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wahoo

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Wahoo ( Acanthocybium solandri ) is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii , the wahoo is known as ono. Many Hispanic ...

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Dev was an O-ring that sealed wahoo in his body, a gasket against the leaking of that emotional oxygen now in shortened supply as a result of his sacking, his break with Suzy, and the Kandakandero curse that precipitated those two events, so then were the Art Girls.

The vast schools of bonito and mackerel, the swarms of small white squid, the pelagic jacks, the herds of tuna, the voracious wahoo and barracuda, all were gone.

She concentrated on ten or so long-haired dopers grazing near the entrance to Wahoo Public Beach.

Narrow, torpedolike fish that Pete identified as wahoo were marked the same way.

Another was the Long Island-based Wahoo, a fifty-five-foot fiberglass hull captained by fifty-five-year-old Steve Bielenda, a barrel-chested, cherubic-faced man who looked to be accordioned under his two-hundred-fifteen-pound frame.

It was equally un pretty on the Wahoo, where the crew would join Bielenda in a dressing-down of anyone foolish enough to admit enjoying the Seeker.

The grate must appear to the Wahoo divers to be loose and easily removable so that they would waste time and look foolish struggling with it.

Rather than weld it into place, they would chain it down, so that the grate would shake and the Wahoo divers would believe it was loose.

They told Nagle that they planned to leave a sign for Bielenda and the Wahoo divers, something clever and subtle that would make their point.

As the Wahoo settled over the great wreck, two crew members splashed to set the hook as close to the third-class hole as possible.

When the divers returned to the Wahoo, Bielenda and the others crowded around for the first report.

Bielenda rejected the idea, reminding them that the Wahoo was just a forty-nine-ton boat.

Chatterton pressed, asking where the Wahoo captain intended to look for the body.

No, we wont come back to Wahoo any more, We willf--your black kanaky, We will drink your goddamned saki, BUT we wont come back to Wahoo any more.

On an island the size of Wahoo the annual manoeuvres were almost as much of a territorial holiday as the Army Field Day in April.