| The Results of the 7th Annual Young Fish Show are in for the Puget Sound Koi Club in Tacoma, Washington state. Judging Duties were handled by the husband and wife team of Pat and Larry Christiansen from the Portland, Oregon area.
Top Honors went to a 17 3/4 inch Kohaku bred by Igarashi Hiromi of nakata koi farm. The owners, Dan and Sharon Olsen of Spokane are rightfully proud of their achievement of capturing top honors. This is the first of many GC for this up and coming pair of koi kichi's.
Reserve was a showa, two class sizes down from the top koi that was incredible. owned by the President of the Puget Sound Koi Club Phil ( and Patty) Ricigiano.
Baby grand ( under 8 inches) was entered by the co-show chairs Cindy
and John Hillstrom. This kohaku with a button nose was quite the crowd pleaser.
Best in size (3rd best in the show) was a gin rin sanke owned by Phyllis and Gene Anderson of the Spokane Club. This is another couple that will be making a name for themselves.
Forgive me, as I have to add one more koi as it was my highlight. A Shiro Utsuri, best in class for size 3. Owned by Brad and Johnnita Billings, no club affiliation but avid show supporters. This koi was bred by yours truely. A gin rin Utsuri of my breeding ( not shown) took second Owned by Sue Squirers and judges award. A kumonru of my breeding took first and Spokane's Friendship award and is owned by Jo Ann and Jerry Tyler
club members and President (jerry) of the Association of N.W. Koi Clubs!
The weather prior to the show had been in the 80's a so hot for this neck of ther woods. Set up day it dropped 20 degrees and friday rained buckets (literally) I believe this may have had something to do with the smaller turn out. About 70 koi when usually we have closeer to the mid 80 and some.
The president of the club made bonsai trophy's for the top three awards, which went over well instead of the usually hardware.
The next NW Show Is the 28th in Spokane.
Thursday I did something very bad to my hip, literally crawled out of bed friday to bench. didn't sleep friday night and finished benching saturday morning. Was relieved of my duties as fish handler cause people didn't like seeing the pain and didn't sleep saturday night but was darned and determined to "enjoy" the banquet.
My thanks to Jason S who volunteered to post early next week dispite his busy schedule. Dan Blatt my previous poster is back on the internet
and has agreed to get the photo's up for me. ( thanks to both for helping out) |