Thread: Whats your solutions to the duck decline?

The amount of empty ponds are is staggering, and some of these ponds are in top areas.
But by the time you pay for everything it's getting out of a lot of peoples price range. Paying double+ for steel shot to what it cost for lead, licence through the roof, habitat disappearing fast (with duck numbers down because of it) and you wonder why people are just not bothering.
In the last two years numbers have dropped dramatically were we shoot, yet steel shot has saved the day. Yer right. Tui ad......