The American Dream
Love, Happiness, Possibility
Things are never as they seem
Poverty, Violence, Power, and Greed
A place where Evil plants its seed
Once a thought of utter perfection
Now a reality full of rejection and Destruction !!!

ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY !!

If paradise has a season, it must be perpetual April. Heaven knows, Missouri's outdoors are never more paradisaical than when there are turkeys strutting in the woods, crappie biting in the lakes and fungus underfoot.

Fungus underfoot?

That's right, April is the month when you can pursue Missouri's grand slam--turkey, crappie and morels. Each is without equal. No game matches the challenge presented by a wily tom turkey; no fish surpasses the delicate flavor of a crappie filet. And the morel? Well, it combines the best of the first two.

When to Find Mushrooms

Mushrooming isn't limited to April and May however. Mushrooms can be found from February to June. It's not an especially helpful answer, I admit, but neither is, "When the proper combination of temperature, moisture and nutrients occurs."

Even if you knew precisely what temperature and soil moisture content causes morels to sprout, the information would be next to useless. These factors change from day to day and from hour to hour in the springtime, not to mention variations from every ridge, hillside, valley and pasture in the state.

The morel patch you found dry as a bone yesterday could get a freak thundershower Sunday and be crawling with morels by Wednesday afternoon. Persistence is the hallmark of a successful mushroomer. The more days you spend in the field, the better the chances you'll be there when the 'shrooms are.

Still, there are some factors worth considering in deciding when to hunt for morels. The day immediately following a warm rain is good, all other things being equal. A nice thunderstorm at your house is your cue to check the south 40. Following a statewide deluge, you can extend the scope of your quest to distant sites.