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BEST CHAGOI AT

THE ALL ENGLAND

KOI SHOW

My friend Martin visited Cuttlebrook’s
Open Day last April and purchased a
winning Chagoi.

David Brown.

Last April The South East Koi Club organised a visit to
Cuttlebrook Koi Farm for their Open Day and I travelled
there with my friend Martin, who was hoping to find a
nice Chagoi – I wrote about the visit in issue 56 of
Koi Net.
MARTIN Selecting a really nice Chagoi isn’t as easy as it sounds,
particularly when you are looking at about 25 of them in
SHOWED ME a vat when other Koi keepers are leaning over, pointing
and getting in each others way in the rush to pick the
TWO FINGERS best one.
With single coloured Koi everything has to be perfect
as there is no pattern to distract the eye.
These Chagoi looked really good, they were around
40cm and at a bargain price of £125.00 and there was
a mad rush of people to buy one.

The Chagoi were being bowled up, opinions were being
shared and advice given, then the Koi were being
returned back into the vat.
My friend Martin had seen the Chagoi he wanted and
Left: was hopping from one foot to the other trying to get
Martin’s Size 4 Chagoi won close to the vat and get hold of a net, we’d agreed
Best in Special Variety at which one we thought was the best, but we kept losing
The All England Koi Show.
sight of it! Finally we netted it, got it into the basket – it
really looked superb! The body shape looked perfect,
Chagoi photograph
courtesy of Liam Bess so did the skin, the head was clean and the reticulated
of World of Nishikigoi. scales were perfect. It was bagged, boxed and later it

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