Participants

Lou Gehrig’s Disease 10K Run and 5K Run/Walk in Coconut Grove helps support patients

It is called as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but it is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

OUTDOORS

South Florida outdoors notebook

Wednesday is an unofficial holiday for spearfishers and some anglers. That’s when shallow-water grouper harvest season reopens throughout the South Atlantic following a four-month closure to help protect the 11 species — gag, black, red, yellowmouth, yellowfin, tiger, scamp, red hind, rock hind, coney and graysby — from over-fishing.

Fishing

Youth group uses fishing to help keep kids on right path

The nonprofit Mahogany Youth Corporation uses fishing to keep youths in South Florida on the path to a productive, healthy life

Miami Beach Polo World Cup

Sole female competitor rides with the boys at the Miami Beach Polo World Cup

Nigerian Uneku Saliu-Atawodi is the lone female competitor of the six male teams at the Miami Beach Polo World Cup this year.

Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run

Miami runners have Boston in mind at Mercedz-Benz Corporate Run

A record crowd of 25,000 people united in Miami’s largest office party to honor those affected in the Boston Marathon.

Notebook

Runners find amusement in crowded race

“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.”

In My Opinion

Michelle Kaufman: ‘Miami runs for Boston’ at Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run

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.

South Beach Women’s Polo Cup V

Cheeki captures perfect record at South Beach Women’s Polo Cup V

Tourists visiting the beach didn’t just swim in the blue water or tan on the sand while enjoying Thursday’s perfect spring weather.

Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run

Miami Corporate Run provides bonding away from workplace

Former bike racer Alex Gutierrez satisfies his competitive itch by running these days and enjoys the camaraderie that goes along with it.

South Florida outdoors notebook

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.

OUTDOORS

South Florida fishing report

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.

OUTDOORS

Clown knifefish ‘attractive and fun to catch’

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.

Corporate Run

Officials to stress safety first for racers at Miami Corporate Run

Participants in the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run should not bring backpacks with them to the race on Thursday.

Mercedes Benz Corporate Run

Selling strategy: Outrun the boss

Curtis Mase issued a challenge to his law firm workers to increase participation in the Mercedes Benz Corporate Run.

Fishing | Vessel monitoring system proposal

Keys commercial fishers opposed to tracking

Snapper and grouper fishermen in the Keys don’t want proposed vessel monitoring systems, likening them to ‘an ankle bracelet.’

Kids Fishing Classic

Everyone’s a winner at the ‘Bob Lewis’

This year’s annual Capt. Bob Lewis Fishing Classic was converted into a youth-only event at Shake-A-Leg on Biscayne Bay.

Notebook

FWC OKs red snapper season

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 Floridians in Boston

South Florida family in Boston: ‘We saw everything’

South Florida finishers in the Boston Marathon recount their experiences from Monday’s terror-stricken race

OUTDOORS

Water levels prime for frogging

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.

Fishing report

Fishing report for April 18, 2013

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.