Alicia Kelley from the Kelley Fleet out of Haulover Marina reported limit catches of king mackerel are being made on their three party boats.

South Florida Freedivers will hold their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at Scotty's Landing in Coconut Grove. For information, call Mike Schmidt at 305-491-7244.

The leaderboard shifted again Wednesday after three races of Bacardi Cup 2010 on Biscayne Bay.

It is really hard to gaze into the huge saltwater aquarium at ``The Seas'' pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot without wishing mightily to jump in and swim with all those creatures.

Day two of Bacardi Cup 2010 saw a shake-up in the leader board after two races among the fleet of 84 Star-class sailboats on Biscayne Bay.<p/> Skipper Rick Merriman of New York City and crew Phil Trinter of Charlottesville, Va., advanced from fourth to first Tuesday with a runner-up finish behind Brazil's Lars Grael and Ronald Seifert, now in sixth-place overall. Merriman and Trinter have a seven-point lead over second-place Andy Horton and James Lyne, both of Vermont.

Veteran South Miami Star skipper Augie Diaz, 55, and crew Bruno Prada took Monday's opener of the 83rd Bacardi Cup on Biscayne Bay -- the signature event of Miami Sailing Week, which runs through Saturday.

It wasn't conditioning that enabled Bryan Sharkey to win the 13.1 Marathon Miami Beach on Sunday morning.<p/> Sharkey, 22, of Pinecrest, surged the last mile for a come-from-behind win to finish in 1 hour 13 minutes 44 seconds, just 30 seconds ahead of Dr. Rebecca Robinson, 27, a tourist from England.

A proposal by Everglades National Park to study new ways of marking navigation channels in Florida Bay has some fishing guides and anglers worried.

Saturday marked a personal sailfish release record for captain Quinton Dieterle, and his seven-member team on Get Lit is well on its way to winning a big cash purse Sunday.

Some changes are in store for the 2010 Yamaha Contender Miami Billfish Tournament that runs March 25-28 at Miami Beach Marina.<p/> Tournament director Judy Layne said the board of directors has decided to eliminate the requirement for photo/video verification of billfish releases, relying instead on polygraph examinations and eyewitness statements.

CHOKOLOSKEE -- Florida's snook fishery, decimated by January's extended cold wave, is expected to remain closed until September to give the stocks a chance to recover.

Captain Quinton Dieterle from the Cutting Edge Charter Boat out of Crandon Park Marina reported a hot bite from tailing sailfish in 100 to 150 feet of water off of Key Biscayne.

Captain John Louie Dudas piloted Wound Up to first place and $57,500 in the captain Bob Lewis Billfish Challenge on Sunday.

You could wait for the southerly spring migration along the southeast Florida coast to catch a tarpon. Or you could do it now.<p/> Tarpon of all sizes are patrolling the beaches from Haulover Inlet south to Government Cut -- mainly at night. Hollywood light-tackle guide captain Gavet Tuttle has been successful at intercepting them all winter just south of Haulover while drifting live shrimp. Last week, when water temperatures hovered around 68 degrees -- far from optimum -- Tuttle still managed to score two hook-ups and one release for charter customer John O'Neill of Saratoga, N.Y. in a four-hour trip.

Facing intense pressure locally and abroad, the Bahamas Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources last week issued a statement saying it will not permit net fishing in its waters. The Bahamas government was besieged by e-mails from sportfishermen and conservationists in the U.S. and its own country over the past couple of weeks urging the denial of a commercial fishing permit requested by two Bahamian brothers to use purse seines to catch yellowfin tuna. The statement from the Ministry, posted on TheBahamasWeekly.com last week, reads ``this method of fishing could result in the possible depletion or significant reduction of the fishing stocks in Bahamian waters. Having regard to the importance of sportfishing to the Tourism industry, the Government takes the position that purse seine or net fishing will not be permitted in the Bahamas.'' The statement goes on to say that Bahamas fisheries laws will be amended to prohibit the gear.

Think Iditarod minus dogs and sleds and you get the Ultimate Florida Challenge that begins Saturday on Tampa Bay.<p/> Competing for a top prize of a shark-tooth necklace, eight men will mount a month-long, 1,200-mile, counter-clockwise circumnavigation of the Sunshine State by canoe, kayak or small sailboat.

Nestled in the center of Southwest Florida's vast wilderness -- but only a two-hour drive from Miami-Dade and Broward counties -- is a unique jewel that has been dubbed ``Florida's Amazon.''

Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Dania Beach will hold a free Spring Fishing Classic from Friday through March 14. The event includes a reel trade-in, seminars with top freshwater and saltwater pros, children's events and prize contests. Visit basspro.com/classic or call 954-929-7710.

Captain Ryan McBride of Conched Out Sportfishing Charters reported a great swordfish bite taking place along the South Florida Coast.

Joe Mennine and Ismael Vasquez, co-workers from Jupiter, were tooling down an Everglades canal in an airboat Monday when Vasquez saw a distinctive black-blotched snake, about five feet long, on the levee.