Chanterelle questions

Jennie@ifish · 11-07-2002, 04:45 PM

Does anyone know how long, after it rains before they pop up?

and...

Will the freeze we had stop them from coming back now?

Is it over?

If so, it was a lousy year, right?

Jen

thankful · 11-07-2002, 09:00 PM

It has been a dry year and it normally takes a good rain. If things were normal, September and October would be good months for chanterells as well as for other mushrooms that typically flush during the fall. Again, it has been dry and this coming few weeks should be good to try your favorite secret places especially after this good rain we are having. Hint: Coastal areas should be prime...........

Trick · 11-07-2002, 10:00 PM

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww............mushrooms........... YUK!!!!!

:grin:

1pump · 11-07-2002, 10:10 PM

I'm curious about this..........I drive over Willamette Pass 2 or 3 times a week and from the last week of Sept to about 2 weeks ago there were hundreds of mushroom pickers and dozens of buyers in the Crescent Lake/Chemult area. Is it chanterelles they're after? I don't know anything about 'shrooms, but it seems kinda like a dry area up there. :whazzup:

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Smj · 11-08-2002, 06:04 AM

1pump, I would guess the pickers were after matsutakis (sp) and king boletes. Those two are the big money shrooms in the Cascades.

For my own tastes the matsutakis had a flavor reminiscent of the smell of grandmas damp basement, why they are so prized by asians is beyond me. The boletes were good though, dried they call them porcinni (sp).

Smj

dogfishboy · 11-11-2002, 06:12 PM

Jen,
One of our staff was talking to the Mycological society folks after their show at work. He indicated that as long as the fruiting bodies were not exposed there is a good chance new ones will pop up after the rains. Pete was curious too so I asked around. Forgot to tell him.

IT'S TIME !

Maybe I'll stop on my way home from hatchery work tomorrow at a certain place one of your mods showed me last week. Hope he's not there and doesn't read this :grin: just kidding Pete. I promised so...

TheTexan · 11-11-2002, 07:17 PM

There was an article about chanterelles in this past weekend Corvallis Gazette. The mushroom expert said that it usually takes two weeks for them to start popping up after the first rain. It also said a real hard freeze could keep them from sprouting at all. You might.........here you go:

http://www.gtconnect.com/archives/in...2-SUNVEN02.TXT

link to article

I have never had one, will you share with me?

Thumper · 11-11-2002, 08:23 PM

With my luck I'd eat a bunch of pizzen ones, p-u-k-e , and die.

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Fish_N_Russ · 11-11-2002, 09:51 PM

This rain should be plenty of precip for 'starting' the mushroom flushes. The coast range is prime area for chanterelle's. This is because almost all the 'good' chanterelle's need cool moist climates and only grow under conifers. I was up near 3000' in the coast range west of Falls City this weekend and saw many small chanterelle's, various Boletus sp. (the shrooms with holes instead of gills), and some Oyster Mushrooms......I have seen chanterelles up on Mary's Peak as well. Course I have also seen Fly Agaric's and Death Cap on Mary's Peak also! (deadly mushrooms).

Whatever you do, dont eat anything you're not 100% certain on the ID :smile:

Russell

garyk · 11-12-2002, 10:57 PM

The bright side to the unusually dry fall was that the chanterelles you could find had exceptionally low water content, making them super flavorful.

The one's we cooked released no water at all while pan frying thus all the flavor was kept inside and were simply, by all accounts, the best ever.

With the latest moisture this weekend should be prime for picking.

Jennie@ifish · 11-12-2002, 11:14 PM

Wow! That article is written by a friend of mine!
:smile:
Jen

Dear Holly,
Can you take me shrooming? :smile:

Jen

Jennie@ifish · 11-13-2002, 05:15 AM

Our favorite place was checked a couple days ago... on Sunday... And the ground was dry 1/4 inch down... Not enough moisture as of then.

Interesting how much it takes to soak it through after a dry summer such as ours.

Jen

Firedog · 11-13-2002, 07:44 AM

Jen Like you said even with all the rain it is still dry down an inch or so. I just got back from elk Hunting South west of Roseburg. And there were mushrooms coming up but I didnt see one Chantrell at all and it all looked like prime ground. Maybe in a week if it stays warm. I was hoping to find a good patch of them since we couldnt find any legal bulls to shoot. Chantrelles and grouse are excellent :smile:

fishuntr2 · 11-13-2002, 12:36 PM

This last couple of days I was in prime chanterelle country while elk hunting. Saw VERY few mushrooms of any kind. Found some freeze damaged and a few fresh chanterelles but nothing like I'm used too. The ground isn't super water saturated yet and we did have a period of COLD weather that usually ends that seasons picking. Time will tell but I'm thinking that its over for this year in my neck o woods.
Bob

garyk · 11-15-2002, 09:42 PM

If this Saturday is too windy to be on the water we may check out a spot West of Tillamook and right close to the ocean. With the ocean's influence, the tempertures should have stayed much warmer there as opposed to the top of the Coast Range places that we otherwise like at this time. We'll report back.

Jennie@ifish · 11-16-2002, 07:43 AM

Gary! Gary! Wait for me!!!!!!

I wanna goooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

CALL ME! :smile:

Jen

M W Sheller · 12-02-2002, 04:33 PM

I quit fishing in sept. to look for chantrells on the west slope of the Cascades. Very dry but I started finding them by the end of the month. Very few, just enough for one meal. Then it froze for a week, then rained for a week, and I've been going to my "secret" spot every week-end since then,and haven't found one chantrell [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]
Sat. 11/30 I went out to the coast north of Florence, worked an honest 5hrs. to line the bottom of a grocery bag with very small chantrells. Very dry there too.
The mushroom buyer in Eugene is getting good numbers of chantrells, so I know they are out there, but where???????? :whazzup: