Ill be honest I have never hunted over water out of a permanent blind but it looks like fun. We do 90% field shoots up here with a little pond jumping in the afternoon sometimes just to kill time . I had 2 amazing shoots last year both on harvested pea fields, with some average shoots thru out the year ending with a terrible one in the last week that saw us only down 3 mallards. Talk about a bored retriever that day, the to good shoots really gave him a work out.