What a first day!
We set out early this morning to see probably the most famous and the best harvest in the area. The Matsonosuke harvest!
Most people have heard of this guy, if not then please read this article I wrote on him for Koi Carp Magazine earlier this year.
There were 2 ponds done today, the first being for Koi up to Sansai (3 years old) Koi that are now actually around 30months old. Then we did the Koi aged over 3 year old apart from a select few, some Sansai including one of our clients went in the main pond because it was already a massive Nisai.
As usual I got my usual place on the truck to get pictures of the fish being lifted into the containers by Toshio Sakai, who is just as unbelievable as ever. There were 2 very special Koi which were harvested out of the first pond. A Showa and a Sanke we purchased in April of this year and left them here to grow on. They both grew well. The Sanke coming out at 65cms and the Showa matching it. They were 50cms when bought. The Showa was Toshio Sakai’s very best nisai and is now his very best Sansai Showa.
