JR,
On the west coast it used to be fairly easy to get good sankes. Showas were much more difficult and the quality was not near what you could get on the sanke. Now, it seems the oposite. I have been looking for a good two year old sanke for the past two seasons with little success. Poor patterns, thin fish, and heavy (what I call clumpy) sumi. What gives with that? Were the "stars" lost and there was no bloodline or is it just the goal of size, forcing breeders to start over again with new breeders.
