| No no not at all Doug! Kent asks a good question.
Maybe he's thinking of Yoshida? He was down your way back then. Kamihata and the 'now criminal' Axelrod were giving a go at breeding koi among the fish farms of Florida. I imagine that Paul bought from Joel in the late seventies or through Yoshida direct back then?
I have a great picture of a hageshiro I bought from Paul back in the late eighties- I'll have to scan it and post it for you.
Anyway, back on subject, there is a huge differences in practices between the breeder community and the dealer community. Some say it goes back to the country carp breeding/farmer communities of the mountains vs. the fish mongers that came up from the city to buy the carp for city dwellers. A natural dependent relationship but strained at times over prices and cultural differences. The city mouse and the country mouse, all over again- an old story! JR |