Well i have been out the last week everyday. I am from the Quad cites in illinois. The ground is so nice and just perfectly wet. Today is (4-22-2008) and we just got a nice rain in the mourining and the weather has been perfect nice and hot and huimid the last couple days so any day the lil ******* should be popping up i cant wait but if there is anyone that is finding them in illinois or iowa then shout out and let me know. I also go to dewitt iowa every weekend and stay there have been out there and the same has been happening everything is perfect for them... Usually iowa down on the border of MO is a week before us. well everyone in the illinois iowa area write me back...

thanks seth irish

Hey there, I'm a DeWitt native currently living in the Iowa QC's. I've been waiting for the perfect moment too and was also thinking of hunting this weekend. Have you ever found any in Westbrook park? I have a spot out by Grand Mound that is usually a good place to look. I think we may have some this weekend but my best would be on first weekend in May.

is that the park by kriegers car dealship if so then i have never found any there but i have been looking there... Are a lot of down elm trees but i am guessing there are also a lot of ppl that look through there... By the way do you know the last name Waack, in dewitt

but yeah morals are real close i mean everything so far is perfect as long as we dont get no cold spell they said somehting about frost on friday night i think they took it back though the lowest temp is going to be around 45 i think and everything else about 50 to 80's next week. today is nice and humid so it will help out a lot i am guessing- today is tuesday i will guess maybe tommrow that there may be a few out because of the perfect rain and really warm temps today but this weekend for sure and next weeek should be prime

yes thats the one by kriegers, I live outside of dewitt and have found them there on the south side near the railroad tracks. found 2 today small greys north of clinton on a hillside by the river.

you found two today... what were they by, how tall were they really fresh like they come up last night or early this mourining.

2 very small fresh greys, just over an inch, by 2 fresh shedding elms. this weekend should be good but next week should be hitting great.

Is that where you were looking? I've heard that's a good place...big too, so you don't feel like everyone goes there, haha.

That's the one...I've looked there in the past but no luck. I know the name Waack but don't know anyone personally. I was a Tague before I got married (CHS class of 01'). I think I will go looking next weekend and maybe the weekend after depending on how things turn out at first. Last year was sucky where I looked, but the weather was to blame. Not this year, unless the neighbors grab em' first, we'll be ready.

yeah i am going to go look around a lot tommrow wed the 23rd in illinois i will be in dewitt this weekend i am going to go looking around a lot of places also. I usually find a lot i didnt get to go last year because of the militry but the year befoer i found about 20 pounds and the year before that me and my buddy looked all day and found a good back end of truck bed full... those were all found down in outtmwa iowa. i have a farm down there 1200 acres of rolling hills and a hill that goes on for ever we call it mushroom hill cause they are all over the place. you can look all day and just keep picking but i need to find some this year i am going crazy. My last name is Irish but the girl i am dating is from dewitt thats her last name...

Lets hear of everyone else finding in iowa and illinois where and how many

Found a few corn kernel size greys yesterday, must have just broke soil. Hopefully I will make it back this weekend to collect them. Couple counties away in Jones.

Going out today for a couple of hours since we got that rain and it has been really warm out the last couple days and nice and humid. Ill let everyone know what i find

so i went out today for about an hour and a half and looked in all the promising spots everywhere. Didnt find a one. There not out yet dont let anyone tell you that they are unless you find them because there not at least where i am from there not it is dam close though i would say should be this weekend and for sure next week should be prime...

I live in Dewitt and looked all over the park yesterday and didn't find a thing. Is there anywhere else to look around there? We only moved there a year ago. HELP PLEASE!!!!

Found 105 morels 2" to 3" just south of Nebo Illinois, on the 19th and another 25 on the 21st, All except 2 were on the west side of a hill, mostly all greys, and few blacks,

Hi all from the qc I have been out every other day around the big parks and found nothing not even a bud. I have been searching since the end of march HELP........

I think we're in for a late late morel season. There has been very little activity around this area and the hot spots are not seeing hardly any, if any morels yet. I truly don't think we've had enough warm days yet. Remember, it only started getting above the 40's a couple weeks ago. We stayed in the cold spell for quite awhile. Don't give up hope, they will come. I'm thinking the first week of May up until Mother's Day will be prime time. Most of the reports coming in near the QC area are reports of tiny mushrooms, no yellows yet. I'd give it another week, but don't give up hope, looking early and often is key.

I hear ya about not having the right amount of warm weather yet but this is killing me..lol..I'm in the Iowa City area and have not found anything at all.Nor has anyone else I have talked with.Well I have heard of 1 or 2 but only about fingernail size.I want the goods and now..lol

Went out yestuday the 27th found nothing. So we are defiently going to have a late season. warm weather coming this week so hopefully they will be coming up soon

This impending doom of a frost is creeping me out. It is so cold and windy and nasty today, it's more like February than April, LATE APRIL! Curse you global warming! I am hoping we can recover from this, it seems that Iowa (besides FORT MADISON apparently) is about the only state that has gotten the shaft regarding the morels.

yeah well i have been looking in iowa and illinois and neither sates have hown anyhing yet and i look hard too so i know they are not there yet i have not looked today though going to go look tommrow...

let me know if anyon finds anyhing

I think Friday is going to be the day

I live here in central Iowa just north of Des Moines and i found my first grays today. They were very very small but they are now popping out.

i am going to go look today so lets hope they are up i am tred of not finding anything i need to find a crap load... Well i will let everyone know how i do

we've been finding quite a few the last 2 weeks in Calhoun County, just sotuh of Nebo, Il hoping this weekend will bring a bumper crop for me , supposed to cool off for the weekend though.

Buzzsaw over at the morels.com message boards has been finding tons in Scott County Park. My husband and I are going to look tomorrow after work, maybe we'll get lucky.

They are here my friends..Iowa is soon to be the hottest spot for the next several days.Tomorrow will be awesome.I picked around 20 grays today and ran out of time.But they were in the same spots I have checked for days.So yes tomorrow will be the day.

Hi Betho glad to hear from you. Well I went out yesterday for 3 hors and didnt find not a thing and if anyone was there i would have seen foot prints but, nothing and it was behind a golf course. I must not be getting it. M y brother in law wa working he's a orken man and the residents ask him to go in there back yard and he found twelve grays nice size. He was working how does that rate.

central illinios here still pickin lil greys some yelleras tom says we r a week behind lol

hey betho found some out at scott county park tonite only 5 but found a lot of spots where other ppl got there first... so its time there out finally

Seth, ha! We were out at SCP too! Found 5 also and then it got too dark. You didn't happen to be in a white pickup were you? Buzzsaw from Morels.com got 271 today...271!!! He is pulling in hundreds a day...no wonder there is always holes. My husband and I are going to go back early next week at sunrise before work and look again. That's the only way I think it's going to happen. It's almost irritating hearing about people getting truckload after truckload and leaving a handful for the rest but I guess finders keepers huh?

no i was in a white lumina.. where you in a blue or blck cevvy or ford... But yeah i found a bunch of holes where a bunch had been picked going down to bonaparte iowa today to look on my family farm 1200 acres of fresh morels just waiting should have a truck full when i get back... last two years down there found an excess of 77 pounds a year

well been finding some here and there probably up to about 5 to 7 pounds so far.. small though none of the big ones are out that i have seen yet... Quad cites area and Bonaparte iowa area.. Also in De witt iowa... Well anyone finding any let me know...

Found first smalll greys and 2 to 3 inch yellows on friday may 2 west of Maquoketa didn't pick. Expecting rain next day. After rain on sat. went to another old spot that's been good in the past but not for a couple of years. It has a strong southern exposure. I found a real nice patch of yellows 4 to 5 inches those I picked. Still eating those tonight. Scouted on Sunday found lots of little ones. Didn't pick any! Found one group of 9 but didn't pick. Expecting rain on tomarrow (Tuesday). Went to another spot tonight that hasn't been good for 3 or 4 years. Picked enough for a meal, left the small ones, more rain tomarrow (Tues). Could be a very good year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found 2 lbs in my freaking yard....random! I live off of 18th street in bettendorf. They were all about 2-3inch grays...happy hunting.

Any word for the river bluffs along this stretch of river?

Sorry, I was in a hurry.

I got folks living in Thomson and I haven't heard how the crop is doing as of the 4th and 5th. Got rain today in Dekalb county so I'm hoping it rained some out there around Thomson and Savanna. Gonna try to hit a few areas around Savanna and Clinton. Good luck.

Not much happening where I look. I have a place in Dekalb, a spot in Kingston and a couple of parks I like to walk and have only found 2 small greys past their prime.

I have found a couple lbs. in the Iowa City area. Not yellows or grey's yet but, the half free kind and some black morels. That is a good indicator that there should be grey's and yellows there already. Unfortunatley I have been in Arkansas since May 5th. Hopefully it will be prime time when I get back. Plan on stopping in MO on the way up to see if there is anything left there.

I have found a couple lbs. in the Iowa City area. Not yellows or grey's yet but, the half free kind and some black morels. That is a good indicator that there should be grey's and yellows there already. Unfortunatley I have been in Arkansas since May 5th. Hopefully it will be prime time when I get back. Plan on stopping in MO on the way up to see if there is anything left there.

found over 120 shrooms in DBQ county. Eastern iowa. mostly greys with few larger yellows. good luck!

went out yesterday and lo and behold finally they were up, did not pick any as they were small went today to check more spots and the number had doubled since yasterdayprobley 3/4 blond and the rest grey, picked enough for supper. i am going to try letting the grow as they were small. dose any one know how long they grow for for max size i live in webster co. iowa

Let me know if the little ones you found grew any. I would like to know the truth about if they grow or pop.

Common sense would say they grow as all plants do. But experience tells me they pop and that's it. I've checked areas before where I will find a few small ones, and nothing else there, it'll rain that night I'll go out there the next day and find more and they are usually larger and were definitely not there the day before.

If they grow how do you account for finding small dried up greys and yellows when fresh ones are up in other parts of the timber??

yes they do grow the ones i have left have doubled over the last two days or better i was getting worried that some of the looked dried out, and had decided to pick them the next day, then we got about a thnth inch of rain now the dont look dried out and are some of the biggest ones there. all told i have counted and am watching about over 100 with new one poppin out the ground everyday GROW GROW GROW