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<br /> <br /> Mercury® Verado®<br /> ©Mercury Marine<br /> <br /> On the Cover:<br /> Contents<br /> Photography by Pat Ford ­<br /> www.patfordphotos.com<br /> INTERNATIONAL ANGLER October/November/December 2013 Volume 76 Issue 4<br /> 24 Pursuing the ROYAL QUEST 32 Scientific Angling<br /> Spontaneous Billfishing Yields Bringing Sport to Game Fish Studies<br /> Unimaginable Rewards By IGFA Representatives Ken Neill, III, Ph.D.<br /> By Chris “Kitt” Toomey and Brett Cannon Scott Tindale and Kirill Kuzishchin, Ph.D.<br /> 38 Essential Ways to<br /> Rig Soft Plastics:<br /> IGFA School of Sportfishing<br /> Tips & Tactics<br /> Departments<br /> 6 President's Message<br /> 10 Conservation Notes<br /<a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=1"> </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=2"> Mercury® Verado® </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=3"> </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=4"> </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=5"> ©2011 Fin-Nor, a W.C. 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NOTES For more information or to sen</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=13"> Expressing Concerns With IGFACatchlog App Pilot </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=14"> CONSERVATION NOTES For more information or to sen</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=15"> is restricted within the country's modified m</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=16"> CONSERVATION NOTES For more information or to sen</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=17"> proximately 6500 square kilometers des- ignated a</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=18"> IGFA SPECIES PROFILE For more information or to s</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=19"> </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=20"> INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE NEWS Ramiro Ortiz – Nicar</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=21"> NEW REPRESENTATIVES Serdar Günseren – Izmir, TUR</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=22"> IGFA EVENTS ‐ IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame Induction</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=23"> IGFA EVENTS Join us in Naples, Florida, USA for </a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=24"> 24 INTERNATIONAL ANGLER OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBE</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1eda138?page=25"> T he IGFA's Bil</a> <a title="OctNovDect2013_web2 page 26" 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