Spores are not spread by carrying your mushrooms in a mesh bag.
Most videos and forums you watch Or read about morels are about 50% accurate and 50% misinformation that gets passed around over the internet, and the spore spreading rumor is part of the pseudoscience.
Just a guess, But I have to believe at least some of the bugs held within the morels drop out with a mesh bag and they do probably keep your mushrooms in decent shape while you move around the woods. I agree that a basket type of carrying vessel would be best.
guywhofishes, I’m jealous. This is the worst year I’ve had by a long shot since I first started looking 15 years ago or so. My last 5 or 6 years were unreal to the point I’m surprised I didn’t get sick from eating morels three times a day for three weeks.
Did you guys get all the moisture we didn’t get this year perhaps? We’ve had like two or three showers here since March maybe.
I brought my grand total to 31 morels found in about 15 hours of searching this season, and about 1/3 of them were already to old and dried up...so much so that I probably could have put them in a mesh bag and spread spores with them!