The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for a race in downtown Miami late Thursday afternoon — bright blue sky, 79 degrees, gentle breeze blowing in off the bay, and surprisingly little humidity for this time of year.
“Last year, I ran with the pack and I got bumped around,” Gonzalez said. “But this year I decided to start at the back. I don’t mind giving 25,000 people a head start.”
Tourists visiting the beach didn’t just swim in the blue water or tan on the sand while enjoying Thursday’s perfect spring weather.
Former bike racer Alex Gutierrez satisfies his competitive itch by running these days and enjoys the camaraderie that goes along with it.
It’s National Park Week through Sunday, which means free admission to Everglades National Park. For details on special activities, go to www.nps.gov/EVER.
Local anglers Gerard Marcy and Etienne Peters fished aboard the Frick and Frack with captain Freddie David and released 17 out of 25 sailfish. They also had a limit of kingfish to 42 pounds, bonitos and schoolie dolphins. The action was offshore of Miami Beach, and live threadfin herring was the hot bait. Captain Orlando Muniz of Nomad Fishing Charters reported fishing offshore of Miami has been awesome. His clients have had steady action from sailfish, kingfish to 36 pounds, blackfin tuna and bonitos on the surface. His anglers have had mutton and vermillion snappers while working the bottom. During night charters his anglers are having plenty of action from tarpon, jacks and ladyfish.
Of the 23 established species of exotic freshwater fish in Florida, the clown knifefish has got to be one of the most intriguing. With a flat silvery body and black spots ringed with white, the creature is both eye-popping and sporty. Like a tarpon from a distant universe, it jumps high out of the water when hooked and uses its long, undulating anal fin to swim backwards when you try to net it.
Participants in the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run should not bring backpacks with them to the race on Thursday.
Curtis Mase issued a challenge to his law firm workers to increase participation in the Mercedes Benz Corporate Run.
Snapper and grouper fishermen in the Keys don’t want proposed vessel monitoring systems, likening them to ‘an ankle bracelet.’
This year’s annual Capt. Bob Lewis Fishing Classic was converted into a youth-only event at Shake-A-Leg on Biscayne Bay.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, defying its federal counterpart, has approved a 44-day recreational red snapper harvest season in Gulf of Mexico state waters out to nine miles from shore, beginning June 1 and ending July 14. NOAA Fisheries is recommending a 21-day season for federal waters past nine miles.
South Florida finishers in the Boston Marathon recount their experiences from Monday’s terror-stricken race
Dave Shealy is best known as the keeper of the legend of the Everglades’ mysterious skunk ape. The 49-year-old South Florida native has built a pretty good business around his Skunk Ape Research Headquarters located on Tamiami Trail about 60 miles west of Miami. Shealy has appeared on several television programs dedicated to tracking down the stinky, gorilla-sized creature and its more famous cousin, Big Foot. He displays a plaster cast of the ape’s purported footprint at his souvenir shop/mini-zoo/campground and sells T-shirts and instruction books on hunting and baiting the animal to vanloads of tourists who stop by daily.
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Captain Rick Thomas from the Thomas Flyer Charter boat out of Bayside Marina reported offshore fishing from Government Cut south to Pacific Light has been good especially when there has been a good north current. Dolphins have been feeding along the Gulfstream’s edge, large kingfish are eating ballyhoo, live baits and vertical jigs just outside the reef, sailfish are migrating through the area and an assortment of jacks are holding over the deep-water artificial wrecks.
Expect tighter security at next week’s Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run through downtown Miami.
Next week, more than 25,000 are expected to gather in downtown Miami for the Miami Corporate Run. Organizers expressed their shock at Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing.
The heartache’s name might be terrorism, an evil plot of many, or the heartache might spring from a single deranged mind at work in a movie theater, or in an elementary school. The heartache might claim thousands of innocent lives or it might claim dozens or it might claim two, but, no matter the particulars, here we were once more on Monday, America, doing what we do:
You may not know much about or have even heard of the Broward County Cowboys, but they are South Florida’s own semipro football team.
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