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Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Rombold As good as Toshio Sakai is, I have the advantage here. These are my fish after all. I form my opinions slowly, and have watched this bloodline mature for years. This I know, these fish are unique. You can't come to that opinion by seeing a single set of photographs for the first time. They are not the entire package, but there are good elements that can be extracted and recombined into something even better. It's the process towards a goal that is the point of the thread. Not where we are now, but an endless point on the horizon. Every person's opinion is valuable and only God has the last word. Well him, my wife and then of course my daughter. I'll post some photos later of the parent sets, and then let's put this thread to bed and see what we are looking at next year.

Let's put it this way Richard, if you were in Japan and at the top of your game there I wouldnt be surprised to see Toshio Sakai at an auction of yours buying fish...

Toshio knows what he wants out of his fish and so do you. Maybe Toshio didnt see those heavy pattern fish he is so well famous for selling in your culling bowl.