the coprinous mushrooms were very abundant. Their fairly tasty, but need to be cooked and eaten shortly after picking, whereas the morels can be dried and used in dishes for months.
    The dogs weren’t particularly helpful finding the morels, but they were fun to have out in the field. While out mushroom hunting we did have the one of the dogs point a nesting turkey. Luckily I was able to see her and pick up the dog and carry him off without bumping the hen off her nest.
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