CP, let us know what setup you went with, the wind direction and how the birds responded. I know I'd find it educational. We're faced with a similar situation tomorrow morning.
Will do Bill - I'm bringing 15 mallard floaters, 6 Avian's on a stick, 4 goose floaters, and a wind duck.
Well, this didn’t go exactly as planned. The pond was bigger and deeper than I expected, with steep banks that were mostly inaccessible. So decoy placement was restricted to where I could get to the bank and no further out than I could reach with a decoy pole. No place to put full bodies or the wind duck. Ended up hunting alone as well so I just packed in a dozen floaters and put them along the bank about 10 yards to the right of the blind.
Ended up more like the pic below with the birds mostly following the red track and landing out of range in the red circles. The pond is about 50 yards across so this offered some good shots on birds flying left to right about 25 yards out. Not ideal, but it didn't suck either.
