Ok, I wasn't going to chime in on my opening day experience but how can I resist? First off, I spent an afternoon building a blind (pallets, posts, dog ramp, blind material...) about a week before the opener. Nice spot over a marsh on an Island. The opener comes, I paddle out about 1.5hrs before legal shooting time with my hunting partner (wife) and my yellow lab (first hunt for her after months of training). I get all the deks set up, just sitting in the blind waiting for legal time...and it happens. I see a headlamp coming through the woods, marching out to a pennisula 50 yards in front of my blind. I have a 1,000,000 candle power spot light just for this reason. I light him up about 12 times letting him know I'm there, I light up his dog as well. Legal shooting comes and birds are flying, I see no decoys deployed by this guy and I hear no calling, so he must have moved on to another spot. Then I get 2 geese flying over, I'm calling them and working them, they make 3 passes, each time getting lower. The final pass, they are locked up, below tree level coming in and BANG...this guy pops up and shoots one! My wife says "what the f**k, are you kidding me" and I had to agree! The guy shows up to the edge of the water in his blue-jeans and his dog that wont go in the water after it! I couldn't help it, I was so pissed, I had a couple exchanges with they guy about seeing my set up, the spot light, you don't set up on top of another hunter like that, no calls around his neck, no decoys deployed, and for cryin' out loud....get some friggin' waders and train your dog!!! Every season I run into some a-hole who does this! After he shot his goose and his dog "nudged" it back to shore, he left. My wife and I proceeded to down a couple geese later and drake woody, which our lab made 3 great retrieves on (her first!). Mallards were not decoying that morning, they were acting like late season birds for whatever reason, there were other people out there and one guy just paddling around trying to jump shoot everything. It reminded me why I usually skip "opening day". For all the new duck hunters out there, 1. a spot light on you means move on, 2. don't set up within shooting distance of another hunter, you'll just be calling at the same birds, and 3. no sky-busting (shooting at birds you'll never hit and most likely cripple and educate). Ok, my rant is over.