13^th ANNUAL TKFGS IMPORTED FISH SALE and SEMINARS

March 31 - April 1, 2007

Featuring special selection of Tosai bred and selected by Hijime Sakuma.

Megumi Yoshida will be returning with a very special guest koi breeder, Mr. Hijime Sakuma, a 2nd generation koi breeder from Isawa, Japan. The Sakuma family are some of the nicest and happiest people you could ever meet. Kanichiro Sakuma started breeding koi in 1965. Hajime, began running the family koi business with his brother Hitoshi when his father retired in 1990. Hijame has focused his breeding programs on Gosanki, Shiro Utsuri, and Gin Rin varieties. They have about 25 mud ponds ranging from 100 square meters to 1,000 square meters in size with most in the Niigata area. Some were damaged in the 2004 earthquakes but they had just completed their fall harvest a few days before and all their koi were saved from the disaster that affected many other koi breeders in the Niigata area. 

Shown left to Right Hitoshi, Hijame, Kanichiro, Ray & Martha Jordan and Kiyoko Sakuma 

Sakuma koi have won numerous top awards including Grand Champions at local and district shows in Japan and also at other top koi shows held all around the world. His parent koi are a mixture of Dianichi, Matsunoske, and Omosaka bloodlines, and also Sakuma 2^nd generation bred koi. 

Mr Sakuma will be selecting and reserving about one hundred of his best one year old baby koi to bring to Texas, March 31 - April 1, 200y. This is a very unique special opportunity to select the koi of your dreams directly from their Japanese koi breeder. More important this is a opportunity to talk about potential koi development with the person that knows best what to expect – the breeder himself. 

Mr. Sakuma and Mr. Yoshida will be donating these beautiful show quality koi for our special club raffles during this event. (Must be present to win)

Donated and bred by Hijime Sakuma especially to donate to our event. This is a very high quality jumbo two year old female Showa with excellent body conformation and near perfect kohaku pattern with brilliant red, white, and high quality  black that is starting to emerge. She is 55cm (22 in.) in length at 18 months of age has the potential to grow well over 30 in. Valued at $3,000.

Will be raffled at 3:00pm on Saturday, March 31. Must be present to win.

Selected/donated by Megumi Yoshida especially for our event. This is a high quality three year old female Gin Rin Goshiki bred by Hiroi. She has excellent body conformation and a very nice kohaku pattern with goshiki edging. She has strong Gin Rin scalation that is hard to see in photo. She is 48cm (19 in.) in length at 18 months of age. Valued at $2,000.

Will be raffled at 1:00pm on Sunday, April 1. Must be present to win.

Mr. Sakuma & Mr. Yoshida will be giving koi seminars both days along with other speakers covering the gamut of selecting and growing koi.  In addition Mr. Yoshida will be bringing hundreds of additional show and pond quality koi of all types and varieties. From many of Japan’s top breeders. Prices for pond quality baby koi start at $20 and show quality koi begin at $100 for 1 year old koi.  

As usual there will be a koi judging contest on Saturday. For those of you that purchased $100 koi last year for the koi growing contest and we will raffle two high quality koi donated by Mr. Sakuma and Mr. Yoshida. The annual Yoshida Koi Growing contest will continue this year but instead of returning live koi bought at last years sale this will become a koi photo contest. Please click on this link for more information about the growing contest for 2007 or go to www.texaskoi.com and click on the link for the 2007 fish sale/seminars.  http://www.texaskoi.com/2006fishsale/yoshida_growing_contest_rules_fo.htm

12:00 pm " Water Quality" Dr. Ron Malone, LSU

2:00 pm "Koi Breeding in Japan and 2007 All Japan Show Photos" Megumi Yoshida & Hijime Sakuma

3:00 pm Fish Raffle Drawing and Koi Judging Contest

Sunday, April 1: Events open at 10:00 am and close at 4:00pm

Sunday Seminar Schedule

12:00 pm "Koi Breeding in Japan and 2007 All Japan Show Photos" Megumi Yoshida & Hijime Sakuma (repeat of Saturday program)

1:00 pm Fish raffle drawing 

LONG FIN KOI: Also featuring local long fin koi breeder Vance Schultze selling some of his best baby and older long fin koi. Vance breeds longfins some of the finest longfins found in the U.S. from the original Japanese breeder brood stock of A. Suda to produce Kohaku, Sanke, Showa, Utsuri, Kujaku, Ogon, Hawiwaki, Asagi, Hajiro's and a few others. Vance will most likely be bringing mostly baby long fins costing about $35. He is also planning to bring some larger and better show quality long fins starting at about $100 and higher. Vance will also be donating $50 worth of long fin koi in both Saturday & Sunday raffles. Must be present to win fish raffles.

GOLDFISH: Also Mike Christenson who owns a fish farm in Louisiana will be selling a mixture of goldfish that he breds and imports.  All imports will be quarantined for at least 6 weeks and probably for longer than that.  A brief list of some of the varieties that will likely be available are: Orandas; purple, blue, red, red caps, maybe some calico, and possibly a few panda Ranchus; at least a few calico, Lionheads, Possibly some assorted bubble eyes or dragon eyes and Pearlscales. The majority of the fish will be babies in the 2-3" range and will likely be priced at $7.50 each or 4 for $25.  He will also have a few larger fish at 4-5" or so that will probably be in the $15-$30 range. Mike will also be donating $50 worth of gold fish in both Saturday & Sunday raffles. Must be present to win fish raffles.