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song challenge: South Carolina Wahoo

01 Mar 22 - 11:43 AM (#4138082)
Subject: South Carolina Wahoo
From: keberoxu

I never knew that the Wahoo was a fish -- a big one.
A fishing crew called Red Labor caught a REALLY big Wahoo.
It's in Newsweek magazine.

Huge Wahoo Caught off South Carolina after Hour-long Battle with Fishermen


01 Mar 22 - 05:13 PM (#4138125)
Subject: RE: song challenge: South Carolina Wahoo
From: cnd

Not exactly the same, but the great Western Swing musician Bill Boyd made a song that's somewhat fitting here: Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers Wah Hoo!. See the lyrics here.

Along a similar vein, after a visit to Weldon, NC, I've recently been wanting to make a song about Jonathan Jackson, a local drunk and fisherman (in that order) who claimed to have nearly caught a massive, 198" and 4,000 lb rockfish shortly before his death in 1904. Maybe I'll be inspired to do it now


04 Mar 22 - 07:46 AM (#4138324)
Subject: RE: song challenge: South Carolina Wahoo
From: keberoxu

I believe that Stilly quoted that Wah-Hoo song
in a post within the last year or two.