"..I think you over think this. Sometimes I just sit on the bare bank with my legs hanging over the bank and my dog laying next to me, as long as we don't move the ducks decoy just fine..."
On Kodiak Island, I have had goldeneyes that I jumped circle and fly back along the Olds river, near enough to shoot and kill. But IME, most shot-at ducks especially puddlers, will be pretty wary thereafter. But I did enjoy some seaduck hunts in Kodiak where I could shoot from a stationary large boat once in a while and connect on oldsquaw and a few others.
