K. Tran
I would like to bring to your attention the statement that Russ posted when talking about the Hoshikin jumbo Tosai that are coming in. Even though Hoshikin himself told Russ that these fish were his BEST QUALITY and his personal favorite patterns, the word TATEGOI was not used to describe these fish. Even though, if you asked the breeder, he probably would say they are as he was preparing to send these out to the mud pond for growing out to nisai. Only the VERY BEST go back to his mud ponds and very few at that. He is very selective about his high quality fish and only keeps very few. I understand there were about 100 fish in the pond these came from and Russ bought 50 of them! If you live in this area, I would strongly suggest being at Russ's tomorrow afternoon. Personally, I can't wait!!!!
Mike