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The day before yesterday we went up to an area near Mill City where my brother had found a bunch of chanterelle mushrooms. We found a bunch more and filled my basket up in probably 30 minutes or so. Had to exercise some serious self control to not start stuffing our hats, pockets, shirts. We brought home some 12 pounds of them. Best day of chanterelle picking I've ever had - better than hunting easter eggs when I was a little kid! :dance::dance::dance:
Here is a photo of them:
I thought we would need some trout to go with some of these. The next day we tried a lake on the other side of the Willamette Valley, but we just caught one 13" Cut and then a little SM Bass we tossed back. But the trout was enought for my wife to share it with me (who caught it by the way) She also found a couple of more chanterelles in the woods while I was loading up the canoe to go home. But we were already stocked to the gills with the shrooms we found yesterday, so we gave these to a fisherman close by and he got excited too :dance:. It was a slow day catching fish, so I bet he took a stroll up in the woods to find more after we left.
The only people I find that are more secretive than fisherment about secret spots are mushroomers. So I can't tell you any more than it was in the area around Mill City in a mature Douglas Fir Forest. That should narrow it down to a 10 mile radius!
If I tell you more I'll have to shoot you, then be shot for telling 
So all week it's, "Whats for dinner tonight? Chantrelles? again!"
Here is a photo of them:

I thought we would need some trout to go with some of these. The next day we tried a lake on the other side of the Willamette Valley, but we just caught one 13" Cut and then a little SM Bass we tossed back. But the trout was enought for my wife to share it with me (who caught it by the way) She also found a couple of more chanterelles in the woods while I was loading up the canoe to go home. But we were already stocked to the gills with the shrooms we found yesterday, so we gave these to a fisherman close by and he got excited too :dance:. It was a slow day catching fish, so I bet he took a stroll up in the woods to find more after we left.
The only people I find that are more secretive than fisherment about secret spots are mushroomers. So I can't tell you any more than it was in the area around Mill City in a mature Douglas Fir Forest. That should narrow it down to a 10 mile radius!
So all week it's, "Whats for dinner tonight? Chantrelles? again!"