I agree with most of your points completely. Ducks are feeding more at night but they always came in to most places after legal shooting time. I quit back in the 80's when you had to race people to get to the best spots. Had very little time for years and deer hunting is so much easier. Also I like to crappie fish. I started back around 2010 with some buddies I met at the paper mill at Stevenson. We worked off midnights one morning and I went with them. Borrowed a gun and sit on the dike of their duck pond. We killed several mallards a couple of pintails and some more ducks. I went and bought me some more equipment and started back. We killed a lot of ducks until 2018 since then it has been horrible. A lot of years there is no water in peoples duck fields when the ducks first get here. I have planted for several places this year that don't have water. The people with big money enough to flood hundreds of acres have all the ducks.