Meeting/Field Trip at 1:30pm
This will be our 12h annual trip to Tank Hollow Fish Farm in Poteet, TX owned by club members Ruth Ann & Vance Schultze. This is usually one of our best attended meetings/events. Vance has been a commercial fish breeder for over 25 years. Vance raises catfish, bream, and bass for stocking private lakes and farm tanks. Vance became interested in breeding goldfish and most recently long fin koi in the past ten years. He is currently shipping long fin koi all across the U.S. and into Canada. Vance & Ruth Ann will give us a tour of their facilities and we plan to pull up some baby koi to view.
Ruth Ann raises water lilies and other aquatic plants for her wholesale aquatic plant business. Because of their greenhouses there are sure to be lots of plants in bloom. If you would like to take advantage of this rare opportunity to buy some water plants direct from Ruth Ann you must call in advance as it takes time to pull and prep them for purchase. Phone # 830-742-4148. They can be ordered potted or bare root.
You will also enjoy looking at Vance’s High Quality Japanese Long Fin Koi Brood fish that are definitely producing some very special babies. Vance has some of the premier Long Fin Koi in America. If you are interested you will want to take advantage of the opportunity to buy some very nice Long Finned Koi. Vance will have koi for sale of almost any size and price range.
We suggest you wear comfortable shoes and bring lawn chairs for yourselves.
Directions to Tank Hollow Farms: Take Highway 16 South from San Antonio to Poteet, TX. As you enter Poteet you will see a VFW hall on the right side of the road turn right to FM 476. Go three miles then turn left on FM 1333. Go two miles and follow the Tank Hollow Signs on the right. Phone # 830-742-4148.