A look at outdoors events in South Florida

Excavator, skippered by Brandon Mullar of Duck Key, took the runner-up spot with 10 sails. Third-place Owl's Nest and fourth-place Lights Out each got eight, but Owl's Nest leads on time.

The top three boats fished live baits suspended from kites in a packed fleet that hugged a north-south color change off Middle Sambo Shoal. The depths of the bites varied throughout the day with the movement of the blue-green current edge.

''The whole fleet was there, rigger to rigger,'' Owl's Nest captain Matt Tambor of Miami Beach said. ``Kites were tangling up, fish jumping everywhere. It kept getting tighter and tighter and tighter. I had words with a couple of my friends.''

Get Lit ''picked here and there'' for most of the day, captain Quinton Dieterle said, releasing its final fish at 2:07 p.m. with nearly 1 ½ hours to go before lines-out.

''It was killing us at the end. We just couldn't get a bite,'' Dieterle said.

But none of the rest of the 77-boat fleet could overcome the leaders as the bite slowed. A total of 216 sails were caught and released.

• Registration is open for Competition Tackle's 13th annual Dolphin Round-up (June 1-28). ''Dolphin Dash for Cash'' one-day tournaments will be held May 17 and 24. Entry is free for the Dolphin Dash if registered by May 16. Entry fee for the Round-up is $175 for a team of four. Call 954-581-4476.

• Bass Busters will hold silver- and gold-division tournaments Saturday and Sunday on Lake Okeechobee at Clewiston. Entry fee for the silver division Saturday is $60 per team ($100 per team for gold division Sunday). Visit bassbustersflorida.com.

High Standard is in fifth place with seven sails. The sixth-through-10th-place boats -- Vitamin Sea Too, Bipolar, EZ Rider, On Belay and Rock Star -- each has six.

Fishing for a share of $1.6 million in prize money continues Thursday, followed by an off day Friday and the final round Saturday. Eighteen of the 77 teams are competing for points in the final leg of the Sailfish Pro Series, where the top six advance to a playoff in Miami Beach in May.