Briar patches always produced well for us. You need to get down on your hands and knees to really spot them but that system works well every where too. You will be amazed how many you overlook by staying upright. Don’t overlook hunting from creek beds looking up the hillsides. The closer you can get to their level the more you will find. Look for may apples they like to hide around them.
Just about any tree with sluffing off bark seems to produce. Elm just seem to be them most found dead tree in the woods but I’m thinking ash are taking the # 1 spot now. My theory is all rougher bark trees will produce shrooms sooner or later. I think the rough bark catch the Spores and are released when the bark slides off. Have fun and let someone know where you are hunting just in case.
P.S. don’t forget your walking stick so you can move the leaves and sticks around for a better look see. Once you find that shroom drive that stick in the ground by the mushroom and hunt the heck out of the area and the stick assures that you don’t loose that first one. I’m sure more mushrooms have been passed by than ever found.
P.S.S. Almost forgot the most important thing take take kids with you. They won’t find many on their own at first that’s why when you find one you have howl like an old hound treeing a young coon leaving the stick by it. The kids will come running like their britches are on fire giggling the whole way!
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