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Maine and NH open up pretty much the beginning of October, with wood ducks and resident mallards the key species inland and GW teal and resident black ducks on the coast. Cape Cod is part of the MA coastal zone, so you usually get a week around Oct. 15 and the other chunk of days from...

Salmon and sea trout is generally private, trout and "coarse" fish are generally free to fish for. If you are there in May you'll co-incide with some major fly hatches on the western lakes. Game fishing is very weather dependent. Rain, followed by clouds on a southerly wind is about perfect...

It can be embarassing too. One "hen mallard" wing I sent in was identified as "Domestic, immature, female" on the sheet I got back.

There's an operation out of Lynn, the American Classic, that is a well regarded headboat. You could reach it from the Park Plaza by taxi. If you have a rental car there are good outfits in Hampton, NH (about 70 minute drive), Al Gaurons and Eastmans, and one in Ogunquit, Maine (about a 95...