Snook season re-opened Wednesday in Atlantic waters, and although many of these tricky line-sided fish tend to head deep into canals and rivers during the winter months, anglers are having success in the inlets.

&bull;&nbsp; <span class="bold">The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission</span> meets Tuesday through Thursday in Midway, outside Tallahassee.

Captain Jimmy Rhodes has been fishing the backcountry rivers, creeks and bays of Everglades National Park since the 1950s. And Rhodes has been guiding anglers to quality fish in those waters since earning his U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license in the mid-1980s. But he’s not really that keen on catch-and-release gamefishing.

<span class="bold">Charlie Corbin</span> out of Slim’s Fishing Camp in Belle Glade reported largemouth bass in the 8- to 9-pound range are being caught on live wild shiners. Best action has been in the pockets along the outside edges of the grass line in the areas of Ritta, Pelican and Kramer Islands. Fishing with spinner baits, flipping jigs and casting soft plastics over the grass is working on smaller bass. Speckled perch action has been good with a lot of fish eating live minnows and small jigs in the dynamite holes and around Tree Island.

On the morning after Sunday’s successful ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon, race officials began work on next year’s event.

Through a trying weekend of fishing, the crew of Get Lit — skippered by Quinton Dierterly — persevered to win the Mayor’s Cup Tournament in Coconut Grove and a hefty $54,170 bounty.

The closest — and largest — ING Miami Marathon ended with

Tesfaye Sendeku Alemayehu was en route to shattering the half marathon time until following the marathoners’ course.

• For Swedish runner <span class="bold">Anders Forselius</span>, Sunday’s race was part of his own marathon mission. Forselius has run six races since Jan. 1, and his goal is to run a marathon in all 50 states. Sunday marked his 22nd state. Three years ago a friend of his lost her 22-year-old son to a viral infection. Forselius runs each race with the son’s ashes in a pouch wrapped around his waist. “It was her idea and I told her I would do it,” said Forselius, who finished in 3 hours 37 minutes. “At first I was going to bike the states with his ashes. But I decided to do marathons instead.”

In the closest finish in ING Miami Marathon history, Samuel Kipkosgei Malakwen of Kenya outkicked Teferi Bacha Regasa of Ethiopia to win the marathon Sunday in an unofficial time of 2 hours 16 minutes 55 seconds.

American sailors captured medals in four of 10 classes in the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta.

Releasing only 66 sailfish on a single day in a fishing tournament is small number, and poor conditions are mostly to blame for a sluggish start to first day of the Mayor’s Cup held at Monty’s Raw Bar in Coconut Grove.

Runners, start stretching.

It didn’t take long for Marlene Persson to realize she was going to be the women’s winner in Saturday morning’s Tropical 5K race that started at Watson Island and ended at South Point Park in Miami Beach.

Four Floridians are among six disabled sailors who won berths on the U.S. Paralympic Sailing Team on Friday at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Biscayne Bay.

Two groups of explorers hooked up last Tuesday in the middle of the Everglades after separate weeklong paddling expeditions that began on opposite ends of the region.

A final showdown awaits three Paralympic classes Friday and 10 Olympic classes Saturday at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, which has, thus far, provided sailors with four days of sublime sunshine and satisfying winds. The event is the only one of seven ISAF Sailing World Cup events to grace a shore on this continent and has attracted 529 sailors from41 countries from as close as Canada and as far away as New Zealand and China.

Frankie Ruiz survived challenges in his race’s first nine years.

The water was powdery blue-green as captain Jimmy Gagliardini cruised Marathon’s offshore waters on a recent weekday morning, trying to locate fish for Jason Casey and I.

Not only did Ryan Hall’s legs feel heavy, but his heart was heavy, too, in the autumn of 2010 when his running career seemed to have stalled.