Morel Season Nearing End

“How many mushrooms have you found, Rich?” a friend recently asked.

“The usual – nearly none.”

I went on to tell him I don’t have enough time to hunt mushrooms – correctly named morels – during the spring. Between fly-fishing for trout and trying to squeeze in some spring gobbler hunting, I just don’t have enough energy to look for morels. By the end of the first week of gobbler season, I’m exhausted from trying to burn the candle at both ends; and when the big evening fly hatches begin, I have to make a choice between turkey hunting and fly-fishing for trout during the hatches. The fly-fishin...