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b'The PointClickFish.com Team welcomesSandro Maniaci, from F/V Tuna.com on National Geographic Channel\\u2019s hit series Wicked Tuna. He will be LIVE on the PointClickFish.com Saltwater Radio Show Thursday April 18th @ 8 PM.\\n\\n Sandro Maniaci grew up in Gloucester and has a father and an uncle who both worked in the fishing industry, so it\\u2019s not a surprise that he started fishing pretty much as soon as he could walk.\\xa0 By grade school, he was catching sunfish in a local pond, and by adolescence, his mother was taking him to the docks and watching dutifully as he cast lines for striped bass.\\xa0 About six years ago, he got an opportunity to fulfill his dream as a crew member on a tuna boat.\\n\\n Maniaci says that those who haven\\u2019t fished for bluefin probably don\\u2019t appreciate the daunting difficulty of catching them.\\xa0 \\u201cThese are tough fish,\\u201d he says.\\xa0 \\u201cThe big ones that we want somehow have managed to avoid being caught all these years, so they obviously aren\\u2019t easy to haul in.\\xa0 You can have days when you\\u2019ve got 25 or 30 of them under the boat, and none of them will bite.\\u201d\\xa0 While an ordinary sport fisherman may have the good fortune to get a big bluefin, Maniaci says that what separates the civilians from the professionals is consistency.\\xa0 \\u201cThe average guy might be able to go out and get lucky, like hitting a scratch ticket,\\u201d he says.\\xa0 \\u201cBut to catch them consistently, that takes a special set of skills.\\u201d\\n\\nWicked Tuna airs Sundays at 9 PM ET on the National Geographic Channel.'