Are you tired of just lounging in the southern sun and swimming in the crystal clear waters of the sea? Do you want something new and exciting? You can take part in fishing-hunting on a special felucca boat. In the Strait of Messina a special traditional type of fishing is practised by sailors “harpooners” – experts in the use of harpoons, with which they manually hunt large fish. The techniques and secrets of this fishery have been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years. This type of fishing, or rather hunting, is practised in the Strait of Messina, which offers tourists a unique ensemble of natural beauty, morphological forms, geophysical and biological characteristics and cultural traditions rarely found in other areas.
The Strait of Messina, as well as the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, are home to a huge variety of fish.
We invite you to go fishing!
The Tuna season starts in autumn, from September until the end of the swordfish hunting season. This large fish is hunted around Tropea, Pizzo and Capo Vaticano. It is also a very ancient type of fishing. There is a beach near Tropea called Tunnara, where fishermen used to land their catch and process it here. In addition to tuna preserved in olive oil, gourmet favourites include ventresca (fish belly meat), tonina (tuna spine sausage) and the famous bottarga, called tuna caviar, which must be well cleaned, salted, pressed, sandwiched between bamboo sticks and hung to dry.
After the fishing trip, it is a pleasure to savour the delicacies of the caught fish with a glass of excellent local DOC wine.
