Document fishing in Santa Teresa di Gallura: caught a 220 kilo tuna

(ANSA) – SANTA TERESA DI GALLURA, JUNE 17 – “It was a combat that lasted greater than two hours, however once we lastly managed to hoist this specimen onto the boat it was a really robust emotion”. Mattia Giovannini, 38 years outdated, from Romagna from Cesena who has now moved to Santa Teresa Gallura for twenty years, has a voice stuffed with adrenaline: an novice sport fisherman, this morning he ‘fought’ towards the most important bluefin tuna amongst these caught in his whole profession. A specimen weighing 220 kilos and measuring two and a half meters hooked on his rods, a few miles from the port of Santa Teresa. “I used to be within the firm of two visitors, father and son on vacation in Gallura, who in the present day had booked the fishing expertise with my novice affiliation ‘A pesca col matto’ – Giovannini tells ANSA – We had been trolling with bait alive, when this tuna unspooled our reel thrice. We needed to combat a bit to catch it. I had guessed that it was a big specimen, however I by no means thought it might be of this measurement. I am nearly positive it’s of one of many largest bluefin tuna ever caught in these waters”. Together with his sports activities affiliation Giovannini brings vacationers and fanatics to expertise the fun of a fishing journey, whereas respecting the ocean and its ecosystem. “This glorious sea of ​​ours, which I fell in love with a lot that I made a decision to lift my household right here in Santa Teresa and to rework my ardour for fishing into an exercise that offers me a residing, should be preserved exactly as a result of it’s able to giving us fish just like the one caught this morning”, explains the fisherman who together with his affiliation brings dozens of individuals to sea yearly, all yr spherical even through the winter interval, however who in the present day gave a singular expertise to that couple made up of father and son who was on the boat with him. “Catching a 40 or 50 kilo tuna is gorgeous and thrilling, however being confronted with such giant specimens turns into one thing to speak about for a lifetime”, concludes the 38 yr outdated from Romagna who will resume his fishing journeys within the waters at off Santa Teresa Gallura. (HANDLE).